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transform! europe Podcasts
- transform! europe's online interview series "The Left Reflects" with Luciana Castellina, Alex Demirović, Nancy Fraser, Leo Panitch, Gayatri Spivak, and Hilary Wainwright now available as podcast – in cooperation with Austrian left-wing platform Mosaik.
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Pictures from Parliamentary Elections
Slovak Left at the Crossroads
- The parliamentary elections in March 2020 have redrawn the political map of Slovakia. It will undoubtedly have an impact on the left spectrum as well. What is the current state of the Slovak left and what are the challenges?
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2020 Elections in Lithuania
Beach Politics Rule: The Epoch-Making Collapse of the Social Democrats
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Global health
The First "res publica" of Humanity?
- The UN General Assembly has convened a Special Session on the Covid-19 pandemic at the level of Heads of State and Government on 3 and 4 December next. It took more than a year of discussions to overcome the opposition of certain states, notably the United States of former President Donald Trump.
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Petition
#Right2Cure: No profit on pandemics
- Left-wing forces all over Europe demand free and universal access to a Covid-19 vaccine and treatments for everyone.
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Thirteen Theses of Marxism-Feminism
- This foundation for Marxist feminist thinking and action, formulated by Frigga Haug, is the outcome of a collective process organised around the Marx-Fem-Conferences.[1] With an introduction by Frigga Haug.
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Analysis
You call it, if you want…evasions
- Roberto Musacchio on recent investigations showing that the growth of tax evasion in the European Union – evasion leading to tax gaps which exceed the healthcare spending of several EU Member States, ‘often by considerable amounts‘.
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Commentary
Poland: Revolution in times of the pandemic
- While the protests are set to drown in a rising wave of the pandemic, we are witnessing a profound mentality shift in Poland.
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Upcoming Events
14th Annual Nicos Poulantzas Memorial Lecture
Manuel Castells: Power in the Digital Age
- 10 December 2020 - 10 December 2020 |
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Some insights from the OPEN BORDER CONFERENCE: Creating Shared Spaces of Struggle
Supported by transform! europe, the OPEN BORDER CONFERENCE took place in Vienna in the context of the Wienwoche festival for art and activism 2020.
The Carbon Clock is Ticking
created by the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC), based on the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming.
On the connection between climate crisis, the pandemic and capitalism – we recommend:
Roland Kulke: The Pandemic as Part of a Much Broader Crisis of Civilisation
NEW RELEASE
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transform! europe's 2020 yearbook explores the future of Europe in the emerging multipolar world. What is the impact of the global crisis of hegemony? What is at stake for democracy and labour and what opportunities are opening up for political and social subjects in the era of digital capitalism? Can art and history still provide some answers?
Yearbook as eBook soon to be available.
- Coping with the consequences of the Corona crisis makes a socio-ecological transformation even more urgent. A look back at the New Deal of the 1930s is useful as inspiration for this. Not just at what was done, but primarily at how it was set in...
- Basque researcher Júlia Martí Comas presents a critical review from an ecofeminist point of view of the DiEM25 proposal The Green New Deal for Europe, and Resolution Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to create a Green New Deal, presented...
FOCUS
The existential crisis in which the EU finds itself in the wake of the Corona crisis is revealing its structural flaws. We must think the EU differently. In this research programme we want to create a space in which the different strategic approaches of various left forces, parties, social movements and trade unions will be discussed.
