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  • The Variable Geometry of the Left

  • By Walter Baier | 06 Jul 18
  • Despite moderate growth rates, the EU isn’t well. While the social disparities within and between the individual states continue to grow, it has opted for an increase of its military expenditures and tries to make up its obvious lack of internal cohesion with an ever more aggressive policy against migrants and refugees.
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  • EU And East-Europeans. Czech Republic As An Example

  • From Love To Hate

  • By Viera Hudečková | 06 Jul 18
  • An article by Viera Hudečková based on an intervention made at The International Conference “Another EU is necessary and possible” organised by the Party of the European Left on the 12th of May 2018, Sofia, Bulgaria.
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  • Solving Energy Poverty could be one of the biggest achievements of the 21st century. Rising energy costs and falling household incomes make energy poverty a growing concern in the European Union. This means that approximately 11% of the population...
  • In 2017 the cohesion of the European Union has come under threat as never before. Populist-right anti-European parties have either entered governments or come close to doing so. The Brexit process is going forward, and the integrity of some states is...
  • As the German playwright Bertolt Brecht once noted, ‘Thought is something that follows from difficulties and precedes action’. The European Union is in difficulties. So too is the Left.

VIDEO OF THE WEEK

Lowkey ft. Mai Khalil – Ghosts of Grenfell (official video):
It is about a year that the block of flats in Grenfell, London, burnt down due to murderous government cuts and greedy, neoliberal construction company. 71 people were killed.

FOCUS

EP 2019 – The European Left: One Mouth, Many Voices
Though May 2019 is not so far, many developments can change the course of the European left during the following months. Political upheavals may turn upside down the various strategies and convergences may pop up.
Strategic Perspectives of the European Left
New social actors pose new challenges to organisational structures for political action.
Radical, Far and Populist Right
Can right-wing parties with a nationalist and populist agenda come into power even in the core of the EU? Of which character is the challenge they are posing to the Left?
Spain decides
The political system of Spain has been changed after the December 2015 elections.