“We, the unemployed, the underpaid, the subcontracted, the precarious, the young … demand a change towards a future with dignity. We are fed up of reforms, of being laid off, of the banks which have caused the crisis hardening our mortgages or taking away our houses, of laws limiting our freedom in...
The people of Finland have spoken: a landslide victory for the nationalist-traditionalist True Finns, who got 19 % of votes (+14.9 %) and 39 seats (+34) in the 200-seat parliament, while all the other parties were losers.
Who are the True Finns?
First of all, they are a protest party against...
On March 10 and 11, representatives of national and European trade unions and of NGOs and social networks from 15 EU countries (from both East and West) met for the first Spring Social Conference. The conference aims to bring together each year before the Spring European Summit a broad range of...
Seminar of the Dynamo-Group hosted by transform! europe, Paris, 18-19 March 2011
Publication: A triumph of failed ideas. European models of capitalism in the crisis
Evaluating an event of events such as the World Social Forum is one, proves difficult at times. Therefore the conclusions drawn by the International Council on 12-13 February at its meeting in Dakar can only be ones for the time being.
Among the participants of the meeting the unanimous opinion...