TOP NEWS
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France
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The Coming Opportunity. An Overview of Anti-Macron Mobilisation
- Emmanuel Macron and his government are facing their first major social disputes. The complexity and multi-sector nature of the movement raise interesting questions.
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Moldova
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Commemorating the Kishinev Pogrom
- In April 2018, the 115th anniversary of the Kishinev Pogrom is marked. This year, the Jewish Community of the Republic of Moldova, the ‘NEVER AGAIN’ Association and the Jewish Cultural Center KEDEM launch an awareness campaign, which includes a series of articles and materials disseminated in both local and international mass-media.
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Party of the European Left
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Call for Unity of the Left and Progressive Forces
- At its latest Executive Board meeting the Party of the European Left launches a Call for Unity.
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General elections in Italy
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Rebuilding the Left That We Need for Our Time
- We all expected that the 4th March elections would not go well for the left. But, nobody expected it to take such a hit.
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Call for Communications
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‘Thinking with Marx Today’
- An International Conference on the 200th Anniversary of the Birth of Karl Marx will take place in Madrid, 4-6 October 2018. Please send proposals for communications by 1 May.
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Petition
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‘Keep Rosa Luxemburg’s Birthplace Plaque!’
- We the undersigned protest against the removal of a plaque commemorating the birthplace of Rosa Luxemburg in the Polish city of Zamość. We demand that the local government authorities in Zamość return the plaque to its rightful place.
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The International Women’s Strike in Spain
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We Stopped, and so Did the World
- The feminist strike of 8 March was a triumph. It reached a level of social debate unimaginable even months before.
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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...
- There is a need to construct a new narrative for the issue of migration in order to move away from the populist and right-wing discourse which is being spread across Europe, by placing migration in its correct historical and geographical context so...
- On general trends of political and social development in the region of CEE (and not only) in the last 25 years – in order to understand the main roots of recent authoritarian tendencies in their historical contexts.
- 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
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New social actors pose new challenges to organisational structures for political action.
The political system of Spain has been changed after the December 2015 elections.
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?
