Without a story every battle is lost”, formulated the authors of the Wu Ming group, whose name demonstrators in Rome had on their shields which protected them from the police clubs. With the naming of great authors and narratives...[details]
Conjunctural analysis is useful in many fields but has special theoretical and practical significance for critical political economy and left strategy. For the pursuit of politics as “the art of the possible” depends heavily on...[details]
Document de travail. Édité et présenté par Teppo Eskelinen[details]
The renaissance of Marxism will occur on the soil of “the globally networked brave new world of transnational high-tech capitalism”, and “as analysis, critique, alternative praxis and resistance, … Marxism as a movement will...[details]
Walter Baier est économiste autrichien, coordonnateur du Réseau Transform ! Europe. * Extraits de l’intervention prononcée lors du séminaire « Significations, sujets et espaces de transformation » organisé par Transform ! à...[details]
Extrait de l’intervention de Judith Butler à la 3e Conférence annuelle commémorative de l’Institut Nicos Poulantzas.Judith Butler est philosophe et féministe américaine, professeure dans les départements de Rhétorique et de...[details]
Moishe Postone est professeur d’histoire à l’Université de Chicago, spécialiste de l’antisémitisme moderne et de l’histoire des idées en Europe. Il réinterprète les écrits de Marx dans le cadre de l’élaboration d’une théorie...[details]
The rise of a new capitalism, the current wave of neoliberal globalisation, the success of this project of counter-reforms on the one hand and the emergence of new social movements, the attempts to form new political alliances...[details]
Gramsci certainly did not disdain the conquest of power via an assault on its palace. But his idea of revolution perhaps became a “revisionist” one as it was understood by the founding fathers, though it conceded nothing to...[details]
In November 2007, transform! organised a conference entitled “The Reform of the Revolution”. The title was chosen to convey two theoretical political objectives, namely: the reformulation of – that is, the giving new form to –...[details]
Since the beginning of the 1990s the concept of the “European Social Model” has characterised the position and perspective of official EU policy. What is the meaning of this concept? The European Commission defines the...[details]
We are concerned with societal changes which improve people’s conditions of life. “People’s conditions of life” always involve the integrity of people, their individual freedom and possible influence on social developments, their...[details]
Speech at the First Plenary Session of the Left Forum, Pace University, New York, April 17, 2009 Good evening. I would like to thank the organizers of the Left Forum for inviting me to join the distinguished members of this...[details]
Once upon a time, in a far away country, Austria, a long time ago, socialists called themselves "socialists", because they wanted to bring about a new society which was called "socialism". In Austria these...[details]