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The Law and Justice Party and Poland’s Turn to the Right
- It has been over a year since the conservative Law and Justice party (PiS) took over complete governmental control in Poland. The presidential election won by Andrzej Duda in May 2015 and the victory of PiS five months later, gave party’s leader Jarosław Kaczyński almost total control of the state.
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Talk at the 5th EL Congress
The Left: Dialogue and Identity
- transform! is the think tank of the Party of the European Left (EL). Both EL and transform! are, in historical terms, relatively young organisations that were created to achieve something never before attempted: together and in our respective fields, using our individual methodologies, we aim to help create unity among the left in Europe as well as develop a common political culture of the left.
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The European Union: The Threat of Disintegration
Call for support: EuroMemorandum 2017
- This EuroMemorandum draws on discussions and papers presented at the 22nd Workshop on Alternative Economic Policy in Europe, organised by the EuroMemo Group in cooperation with the Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra, from 15-17 September 2016 in Coimbra, Portugal.
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EU-Russian relations
The EU and Russia: Is There a Way Out?
- Current relations between the EU and Russia are going through a long-term crisis which raises several security issues regionally and globally.
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Workshop Report
New Economic Governance of the EU at the European Parliament
- On 13 and 14 October, transform!’s working group on New Economic Governance organized a tight workshop at the European Parliament under the title ‘Is it possible to reform the Economic Governance of the EU?’.
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Report of the Helsinki Workshop
Analysing European Social Democracy: The Stance of the Left
- The workshop was dedicated to the state of affairs in European Social Democracy and the interrelation with the current crisis and the dismantling of European integration. In the framework of the event, we analyzed the decline of Social Democracy through the prism of post-democratic politics, as well as from the political economy perspective.
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The Referendum in Italy
Because History is Made by the People
- The air is clean and re-energising, but the journey does not end here; we are now entering a period that will be more delicate and, in some respects, more difficult.
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Call for Papers: ITH Conference 2017
‘Worlds of Labour Turned Upside Down – Revolutions and Labour Relations in Global Historical Perspective’
- After a long quarantine, “revolution” is back as a topic of historiographical debate. The upcoming anniversary of 1917 – arguably one of, if not the most momentous event of the 20th century – has further fuelled this renewed interest.
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Conference Report
‘Authoritarianism and Nationalism in Europe’
- The new left-wing think tank in Poland, Naprzód (Forward), organised its first public event on 5 November, at the headquarters of the Polish Teachers’ Union in Warsaw. The topic of the day-long conference was ‘Authoritarianism and Nationalism in Europe’.
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The French Left at the Eve of the Presidential Election
- Almost five years of ‘Hollandism’ has left progressive political forces in disarray and poisoned up to the very idea of the Left.
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Election Report
Green peasant blues in Lithuania
- Against the backdrop of the current rise in neo-nationalism and the growing xenophobia in the EU and across the Atlantic, one could say that the recent Lithuanian elections, which ended on 23 October, almost seemed to pass with bucolic tranquility. But it is a prelude to yet another phase of a deepening post-democratic crisis affecting national democracies without a politically mobilized precariat in the region.
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Abortion Strike
For Formal Freedoms and Real. The ‘Black Protest’ in Poland
- Given that Poland has one of the lowest natality rates in EU, and its population does not comprise from nuns, priests and friars but regular people, one could expect abortion rate to reach levels similar to other European countries, i.e. approximately 150,000 per year. And yet, officially speaking, the number of abortions performed in the country barely exceeds 1,000.
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Seen from a leftist perspective
A socioecological view of Trump’s election
- The Trump vote has, without a doubt, had far-reaching effects on a number of levels, from global down to regional. The Trumps of this world want to (really) turn back the clock in all areas of society: from women’s rights to global and national upwards redistribution of wealth, armament and the trivialisation of an atomic weapons attack through to doing away with environmental and climatic protection.
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Conference Report
‘Plan B’ Controversies in Copenhagen
- For the third time the European left discussed alternatives to the Europe of austerity.
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COP22
Civil Society Declaration of Marrakech
- We, Moroccan, Maghreb, African and International social movements, assembled in Marrakech during COP22, reaffirm our determination to build and defend climate justice, and to act now in order to ensure global warmingremains under the target of 1.5°C – in line with commitments made by heads of state in Paris.
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Italy
Individual membership in the EL
- I am an individual member of the Party of the European Left, of which I had already been a member as a Member of the European Parliament, and a PRC (Communist Refoundation Party) activist. It was the PRC, one of the founders of the European Left, that pushed this form of membership provided for by the Charter and, at the beginning of the 21st century, supported the creation of an association of individual members.
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Poland, the Land of Evictions
- Poland is facing a housing and eviction crisis due to the disparity between low incomes and high housing costs. Recent developments in this area are both cause for celebration and concern.
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Report
1st European Civic Academy
- transform’s migration working group participated in the first European Civic Academy: Here we present the workshops, main outcomes of the meeting and a few reflections about left strategy in Europe.
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European intellectuals facing the Italian referendum
Global Call for Democracy
- On 4 December the constitutional referendum in Italy will be held. We regard this as a decisive moment not only in the history of the Italian republic but also for Europe. The changes submitted to the referendum aim at abolishing many of the democratic achievements laid down in Italy’s post-war constitution in order to transform the state into a ‘market-compatible’ post-democracy.
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Analysis of Trump’s Victory
The Dilemma between Post-Democracy and Pre-Fascism
- Donald Trump, a relentless right-wing populist, outed as a sexist defender of rape culture, becoming the 45th president of the US proves that the rise of right radicalism is not confined to a number of states and regions and is not a foremost European issue but rather is the expression of a global crisis of politics.
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