TOP NEWS
"Yellow Vests" Uprising
The Popular Volcano is Back!
- Paul Elek on the « yellow vests » (gilets jaunes) uprising.
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Speech in the Bilbao Forum
The Neo-fascisist Parties like the FPÖ don’t Believe in Democracy
- The new tendency to authoritarian rule does not come from nowhere; the reason for its rise is that neoliberal austerity policy, the dismantling of the welfare states, the degradation and precarisation of the working class has not solved any of Europe’s problems.
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2nd European Forum of Progressive, Ecological And Leftist Forces
Final Declaration European Forum Bilbao
- Our goal is to fight for a Europe that is a fully cooperative, solidary, equal and socially advanced democracy. We call for empowering popular sovereignty by launching a new charter for sovereign democracy in Europe.
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Marking 70 Years Of The Carinthian Partisan Association
- On 10 November, 1,200 people came together at the Klagenfurt exhibition space for an impressive event to mark the 70th anniversary of the ‘Association of Carinthian Partisans and Friends of the Anti-Fascist Resistance’/Zveza koroških partizanov in prijateljev antifašističnega odpora.
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Analysis
Poland and the Left After the Local Elections
- The recent local elections in Poland have once again been dominated by the country’s two main right-wing parties: Law and Justice Party (PiS) and Citizens’ Platform (PO). They have also underlined the present weakness of the Polish left, which was further marginalised during these elections.
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Analysis
Failed referendum in Romania shows deep disillusionment with the political establishment.
- The restoration of capitalism in countries like Romania failed to meet its promises and has instead delivered mass economic migration, vast income inequality, decaying public services, precarious jobs, low wages and corruption.
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NEW RELEASE
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The 2018 yearbook is online now! Read the interview by Walter Baier with Samir Amin from Nov 2017 here!
This volume is appearing one year before the European Parliament elections. Despite moderate economic growth the process of European integration is in political crisis. Our volume is characterised by a critical evaluation of integration as such.
- Despite the return to modest economic growth in the EU and the Euro group the scars of the economic crisis persist. The European Union still operates in a crisis mode. Inside the Left a debate on how to cope with the crisis of European integration...
FOCUS
Though May 2019 is not so far, many developments can change the course of the European left during the following months. Political upheavals may turn upside down the various strategies and convergences may pop up.
Can right-wing parties with a nationalist and populist agenda come into power even in the core of the EU? Of which character is the challenge they are posing to the Left?
New social actors pose new challenges to organisational structures for political action.
LATEST VIDEO
Message from Erasmo Palazzotto MP on the “Mare Jonio” Boat of the civil society platform Mediterranea - Saving Humans to the Bilbao European Forum;
