Top News
Italian Students Camp Out Against High Rents
- In Italy, a growing number of students are mobilising in a peaceful protest against high rent costs in university cities under the slogan “Senza casa=senza futuro” (No housing=no future). Led by the university students' union UDU (Unione degli Universitari), they demand affordable education and are are making their voices heard across the country.
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Report - History Trip to Athens
The Greek Left in the 20th Century – Between Illegality and Anti-Communism
- In March 2023, transform! europe organised a historical study trip to Athens in cooperation with the association present:history, which provides historical-political educational work and is dedicated to the critical examination of intersections between history and the present.
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Reflections on Green Deal, Industrial Policies, and Geoeconomics/Geopolitics
- The convergence of crises, including neoliberal capitalism, geopolitical conflicts, and the climate catastrophe, calls for a significant shift in EU policies. Harald Wolf explores the key factors that must be considered in redefining and reorienting the current policies to address the economic, industrial, and geopolitical challenges at hand.
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Analysis
The Gradual Abolition of the Individual’s Right to Asylum
- The Pact on Migration and Asylum presented by the EU commission in 2020 focuses on deterrence, isolation, a toughening of the European border, and the fast-tracking of decisions at the expense of asylum seekers’ rights. New steps are now being taken by the European Parliament and the Swedish Presidency of the EU Council. Where is Europe heading?
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Speech
After Tempe: Preconditions For Regaining Confidence in the Railways
- Speech by Kostas Genidounias, President of the Panhellenic Association of Train Drivers (PEPE) at the conference organised by the Nikos Poulantzas Institute entitled "Safety: Countering the Argument - From Individual Responsibility to Multifaceted Collective Safety" held on 26th of April 2023.
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Analysis
Problematic Working Conditions Among Contract Workers in the Italian Shipbuilding Industry
- Fincantieri is an Italian shipbuilding company that has expanded its global reach through a series of acquisitions and agreements and is portrayed as a respected and successful company. However, behind the façade of its industrial and commercial succes lies a darker reality of exploiting temporary workers and subcontractors to achieve its success.
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Interview
The Romanian IT Workers’ Labour Union Showed that Everyone Can!
- Florentin Iancu, President of the Romanian IT Workers' Union (SITT), reflects on the history of his union, how it differs from other unions and how its members' attitudes to labour have changed over the years.
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Analysis
One Against All?
- Macron's deeply unpopular pension reform passed, but the fight isn't over yet.
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Report
What Is Really Behind Delhaize's Plan?
- Workers at Delhaize (one of Belgium's largest supermarket chains) are massively protesting against implementation of the franchise model which is expected to lead to layoffs, precariousness, and lower wages, as well as to endanger national unions and set a new franchising trend in the whole retail sector in motion.
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Analysis
Different Countries, Same Labour Struggle: Europe’s Hospitals on Strike
- Healthcare cuts have sparked strike movements in many countries. How have these struggles developed in Germany, Great Britain and Spain, and what is actually going on in Austria’s hospitals? Fabian Hattendorfer, Benjamin Herr and Mathias Krams (editors of the Austrian online blog mosaik) provide an overview.
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Analysis
May 2023 - Italian Trade Unions Mobilise For a New Era of Labour Rights
- In Italy this month is marked by successful inter-regional demonstrations organised by the three confederal trade unions. Leopoldo Tartaglia, Secretary of the CGIL-International Department, outlines the crucial role of organised and unified trade union forces in embarking on a new path of general struggles and mobilisations.
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Upcoming Events
Peace by Peaceful Means
International People’s Summit For Peace in Ukraine
- 10 June 2023 - 11 June 2023 | Vienna
- On June 10/11 international civil society is gathering in Vienna, Austria. The aim of the Peace Summit is to publish an Urgent Global Appeal, called the Vienna Declaration for Peace, calling on political leaders to act in support of a ceasefire and negotiations in Ukraine.
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Building a Political Alternative for Europe
Peace, Fights, Left, Right - In Italy and in Europe
- 14 June 2023 - 14 June 2023 | Rome
- These are the key issues of the meeting that transform! europe is presenting in Rome on 14 June, inviting representatives of left-wing political forces, including Walter Baier (President of the Party of the European Left), Manon Aubry (Co-President of the European Parliamentary Group of the Left) and Michele Santoro (organiser of the Peace Raley).
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Forum
The Future Factory
- 15 June 2023 - 18 June 2023 | Rome
- From 15-18 June we will come together in Rome to build the future! Activists, academics and left organisations will meet to discuss and design non-militaristic, non-antagonistic and collaborative futures.
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Save the Date
Summer University 2023 of the Party of the European Left and transform! europe
- 06 July 2023 - 09 July 2023 | Ljubljana
- The EL and transform! europe Summer University 2023 will take place in Ljubljana (Slovenia), from the 6th to the 9th of July 2023.
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New Release
- The aim of this research is to develop and provide basic knowledge on the challenges of the "coal exit" for the areas of North Czech Republic, East Germany and large parts of South-West and Central Poland.
eDossier
Who Votes for the Left and Why? In Search of Our Identity
- Check out our new eDossier with selected contributions from last year's annual Strategy Seminar organised by transform! europe and the Rosa-Luxemburg-Foundation, which took place in Paris in November 2022 and focused on the sociology of the left vote and various conglomerates of the radical left.
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- Youth expresses the most militant and promising part of the political left, playing a central role in social mobilisations and political uprisings. But are left-wing parties in Europe credible to Millennials and Gen Z? Why do even the radical parts...
- It is obvious that political environmentalism unfolds differently according to gender. This study aims to explore the heuristic dimension of ecofeminism and contribute to rethinking our contradictions, methods of struggle and possible cross-class...
- The aim of this study is to examine the far-right in the EP from 2019 until today (September 2022) from different angles and to provide answers to the questions regarding what happened after the 2019 elections, how the European far-right is organised...
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.
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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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.
