Statement
End Fortress Europe!
- Ahead of the EU summit on 9-10 February, where migration policy will be high on the agenda, left-wing MEPs are calling for measures to allow people seeking safety in Europe to come to Europe in dignity.
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Analysis
No Aims, No Plan, No Success
- Jan van Aken, a former member of the German Bundestag for DIE LINKE and an expert on peace and security policy at the Rosa- Luxemburg-Foundation, reflects on the reasons why EU sanctions against Russia have failed so miserably.
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Report
Amílcar Cabral and the History of the Future
- Miguel Cardina reports from the international conference held in Lisbon to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Amílcar Cabral, the leading African anti-colonialist and thinker of the 20th century.
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Speech
"Our Challenge and Mission Over the Coming Years is to Share Knowledge to Make us Stronger!"
- Marga Ferré, Co-President of transform! europe, in her speech at the 7th Party Congress of the European Left (EL), outlined the importance of interplay between science and political activism in the struggle for social justice and peace and a feminist and ecological Europe.
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Speech
"The Left Remains Firmly United to Build a Europe That Works for the People and for the Planet!"
- This is what Martin Schirdewan, Co-President of DIE LINKE party as well as of the Left Group in the European Parliament, particularly stressed in his speech at the 7th Party Congress of the European Left (EL) in Vienna in December 2022. Read the full speech here.
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Call for Solidarity Actions With Anti-war Activists in Russia
- For over a decade, Russian antifascists have commemorated January 19 as their day of solidarity. This is the date when in 2009, in the center of Moscow, the human rights and leftist activist Stanislav Markelov and the journalist and anarchist Anastasia Baburova were gunned down by neo-Nazis.
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A Terrible Loss for DIE LINKE and the Rosa-Luxemburg-Foundation: Axel Troost Obituary
- The left-wing economist and politician Axel Troost passed away on 6 January 2023 following a short but severe illness.
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Video
A New Europe Will Be Born in the Periphery? 100 Shades of the EU
- This special episode of Cross-Border Talks is devoted to a study prepared under the auspices of transform! europe, entitled "Hundred Shades of the EU — Mapping the Political Economy of the EU Peripheries". Two of the three of our co-authors working on the study were invited to the Cross-Border Talks interview.
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Video
Russian Society After Nine Months of War: From Indifference to Resistance
- In the new episode, the Cross-Border Talks speak with Russian historian and socialist Felix Levin about Russia's social, economic and political situation. What is the attitude of Russian society towards the war in Ukraine, and why it is very difficult to trust official public opinion polls? You can see this and more in the video.
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Statement
Joint Statement on the EU- Western Balkans Summit in Tirana
- On the occasion of the Western Balkans Conference in Tirana on December 6 2022, we publish here the "Belgrade Conference Joint Statement on Open Borders: Building Alliances for the Right to Migrate!"
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Analysis
Platform Capitalism in Service to Society?
- This new form of capitalist exploitation has also firmly established itself in China
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Analysis
More Equality for More Resilience
- The year 2022 has given us a glimpse of the new world we are entering. We are witnessing the end of a long period of relative stability, prosperity and security. From now on, we will have to learn to live with uncertainty and restraint. An analysis by Christophe Degryse, Head of the Foresight Unit at the European Trade Union (ETUI).
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Comment
Peace in Rome
- On 5 November, a protest march organised by trade unions, left movements, Catholic groups, and other civil society actors took place in Rome. The giant demonstration for peace with more than a hundred thousand people is an event of enormous importance.
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Short clip by "Arab States Civil Society Organisations and Feminist Network" on the impact of climate change on women in Middle Eastern countries,
presented at the transform! europe webinar Climate Justice and Women's Participation in the Arab Region.
Upcoming Events
Call for Papers - Deadline 15 Feb 2023
Conference “100 Shades of the EU: Political Economy of the EU Peripheries Between Pandemic and War”
- 03 April 2023 - 04 April 2023 | Trieste
- We cordially invite you to submit your panel proposals for the conference "100 Shades of the EU: The Political Economy of the EU Peripheries Between Pandemic and War” organised by transform! europe in cooperation with Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung focusing on political economy of the EU seen from the peripheral perspective.
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Webinar Series
Christian and Marxist Approaches on Peace Ethic - Part 1
- 15 February 2023 - 15 February 2023 | online
- In this Webinar Series, together with our partner organisation Dialop, we want to explore the common ground and differences between Christian and Marxist approaches to Peace Ethics. Join us for the first webinar!
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Call for Papers - Deadline 31 January 2023
International Marxist-Feminist Conference: Body, Work and Care in Contemporary Digital Capitalism
- 16 November 2023 - 18 November 2023 | Warsaw
- We would like to kindly invite you to submit your presentation proposal for the 5th International Marxist Feminist Conference which will take place 16-18 November 2023 in Warsaw and will focus on feminist theoretical, political, cultural, and artistic responses to current crises.
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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 aim of this study is to examine the far-right in the EP from 2019 until today (September 2022) from different angles and to provide answers to the questions regarding what happened after the 2019 elections, how the European far-right is organised...
- This eDossier summarises studies from all parts of Europe that aim to analyse how the discussions on the return of austerity policies are being conducted and whether a care society, a climate policy is in the discourse in the respective countries....
- 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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