TOP NEWS
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International Workshop
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‘The Question of Democracy in Regional Integration Models’
- 18 June 2018 - 20 June 2018 | Madrid
- During the recent decades, we have seen how Latin American countries like Venezuela, Brazil, Ecuador, Argentina, Bolivia, or Colombia contributed to new forms of broad regional cooperation and integration among diverse actors both in economic and political level.
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Manifest to the People of Brazil
- For two months now, I have been unjustly incarcerated without having committed any crime. For two months I have been unable to travel the country I love, bringing the message of hope of a better and more just Brazil, with opportunities for all, as I always did during 45 years of public life.
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Slovenia’s parliamentary elections
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An Increasingly Xenophobic Right, a Fragmented Centre and a Rising Left
- The outcome of the recent Slovenian elections shows a fragmented political landscape, a worrying increase in support for right-wing populism and luckily, an electoral gain for the left’s Levica party that has strengthened its position and improved its manoeuvring space.
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Opinion
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Naughty Kids from the East
- The perception of the EU’s ‘Eastern wing’ by the so-called ‘old Europe’ seems to be going through a change. It has quickly become a target of Western criticism in the crisis’s aftermath.
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A View of the Recent Unexpected Events in Spain
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Ten Days That Changed Spain – Or How to Expel a Right-wing Government Through a No-Confidence Motion
- Last Friday, on 1 June, Pedro Sánchez, the Socialist Party’s (PSOE) General Secretary, who is not even a member of parliament, was proclaimed the new president of Spain after winning a no-confidence motion against the conservative Popular Party (PP) government of Mariano Rajoy. Ten days before nobody would have even dreamed that this was possible.
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transform! Study
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The Party of the European Left, DiEM25 and the Transnational Campaign of Jean-Luc Mélenchon towards the European Elections in 2019
- A study prepared for transform europe! by Angelina Giannopoulou, Facilitator of the European Integration and the Left Strategy programme.
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NEW RELEASES
- 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
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
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.
New social actors pose new challenges to organisational structures for political action.
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?
The political system of Spain has been changed after the December 2015 elections.
