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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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”.
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.
The Collegiate Commission of Izquierda Unida (IU, United Left) remembers Julio Anguita, the former General Coordinator of IU, who passed away on 16 May.
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.
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.'