The earth is heating up faster and faster. We live, work and produce at the expense of others and at the expense of our future. What needs to change? What challenges and tasks do employees and trade unions face in order to make good work and a good life for all possible?
Auf ihrem 5. Parteitag 2016 in Berlin beschloss die Europäische Linkspartei (EL) ein jährliches Forum der progressiven Kräfte zu installieren, um so wirksamer in die europäische Öffentlichkeit intervenieren zu können.
Vertreter_innen der Mitgliedsorganisationen, Angestellte und Gäste von transform! europe kamen Mitte September im Wiener Koordinationsbüro zur jährlichen Mitgliederversammlung zusammen. Die fast 50 Teilnehmer_innen diskutierten allgemein politisch und die Mitglieder beschlossen den Budgetrahmen und Arbeitsplan 2020.
Find here a non-exhaustive list of the most recent publications on Rosa Luxemburg's life and work - all released in 2019, the year of the 100th anniversary of her murder.
Am vergangenen 30. Oktober beschloss der Stadtrat von Madrid, den 23. August als „Europäischen Tag des Gedenkens an die Opfer von Stalinismus und Nationalsozialismus“ zu begehen, „um an die Opfer des kommunistischen und nationalsozialistischen Regimes und anderer totalitärer und autoritärer Regime zu erinnern“.
The Summer University was the European Left's first public appointment following the elections, and, despite the fatigue of the electoral campaign, participation was good. Over 220 people registered for the three days of plenary sessions and seminars.
As always, the quality of the interventions...
Wenn Linke über Alternativen nachdenken, verbinden sie es normaler Weise mit Kämpfen. Schon Marx und Engels verstanden die Geschichte aller bisherigen Gesellschaften als Geschichte von Klassenkämpfen. Wolfgang Kessler zeigt, dass es auch einer Kunst in diesen Kämpfen bedarf, der Kunst, den Kapitalismus emanzipatorisch und solidarisch zu verändern.
On Sunday, November 10, general elections took place in Spain. 48 hours later, the leaders of the PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party – social democrats) and Unidas Podemos (UP), Pedro Sánchez and Pablo Iglesias, announced a left-wing coalition government in Spain. Read Marga Ferré's comment and the preliminary agreement between PSOE and UP.
On Saturday, 19 October, transform! europe’s member organisation Fundació l’Alternativa celebrated the XII edition of the Race and Walk Lluís Companys – an event that bundles historical memory, giving voice to republican values, sports and culture. An active and festive way of claiming peace culture and solidarity between peoples and nations.
It is with joy that we followed live images of the release of Brazil’s former President Lula da Silva from incarceration.
Lula’s imprisonment since April 2018 was the result of an unfair political process, part of an institutional coup that led to President Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment, to prevent...
This is a first in the balance of power between the Commission – the EU executive – and the European Parliament. Even before the scrutiny of the candidates for the future College of Commissioners, headed by Ursula von der Leyen, began on 30 September, two candidates were blocked by a majority of...
Aus Anlass der Resolution „Die Bedeutung des europäischen Gedenkens für die Zukunft Europas", die am 19. September mit großer Mehrheit vom Europäischen Parlament angenommen wurde – geschlossen abgelehnt einzig durch die GUE/NGL – verfasste der Vorstand von transform! europe den folgenden offenen Brief.
Significant political changes in Hungary: In the larger cities, the fragmented opposition parties and civil organizations were able to increase their support due to the collaboration of different opposition factions. As a result of the disproportionate electoral system, in some places opposition was able to obtain a significant majority.
The 2019 Polish parliamentary elections were held on 13 October 2019. All 460 members of the Sejm and 100 senators of the Senate were elected. The ruling PiS win the elections, far-right enters the parliament, whilst the left returns to parliament.