Till now it was generally considered that, under the 5th Republic’s 1958 Constitution, the Senate (the Upper House of Parliament) could never swing Left.
However, during the senatorial elections of 25 September last, despite an election system tailored for the Right, the “grand electors” (that is...
On 30 September, a seminar entitled “The Public Debt Trap – Is there a Democratic Way out of it?”, which was organised by the Joint Social Conference in co-operation with the British Coalition of Resistance (CoR), the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) and the Transnational Institute (TNI),...
The 6th Summer University, 2011, organized by the European Left party and transform! europe, took place in Trevi, Perugia, in Italy. The hosting party was the Rifondazione Comunista. Simultaneously, the meeting of the Executive Board of the EL took place at the Hotel della Torre, so that members of...
The result of the parliamentary elections in Denmark means that the rightwing government of the last 10 years has finally been ousted. A new government will be formed under the leadership of Helle Thorning-Schmidt, the leader of the Social Democrats. The core parties of this government will be the...
From 9-14 August, the European Network Academy (ENA) of ATTAC Europe took place in Freiburg / Breisgau (Germany). Of the about 1,300 people attending, most were activists of social and ecological movements and members of left organisations and parties.
This year, transform!europe was for the first...
From 9-14 August, the European Network Academy (ENA) of ATTAC Europe took place in Freiburg / Breisgau (Germany). Of the about 1,300 people attending, most were activists of social and ecological movements and members of left organisations and parties.
This year, transform! europe was for the first...
It is very quiet in the streets. Everywhere there are flowers. There is a strong will not to allow this situation to create a climate of fear. What we see right now is Norway and Oslo from their best sides.
If we want to learn from these killings and want to prevent similar attacks in the future it...
In the past ten years, we, the people demonstrating at the Genoa counter-summit in 2001, have been struggling not to lose the expectations expressed at that time.
The people demonstrating in Genoa belonged to a movement whose slogan was “another world is possible”. The movement had started in...
Das Projekt eines modernen spanischen Wohlfahrtsstaats („finanzkapitalistischer Wohlfahrtsstaat“) hat sich historisch erschöpft. Im März 2011 organisierte eine kleine Gruppe von Jugendlichen aus den (gross)städtischen Milieu eine Demostration gegen Korruption in Wirtschaft und Politik, aber auch...
Not long after the big manifestations of the “Indignados” at the Square of Puerta del Sol in Madrid and other spanish cities, a similar call quickly diffused through the social media (blogs, facebook, twitter) invited the greek citizens to protest against austerity on the 26th of May at Syntagma...
The financial crisis has caused a substantial increase in public debt. Instead of sending the bill to the banking and financial services industry, European governments and the European Commission plan to make ordinary citizens pay: workers, families, young people. The euro crisis has become the...