On 19 December, the left-wing candidate Gabriel Boric won the presidential elections in Chile. The Party of the European Left (EL) congratulates Boric for the historical electoral success.
Dear friends and comrades!
As this memorable year comes to an end, we hope this holiday finds you healthy and safe and also – even if temporarily and partly – free from the capitalist mode of production, so that you can enjoy the time with your loved ones.
Thank you for staying with us over this...
Get an overview on the discussions at the 2021 European Forum, a unique space where the left, greens and progressives can come together and discuss on ways to built another future for Europe.
My main topic concerns the theoretical questions involved here which are emanating of Friedrich Engels famous essay The Part Played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man, in which he basically demonstrates how labour became the principal condition of human existence. In a simplistic...
This study, commissioned by the Left in the European Parliament, aims to draw lessons from the application of the European Social Fund (ESF+) during the period of 2014-2020 in regards to its goal of combating poverty.
The British High Court ruled Julian Assange can be extradited to the United States, where the WikiLeaks founder would face espionage charges for publishing secret US military documents.
After decades of raising awareness, the degree of transformation required to face environmental issues is still the subject of intense debates. While the answers proposed by European governments remain at an embryonic stage, it seems that the Covid crisis has not provided the opportunity...
The Left will put forward Sira Rego MEP (Izquierda Unida, Spain) as its candidate for President of the European Parliament in the midterm elections in January 2022.
To stop climate change, we have to stop the colonial patriarchal capitalist system that caused it. A study published by Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Regional Office Andean Region and Quito, a member organisation of transform! europe.
The crisis caused by the spread of COVID-19 across the planet, in fact, has revealed all the contradictions, limitations and deficiencies of a neoliberal, predatory and unsupportive model of society, which is unable to cope with such a profound challenge like the consequences of a Pandemic, which has ravaged the world for almost two years.
“Hundred shades of the EU – Mapping the Political Economy of the EU Peripheries”, is a title of the research study, conducted by transform! europe with the support of the Rosa-Luxemburg Foundation that aims at characterizing at the socio-economic, political, and cultural levels the current existing peripheries within the European Union.
Interviewed by Andreas Thomsen, Deputy Head of Regional Coordination of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Foundation, on the outcome of the Danish municipal elections.
Czechia should be firmly entrenched in the EU, but the EU must change. Into a united, just and prosperous Europe. Czechia can also find a new, unique role in it. If we can use historical experience and learn to resolve disputes by an agreement, we can become mediators and peacekeepers in a number of conflicts.
On 17 November Elke Kahr, chair of the Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ) Graz, was confirmed as Mayor in the constituent session of the Graz Municipal Council.
On 16 November 2021, municipal elections were held in Denmark, which turned out to be a big win for Enhedslisten/Red-Green Alliance (RGA), the most left party in the Danish parliament and a member Party of the European Left.
President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa has called for snap elections on 30 January 2022 after António Costa's (Socialist Party) government was rejected on 27 October, obtaining yes votes only by the socialists' MPs. Read about the background here.
There has been a new wave of civic protests in Poland against the anti-women policy of the conservative Law and Justice party government and its right-wing coalition partners. As a result of a ruling by the illegally appointed Constitutional Tribunal, politicised by the current government, abortion...
In this edition, the quarterly magazine of the Party of the European Left focuses on different left concepts to combat the climate crisis - and whats causing it.