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Analysis
The Russian Extreme Right and its Relationship with the State
- Katja Woronina addresses how Russia's political power system controls and influences political and social movements or parties and how this fact affects the Russian extreme right.
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Comment
Prevented in France – Possible in Italy
- In France, more than 13 million people voted for the presidential candidate Marine Le Pen of the far-right Rassemblement National (RN). In Italy, the post-fascist party Fratelli d'Italia (Brothers of Italy) is about to take over government in a right-wing alliance with Lega and Forza Italia. How is this possible?
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Opinion
Notes on the Far Right
- Fabian Figueiredo sketches a sharp overview of how the current circumstances in Europe and the Global North, which are dominated by war, energy crises, and nationalism, are affecting the development of the extreme right.
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Comment
SOTEU - A Grandiose Sermon Oblivious to Realities Facing Working People
- How many more crises will it take for the EU to finally draw the right conclusions? This year’s State of the Union address should have been European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s apology to European citizens.
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Analysis
Sweden: Right-Wing Coalition Wins Election by the Narrowest of Margins
- With almost all votes counted from Sunday’s election, it looks like Sweden’s right-wing parties are set to take power with a razor-thin majority, ending eight years of social democratic government.
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Analysis
Traditionalism’s New Golden Age – the Far Right and Russia
- Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine has cast a light on the web of ties between influential individuals (and politicians) in Russia, Europe and the US. This not only involves oligarchs and manipulative energy tactics, but Russia’s special relationship with the far-right around the globe.
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Personal report
Diary of a Pandemic Shop Steward 2022
- When I last wrote a diary entry, it was the autumn of 2020. This was shortly before management planned to start bringing staff back to the office, despite my concerns about our workplace, not being Covid secure – but events intervened.
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Reportage
Flying and Cancer: Underestimated Risk for Flight Attendants
- The body of evidence linking the occupation of cabin crew to an increased risk of breast cancer is steadily growing. Now that there is a chance of it gaining recognition as an occupational disease, more and more trade unions and associations are engaging with the issue.
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Analysis
Sliding Further to the Right
- The Alternative für Deutschland looks chaotic and divided, but beneath the surface, its neo-fascist wing seems to be gaining the upper hand. An analysis by Gerd Wiegel.
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Declaration of the International Kurdish Solidarity Collective
- With support from NATO, the regime of the dictatorial Turkish president Erdoğan is not only continuing its war against the Kurdish people and their allies inside Turkey’s borders but is expanding it to Syria and Iraq, Sweden and Finland. The International Kurdish Solidarity Collective issued following Declaration regarding the latest attacks.
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Reportage
Dutch Port Workers Want to Retire Healthy
- Given that port workers work shifts, under high pressure and in arduous working conditions, many of them are totally worn out long before they reach pensionable age – and on average they die six years earlier. Port workers need to retire earlier if they are to enjoy a healthy old age.
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Latest update: 9/8/2022
'Pure Political Harassment and Persecution'. Walden Bello Arrested
- On Monday, 8 August, the internationaly renowned scholar and political activist Walden Bello was arrested by the Philippine police and charged with cyber-libel in a move supporters are calling an act of political repression.
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Interview
Why Russia’s Political Capitalists Went to War – and How the War Could End Their Rule
- ‘Russia’s political capitalists waged war in order to survive as a class, to continue accumulating wealth through the exploitation of the state’ – says Volodymyr Ishchenko, a research associate at Freie Universität Berlin. However, this war may equally bring about a fall or a radical transformation of the whole post-Soviet order.
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transform! europe Peace Manifesto
Stop the War! An Appeal for a Europe of Peace
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Upcoming Events
WTO Public Forum 2022
Towards a Sustainable and Inclusive Recovery: Ambition to Action
- 27 September 2022 - 29 September 2022 | Geneva
- This year's Public Forum of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) will look at how trade can contribute to post-pandemic economic recovery. The Forum will examine, in particular, how trade rules can be strengthened, and government policies improved to create a more resilient, sustainable and inclusive trading system.
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Discussion event
Brazil After the Election — Implications for Sustainability in EU-Brazil Economic Relations
- 04 October 2022 - 04 October 2022 | online
- Rosa-Luxemburg-Foundation Brussels is hosting this online discussion right after the election in Brazil to discuss the impact of the voting result on the sustainability of the economic relations between the EU and Brazil.
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Save the Date
Athens European Forum 2022
- 21 October 2022 - 23 October 2022 | Athens
- We call on all left-wing, green and progressive political forces, all peace movements, all unions and social, feminist, environmental, citizen forces, all defenders of human rights, arts, culture and knowledge to invest in the preparation of the Forum.
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Week of Action
Solidarities for Climate Justice & Justice Transition
- 18 October 2022 - 24 October 2022 | online
- Focussing on the urgency of climate change and the need for a just energy transition, AEPF will have a week of events with expert webinars and collective actions to link solidarities on climate justice.
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Systematic Foul Play: The 2022 World Cup in Qatar
The inhumane working conditions on the World Cup construction sites in Qatar have been making headlines for years, and yet hardly anything has changed.
According to estimates, around 6,500 workers from South Asia have died since construction work began.
The video was originally published on the website of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Foundation
transform! yearbook 2022
transform! yearbook 2022 looks at how left politics has been challenged by the Covid pandemic and asks what a programme of left demands for pandemic research, prevention and treatment might look like. transform! yearbook 2022 will be released in June.
The publication is available as hardcopy at Merlin Press and as eBook on the transform! yearbook website.
The Carbon Clock is Ticking
created by the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC), based on the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming.
On the connection between climate crisis, the pandemic and capitalism – we recommend:
Roland Kulke: The Pandemic as Part of a Much Broader Crisis of Civilisation
NEW RELEASE
- The study provides a broad mapping of Austrian-based multilateral cooperation, actors, and organisations that are heavily involved in EU border externalisation policies far beyond Austrian borders – and therefore in the violent and sometimes lethal...
- ‘Jak jsme se stali kolonií’ was first published in 2015. It successfully undermined the myth of the ‘transformation success’ and showed that the position of the Czech Republic in the world economy is unsustainable and disadvantageous for its...
transform! yearbook 2022
- transform! yearbook 2022 looks at how left politics has been challenged by the Covid pandemic and asks what a programme of left demands for pandemic research, prevention, and treatment might look like.
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transform! europe Podcasts
- transform! europe's online interview series "The Left Reflects" with Luciana Castellina, Alex Demirović, Nancy Fraser, Leo Panitch, Gayatri Spivak, and Hilary Wainwright now available as podcast – in cooperation with Austrian left-wing platform Mosaik.
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