TOP NEWS
The EU’s ‘Fit for 55’ Climate Package – Insufficient and Unbalanced
- On 14 July 2021 the European Commission presented its climate protection project ‘Fit for 55’ for implementing Europe’s climate legislation. As a whole, the merits of Fit for 55 are mixed. Although it contains steps in the right direction it also has points in urgent need of improvement in the sense of strong climate protection and social justice.
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Essay
All the Clever Books Are of No Help to Me Here
- My parents are fading right before my eyes – but leftists only exist in my world, not theirs.
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Opinion
Understanding the Signs of the Times
- What are the most important lessons of the 2001 Genoa protests, asks transform! europe's Co-President Cornelia Hildebrandt.
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Review
If Not Us, Who? Workers Worldwide Against Authoritarianism, Fascism and Dictatorship
- New Release, edited by Dario Azzellini, Professor of Development Studies at the Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas in Mexico and a visiting scholar at Cornell University in the USA, on resistance against authoritarianism, fascism and dictatorship.
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Opinion
Let’s Try Again!
- This year we commemorate the twentieth anniversary of two crucial landmarks of the old, and now non-existent, anti-globalisation or alternative globalisation movement, which both took place in 2001: the first World Social Forum in Porto Alegre (Brazil) in January, and the “battle of Genoa” in July.
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Speech
Genoa. 20 Years After.
- On 20 July 2001, 23-year-old protester Carlo Giuliani was shot dead by a policeman in the course of the demonstrations against the G8 Summit in Genoa. This summit went down in history for the enormous scale of police brutality. Greek MP Yiannis Bournous, who took part in the protests, reflects on their impact on left parties all across Europe.
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New Release
Advanced Purchase Agreements for Covid-19 Vaccines. Analysis and Comments
- The Left in the European Parliament (formerly: GUE/NGL) presents a study to analyse the agreements between the European Commission and pharmaceutical companies to develop Covid-19 vaccines.
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Upcoming Events
International Conference
Marxist Feminist Conference
- 11 November 2021 - 13 November 2021 | online
- The 4th International Conference will be held online, organized and funded by transform! europe and the University of the Basque Country, along with Iratzar Foundation, Bilbo-Barcelona Critical Theory Group (BIBA CT), the Institut für Kritische Theorie (Inkrit) and Rosa-Luxemburg-Foundation and ParteHartuz, among others.
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Platform Covid-19 – now’s the time for solidarity
Covid-19 shows us that we need a complete economic transformation, one that is sustainable, just, and in the hands of the people. On the platform protectourfuture.eu the Party of the European Left presents an alternative model for the Europe we hope to have. It’s time to go beyond the current form of European integration, to break with the past, abandon austerity and all the policies that prevent the formation of a social Europe.
by The Party of the European Left
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
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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NEW RELEASE
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transform! europe‘s 2021 Yearbook, Capitalism's Deadly Threat, focusing on capitalism's devastating impact on the world ecosystem as well as the concomitant economic crisis.
- This volume reviews the full breadth of discussions around the left project from 2010 to 2020, tracking developments within the left across Europe – edited by Amieke Bouma and transform! europe's Cornelia Hildebrandt and Danai Koltsida.
