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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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New Release
Against the War. The Other Agenda — Quistioni, 4th Edition
- The 4th issue of the quarterly magazine of the Party of the European Left contains contributions on the topic of commitment to peace and disarmament as well as the fight against climate change and for a better world.
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Interview
Anti-Fascist Resistance as a Movement for Transformational Social Change
- The ¡No pasarán! – Contested Memories symposium examined politics of remembrance, revisionism and anti-fascist resistance in the Alps-Adriatic Region. transform! europe's Michael Hollogschwandtner spoke to conference organiser Mirko Messner.
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Analysis
A New Left Tide in Latin America. Making Structural Progress Finally?
- Can the recent election of Colombia's first leftist president, Gustavo Petro, be seen as an impulse for change that will finally create social structural progress in Latin America?
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Comment
Fit for 55 Vote: Greenwashing and Power Games
- The European Parliament votes down the controvese Emissions Trading System (ETS). It was rejected by a clear majority, with the Green and Socialist MEPs rejecting the proposal because the amendments of the conservative groups weakened it too much in their opinion, while the right-wing groups considered it too ambitious.
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A Europe-Wide Right to Abortion: A Vote For Hope
- In just a few short weeks, the impact of the US Supreme Court ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade has been profound. Its reverberations were also felt in Europe. Last week, the European Parliament voted in favour of a resolution to defend abortion rights.
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Analysis
The Re-Parlamentarisation of French Politics
- On Sunday 19 June, a long electoral sequence in France that began on 10 April during the first round of the presidential election ended.
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Analysis
Finnish Shifts and Swedish Steadiness: Lines of Division on the Issue of NATO Membership
- Jukka Pietiläinen analyses the left positions on Sweden´s and Finland´s NATO membership. Both countries intend to join NATO, however, perspectives and opinions on this issue are divided.
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Opinion
NATO and the Construction of the Enemy
- Marga Ferré, Co-President of transform! europe, comments on the NATO-led western militarisation and analyses its ideological foundation. In this context, she points out the construction of the "other" as the enemy and racial supremacy, which both must be fought.
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transform! europe Peace Manifesto
Stop the War! An Appeal for a Europe of Peace
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Upcoming Events
ESU22
European Summer University of Social Movements 2022
- 17 August 2022 - 21 August 2022 | Mönchengladbach
- ESU22 will be about the future of Europe. We will draw lessons from the deficits that the pandemic has so brutally shown us in many aspects of life. After the last European Summer University of Social Movements — in Paris and Toulouse — we will meet this year in Germany! transform! europe is participating as a cooperation partner. Join us!
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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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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
- ‘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...
- This year’s EuroMemorandum focuses not only on EU´s failure in seeking multilateral cooperation for the Covid-19 pandemic. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine also marks a dramatic turning point for the international system itself and in particular for the...
- transform! europe presents a comparative study on the economic, political, and ideological aspects of peripherality within the European Union.
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.
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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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