Walter Baier
Walter Baier is an economist based in Vienna and coordinator of the transform!europe Network.
Articles by Walter Baier
Challenges of a Historic Moment
6 May 2012 is marked by two election results with historical consequences: With the election of socialist candidate, Francois Hollande, to become France’s new president to which the Front de Gauche has quantitatively and...[details]
Working Towards the Social and -Democratic Refoundation of Europe
Brussels, March 2012: Towards an Alternative European Summit[details]
Peril from the Right
Introduction1 Many serious observers hold that the crisis in Europe has not come to an end. With the restructuring of the Greek national debt and the enlargement of the European Stability Mechanism, only time was bought,...[details]
Working towards the Social and Democratic Refoundation of Europe
Brussels, March 2012: Towards an Alternative European Summit[details]
Strikes, Mobilisations and Dialogue of Political and Social Forces
It is a rather realistic estimate which Reuters put at the beginning of its report on the meeting of the EU-Council: “Europe signs up to German-led fiscal pact. Chancellor Angela Merkel cemented her political ascendancy in Europe...[details]
2012 – Year of Crisis and Resistance: Creating a New Balance of Power
Ten years after the introduction of the Euro, of which it was said that it would unite Europe, the European Union is more divided than ever both socially and economically. [details]
“Let’s Unite against the Austerity Programmes!”
Joint Social Conference and Coalition of Resistance gathered in London[details]
Joint Social Conference and Coalition of Resistance, London, Sept 30 & Oct 1, 2011
Presentations by Johannes Jäger and Steffen Lehndorff. Report by Walter Baier[details]
Bleak Progress
On Michael Löwy’s Book "Juifs hétérodoxes, romantisme, messianisme, utopie" (Heterodox Jews, Romanticism, Messianism, Utopia)[details]
Introduction
The thematic focus of this issue of our journal is the “radical right”. As examples, (radical) right-wing movements in Austria, Belgium, Finland, Greece, Ukraine and Hungary are addressed. In the lead article of this section,...[details]
The Dakar-WSF in the Wake of the Revolutions: The Maturing of the African Process
Feb 7-12, 2011[details]
"Transformation": Antonio Gramsci and Karl Polanyi
“It may be ruled out that immediate economic crises of themselves produce fundamental historic events; they can simply create a terrain more favourable to the dissemination of certain modes of thought, and certain ways of posing...[details]
On the Move to the Next World Social Forum
From May 5th to 9th, the International Council of the World Social Forum came together in Mexico City in a meeting to prepare the next edition of the World Social Forum in February next year in Dakar, Senegal. At the beginning...[details]
Only the Beginning is Always "New"
10 Years of the World Social Forum[details]
Editorial
Dear reader, The sixth issue of the transform! magazine presents a broad spectrum of texts relevant for the left discussion. The opening texts are On the Relationship Beetween Precariety and Staate Power by Judith Butler and...[details]
Seminar on Participatory Democracy and Participatory Budgets in Local Governments
On November 22 and 23, 2008 transform!, the group of the Communist Party in Bohemia and Moravia in the Prague City Hall the Czech Association SPED, which is a member of transform!, jointly organised a European seminar on...[details]
Passive Revolution and the Reform of the Revolution
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]
On the European Social Model
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]
Integral socialism and today's left
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]
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