An international crowd of over 50,000 people marched to put an end to highly destructive austerity policies and to call for the implementation of progressive alternatives to lead the EU out of the crisis.
The European elections on May 22 - 25 will be crucial. They offer the possibility for the European populations to give their verdict on the policy of the institutions and to express their expectations and hopes for change.
transform! europe will present on its website preliminary analysis,...
This transform! research project is investigating political perceptions in the crisis and aims at understanding subjective paths of resignation and rebellion regarding capitalist domination. From materials such as opinion surveys or more qualitative studies, it seeks to characterize the evolution of...
Speech held by the philosopher and psychoanalyst Nicole-Edith Thevenin at the public meeting on 9 November 2013 in Capannori, Italy, during the FAE’s European meeting.
Αν και ο λόγος για τα Πανεπιστήμια αναφέρεται σε «ποιότητα», «ανταγωνιστικότητα» κι «ελκυστικότητα» του πανεπιστημίου, οι μεταρρυθμίσεις στην ανώτατη εκπαίδευση αποτελούν ένα από τα σημαντικότερα σημεία διακινδύνευσης της δημοκρατίας σε πολλές χώρες. Και αυτό γιατί συνδέονται όχι μόνο με ζητήματα όπως την απαξίωση του πανεπιστημίου ως δημόσιου αγαθού (με τη σχετική μείωση των εθνικών πόρων), τη συρρίκνωση της μόρφωσης σε γνώσεις που στηρίζουν την προώθηση της επιχειρηματικότητας, τις αγοραοποίηση και την εμπορευματοποίηση της εκπαίδευσης και της μόρφωσης, αλλά και με το φοιτητικό χρέος και τον έλεγχο των μελλοντικών γενεών μέσα από αυτό.
On 8 March, the “Initiative for Democratic Socialism” (IDS) had its founding congress and officially transformed itself into a political party. In the invitation to the congress we have written that in the last twenty years all political parties in Slovenia have been representatives of one and the same fraction, the fraction of capital. We have emphasized that it is high time Slovenia gets a proper socialist party that openly and consciously represents a socialist alternative to both, the crisis in Slovenia as well as the crisis in European Union.
On 11 March, the Association Culturelle Joseph Jacquemotte organised a debate at Espace Marx Brussels inviting the two main Belgian trade unions (FGTB and CSC) and two undocumented workers to speak about class consciousness and solidarity between undocumented workers and regular workers in Belgium.
About 280 participants have been at the international conference on 28 February and 1 March entitled Freedom of Information under Pressure: Control - Crisis - Culture, organized by the University of Vienna, transform!at and the Critical Librarians Association (KRIBIBI) at the Vienna University.
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First information from 12 March on the funeral of the 14-year-old Berkin Elvan in Istanbul and the following demonstration and protests and police violence.
The crisis in Ukraine has escalated to such a degree that, at worst, war between Ukraine and Russia, and subsequently a disastrous military confrontation between Russia and NATO, could be the outcome.
The leaders of the German party DIE LINKE, Katja Kipping and Bernd Riexinger, and the Chairman of the DIE LINKE Parliamentary Group Gregor Gysi have made the following statement on the situation in Ukraine:
Ήταν περίπου 300 πρόσφυγες από τη Δυτική Αφρική που στις αρχές του 2013 έφτασαν μέσω Λιβυής στο Αμβούργο. Έπειτα από μια ριψοκίνδυνη διαδρομή στη θάλασσα, έφτασαν πρώτα στο ιταλικό νησί Λαμπεδούσα, από όπου πήρε και το όνομα της η ομάδα προσφύγων του Αμβούργου.
On Friday, 31 January, the AKADEMIA-Network of transform! europe organised a two-day conference in Madrid on the question of University, Science and Research in Europe. It was hosted by the three Spanish members of our network: the Foundation for a Europe of Citizens (FEC), the Foundation for Marxist Studies (FIM), and the Catalan Foundation L’Alternativa. The conference took place on 31 January and 1 February 2014 at Residencia de Estudiantes/Spanish Centre of Scientific Research (CSIC).
Την Παρασκευή 14 Φεβρουαρίου, το δίκτυο AKADEMIA του transform! europe οργάνωσε εργαστήριο για την ιστορία της Ευρώπης. Το εργαστήριο ήταν συνέχεια της ιδρυτικής συνάντησης που οργανώθηκε τον Απρίλιο του 2013, η οποία συγκέντρωσε ιστορικούς που ανήκουν ή συνεργάζονται με οργανώσεις- μέλη του δικτύου μας. Τη συνάντηση αυτή είχε στηρίξει η ευρωβουλεύτρια Μαρί-Κριστίν Βερζιά της ομάδας GUE/NGL (Αριστερό Μέτωπο, Γαλλία).
A lot of discussion has been going on regarding the Russian foreign policy and its military potential. The aim of this article is not to analyze the state and potential of the Russian military technique, but to look into the economic strengths and weaknesses of this huge country.
Currently, there are two immediate positive steps taken by the new Czech government: they instantly removed the hospital fees of CZK 100 (about 4 Euros) per person daily, and they continued refusing that Czech Post is privatized, as right-wing former governments have promoted in their agendas.
Two days before his 70th birthday Lutz Holzinger died in the night to 12 February. During the last three years Lutz has been co-editor of the English issue of the transform! journal.
On 7 February, government buildings were on fire all over Bosnia and Herzegovina. The people of Bosnia and Herzegovina, silent for a long time, finally decided to speak their minds. And when they did, those were not words – it was a roar. It was fire, stones and heavy fighting with the police.