Ο Ενρίκε Σαντιάγκο, Γενικός Γραμματέας του Κομμουνιστικού Κόμματος Ισπανίας (PCE) και Κοινοβουλευτικός Εκπρόσωπος των Unidas Podemos στο ισπανικό κοινοβούλιο, μιλάει για τα μέτρα που ελήφθησαν για την καταπολέμηση της οικονομικής κρίσης.
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...
Ενώ η απειλή της πανδημίας εξακολουθεί να επικρέμαται πάνω από την Πολωνία, η χώρα θα προσέλθει στις κάλπες στο τέλος του μήνα για να ψηφίσει τον νέο Πρόεδρό της. Επικρατούν οι υποψήφιοι των δύο βασικών δεξιών κομμάτων, με τον απερχόμενο πρόεδρο Αντρέι Ντούντα να χρησιμοποιεί την ομοφοβική προπαγάνδα στον πυρήνα της προεκλογικής του εκστρατείας.
Ενόψει των σημερινών προκλήσεων, η ΕΕ βρίσκεται σε σταυροδρόμι. Το αν στο μέλλον εξελιχθεί σε έναν νέο τύπο ζώνης ελεύθερων συναλλαγών ως κοινοπραξία ισχυρών εθνών-κρατών, ή αν θα παρεμβαίνει στις παγκόσμιες συγκρούσεις ως ανεξάρτητος παίκτης, θα εξαρτηθεί πολύ από τις συντηρητικές δυνάμεις που συγκροτούν τη μοναδική ισχυρή πολιτική ομάδα στην ΕΕ.
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, President of the Party of the European Left (EL), in the interview with transform! europe, discussing the crisis of our social and economic system and the new position paper of the 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.
The second guest in transform!’s series "Meeting the Left" was Katja Kipping, Co-Chairperson of the party Die LINKE. The conversation largely focussed on European politics.
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.'