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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Report
7th Nicosia Book Fest
- Chrysostomos Pashiardis from the Research Institute "Promitheas", an observer organisation of transform! europe, reports on the successful book festival held in Nicosia, Cyprus, from 13-14 and 22-24 October 2022, which has been organised by "Promitheas" Research Institute since 2016.
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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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Interview
Transforming Slovenia, One Step at a Time
- Luka Mesec on the Slovenian Left’s rise from student protests to a party of government
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DIALOP Press Release
Position Paper: Seeking for a Common Future in Solidarity
- On 8 November, the DIALOP position paper was presented in the European Parliament, documenting the common positions of Christians and leftists on a common social ethic.
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Comment
EU Debt Rules: Austerity in Disguise
- The European Commission published their proposals to reform the EU’s fiscal rules from 2024.
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Comment
"Peace is not everything but without peace everything is nothing!"
- Walter Baier comments on behalf of transform! europe on the final document of the 6th European Forum, which took place in Athens in October.
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Analysis
The Latin American Left Will Inspire the World
- The current Brazilian elections are important also for many beyond the country’s borders. Brazil has strengthened the new left wave in Latin America and cooperation across the Global South, which now counts 134 developing countries and could represent a social alternative at a time when Western countries are facing a coming recession and crisis.
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Analysis
Bulgaria Once Again Deadlocked After Fourth Vote in 18 Months
- Georgi Pirinski analyses the parliamentary elections that took place in Bulgaria at the beginning of October, looking at how the result affects central issues such as overcoming corruption and Bulgaria's position on the war in Ukraine, and what consequences the Bulgarian left can draw from the election.
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Interview
The New, Reactionary Government of Sweden and How It Came Into Being
- The latest Swedish elections have seen the rise of the far-right party, Swedish Democrats (which almost entirely focused on immigration and law and order) but also the fall of the left-wing government - says Erik Anderson, member of the Left Party of Sweden in an interview with Wojciech Łobodziński.
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Book Review
Facing the New Far Right in Southern Europe. Analysing the Rise of the Extreme Right After the Financial Crisis
- The new publication, edited by Coppieters Foundation and Fundació nexe, analyses the development of right-wing parties in southern EU countries – specifically in Italy, Spain and France. It looks at their history since the end of the 1970s but focuses mainly on more recent developments after the financial and economic crisis of 2008–2009.
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Analysis
The Iranian Revolution, Political Islam, and Global Capitalism
- Popular anger is overcoming the coercive power of the regime. And considering the courage of the new generation, completely detached from Islamic ideology, it can be expected that the Islamic Republic will not survive for long.
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Analysis
Climate Justice in the Arab Region from the Feminist Perspective
- With COP27 taking place in Egypt in November, Fatma Khafagy gives an analytical overview of the feminist struggles in the Arab region that are closely linked to climate issues.
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Analysis
“Enough is Enough” — Working Class Struggles in the UK
- As Britain faces economic crisis at the hands of a right-wing Conservative government, it continues to be hard hit by Brexit, and is still reeling from the impact of the pandemic. With the Labour Party failing to mount any serious opposition to neo-liberalism, we are at last seeing the re-emergence of significant trade union-led strikes.
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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
Conference
Practices of Securitisation and Externalisation of EU Border Regime Future Scenarios and Resistance
- 25 November 2022 - 27 November 2022 | Belgrade
- The conference discusses the materialisation of the securitisation and externalisation of border zones in different geographies and their transnational entanglements. It asks how the securitisation policy of the EU border regime is strategically planned and implemented, where it fails and how one can resist these mechanisms of violence.
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Conference
Unorthodox and Austro-Marxism in Eastern Europe and Beyond
- 04 December 2022 - 04 December 2022 | Vienna
- The aim of the conference is to present current research, to deepen knowledge of Austro-Marxist and unorthodox Marxist thought in Eastern Europe from the early 1900s to the beginning of the Second World War, and to encourage further research on the subject.
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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 in 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
- 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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