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Interview
Enrique Santiago: „Wir müssen die Commons wieder aufbauen, die wir niemals hätten privatisieren sollen."
- Enrique Santiago, Generalsekretär der Kommunistischen Partei Spaniens (Partido Comunista de España, PCE) und stellvertretender Sprecher von Unidas Podemos im spanischen Parlament, kommentiert die aktuellen Maßnahmen zur Bekämpfung der Wirtschaftskrise.
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Commentary
Politics in the Face of a Climate Disaster
- In 2015, when the Paris Agreement was still under negotiations, British journalist Paul Mason expressed his doubts whether the agreement would be signed and wrote that such climate conferences „resemble the peace treaties that paved the way to the Second World War."[1] Although Mason was wrong about...
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Statement
Enrique Santiago: "A government with Unidas Podemos has meant greater protection for workers in the Coronacrisis."
- Enrique Santiago was the guest in the eighth edition of transform! europe's webinar series “Meeting the Left”.
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European Forum 2020
Black Lives Matter: Let’s fight together against racism and the factors that allow it
- Read the press release of the European Forum 2020.
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Bericht
Polnische Präsidentschaftswahl von rechter Homophobie geprägt
- Während die Bedrohung der Pandemie nach wie vor über Polen schwebt, wird das Land Ende des Monats einen neuen Präsidenten wählen. Die Wahl wird von Kandidaten der beiden rechten Parteien dominiert, wobei der amtierende Andrzej Duda homophobe Propaganda zu einem zentralen Element seiner Kampagne macht.
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Analyse
Auf der Suche nach Mehrheiten. Europas Konservative im Richtungsstreit.
- Die EU steht angesichts der aktuellen Herausforderungen an einem Scheideweg. Ob sie sich als Verbund von Nationalstaaten zu einer neuartigen Freihandelszone entwickelt oder zukünftig als eigenständiger Akteur in globale Konflikte eingreift, wird auch von den konservativen Kräften abhängen, die die politisch einflussreichste Kraft in der EU sind.
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Personal Report
The Strike of Turkish Workers in Kaunas: On the “transparent” Municipality, the “terrorist” Trade Union, and the Victories of Solidarity
- Jurgis Valiukevičius, co-founder of the 1st May Labor Union on the labour dispute of Turkish workers in Lithuania.
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Analysis
Economic Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic in the Czech Republic
- The Czech Republic has so far fared well in containing the pandemic. However, the economic consequences of the lockdown and the rapidly worsening situation in the world economy are yet to come. This article deals with economic measures implemented to mitigate the economic consequences of the pandemic through the eyes of political economy.
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Statement
Clémentine Autain: "Social democracy has failed. We need to invent something new."
- Clémentine Autain was the guest in the seventh edition of transform! europe's webinar series “Meeting the Left”.
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Statement
Manon Aubry: "The Recovery Package put forward by the European Commission means Austerity."
- Manon Aubry, together with Martin Schirdewan Co-President of the GUE/NGL group, was the guest in the sixth edition of transform! europe's webinar series Meeting the Left. She is former spokesperson for Oxfam, and since 2019 a Member of the European Parliament for France Insoumise.
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Analysis
Set It Off: The Current Uprising is a Chance to Reset American History
- George Floyd is seen on video pleading “I can’t breathe, please help.” He later calls for his mother. Eight minutes, 46 seconds later, Floyd was dead.
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Analysis
The German Federal Constitutional Court’s 5th of May ruling: a game changer in the Eurozone?
- On 5 May, the German Constitutional Court’s ruling questioned the legality of the European Central Bank (ECB)’s purchases of sovereign bonds, which play a key role in preventing an implosion of the Eurozone. Where is this judgement coming from and what are its political, legal and macroeconomic potential consequences?
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Announcement
"Lūžis" – New Left-Wing Magazine in Lithuania Out Now
- DEMOS Institute of Critical Thought, supported by transform! europe, has launched the first issue of its magazine Lūžis (Fracture). Lūžis is one of the rare left-wing magazines in Lithuania edited by progressive academics, political activists and trade unionists from Vilnius and Kaunas.
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Statement
Arnaldo Otegi (EH Bildu, Basque Country): "The government must now decide what it wants. We will not be satisfied with aesthetic changes."
- Otegi: "Today's minimum revolutionary programme is the redistribution of wealth, the self-determination of peoples, a feminist agenda, a joint action against climate change, decisive resistance against authoritarianism, a pro-peace attitude and the launch of a civic and anti-oligarchic political-economic project”.
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Statement
Heinz Bierbaum fordert: „Wir brauchen einen Europäischen Gesundheitsfonds mit 100 Milliarden Euro, von der EZB finanziert."
- Heinz Bierbaum, Präsident der Europäischen Linkspartei (EL), im Interview mit transform! europe im Rahmen der Serie "Meeting the Left" zur Krise unseres sozialen und ökonomischen Systems und dem neuen Positionspapier der EL.
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Obituary
Good Bye, Julio.
- The Collegiate Commission of Izquierda Unida (IU, United Left) remembers Julio Anguita, the former General Coordinator of IU, who passed away on 16 May.
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Statement
Katja Kipping: „Wenn wir Europa wollen, muss Europa solidarisch werden. Es ist daher auch nicht egal, wer in Deutschland regiert."
- Der zweite Gast in der transform! Serie „Meeting the Left“ war die Co-Vorsitzende der Partei Die LINKE, Katja Kipping. Das Gespräch stand in weiten Teilen im Zeichen der Europapolitik.
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Statement
Catarina Martins (Left Bloc, Portugal): 'If the EU won’t be able to answer the crisis, the EU will hardly survive'
- Catarina Martins, National Coordinator of the Portuguese party Bloco de Esquerda (Left Bloc) proposes the 'creation of a Recovery Fund of 1.5 billion euros, directly funded by the ECB and makes the case for the building alliances between peripheral economies, such as the Portuguese one, for example around the demand for public debt restructuring.'
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Analysis
Reflection on the fundamental cause of the collapse of the ownership and power structure of the real pre-November Socialism in Czechoslovakia
- Read the paper of the Czech Marxist philosopher František Neužil.
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Statement
8 and 9 May 2020 mark the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War
- Read the statement of Heinz Bierbaum, President of the party of the European Left.
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