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EP Elections Monitoring Project
European Contradictions Five Months Before The EP Elections
- Transform! Europe and all its member and observer organizations have committed themselves to create spaces for radical progressive dialogue and debates and assist the affiliated parties throughout Europe in their race towards the EP elections.
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The Migration World Pact: Wishes and Realities
- Numerous political leaders from all over the world are gathered these days in Marrakech, under the auspices of the UN, to sign a new migration agreement: the Global Compact for Migration. Migration has become one of the political priorities at a global scale and the richest areas of the world are all adopting similar xenophobic measures.
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Call for Paper - submissions by February 15th 2019
BSTP WORKSHOP: IS NATIONALISM OBSOLETE?
- The Balkan Society for Theory and Practice will hold its second workshop on July 1-12th, 2019, in Prishtina, Kosovo. We welcome applications from all disciplines and encourage activists and artists to apply even if their work is not in the form of a traditional paper.
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Report
Hungarian Government Facing Warm Political Winter
- On Sunday, 16th of December more than 30,000 people rallied against a new „Slave Law” passed by the Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's right wing government. We bring the overview of the developments.
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transform! europe's new observer organization
Centre for the Politics of Emancipation
- In autumn 2018, transform! europe could welcome the Centre for the Politics of Emancipation (CPE) as new observer organization. Read about the CPE presenting itself.
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Analysis
Andalusian Elections in Spain. The Beginning of a New Phase of the Political Cycle
- On December 2nd elections were held in Andalusia, the southern region of Spain, and the result marks a turning point in the electoral cycle that starts now in Spain.
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UN Climate Summit 2018
Report on transform! europe Participation in COP24 in Katowice
- We analyse and engage the challenges of climate change from the perspective of our “productive transformation” project. For us only a systemic change of the whole capitalistic system can be real solution to anthropocentric climate change.
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Call for Papers (Deadline: 6 January 2019)
ITH Conference 2019: Working on the Land. Actors, Societies and Environments
- The 55th ITH Conference (5-7 September 2019, Linz/ Upper Austria) investigates the topic of “Working on the Land”, aiming to strengthen the links between labour history and rural history.
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"Yellow Vests" Uprising
The Popular Volcano is Back!
- Paul Elek on the « yellow vests » (gilets jaunes) uprising.
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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
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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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
Social-Economic Situation in Ukraine: Gender Perspective
- In this article, I shortly review the social-economic situation in Ukraine from the perspective of women and other vulnerable groups touching upon the issues of the structural adjustment policies, the armed conflict and the increase of the far-right violence.
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Open Letter
To Europe We Say: Don’t conflate criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism
- In the context of its EU Presidency, the Austrian government will hold a high-level conference on November 21st, titled “Europe Beyond Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism – Securing Jewish Life in Europe.” We fully embrace and support the EU’s uncompromising fight against anti-Semitism. The rise of...
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Conference Report
Protecting Children Against Violence
- The topic of protecting children against violence is very actual all over the world. About the importance of this topic talks also a huge range of surveys, which verify that children have experiences with all types of violence. Therefore, transform! europe supported the Conference, aiming a multidisciplinary coordination of different entities.
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Report: Plenary 2: A New Europe for a New World; Bilbao, 2nd European Forum of Progressive, Ecological And Leftist Forces
Recent Developments on Trade Policy in the EU and a Zombie Emerging Again on the International Political Scene: the Triade
- The relationship of the EU to the rest of the world is primarily based on trade. The role a new Europe should play in a better world therefore primarily needs to be based on a new trade policy. What are relevant points if we discuss the trade policy of Europe[1]?
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Essay
"Even upon the sacrifice of my life, I will fight against gender studies." Joint public exhortations are made in Hungarian Catholic churches
- Gender - the new enemy of the Hungarian government, church-certified;
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Book Review
Common ownership of the means of production is dead. Let’s think beyond property: An Economy of Commons
- Common ownership of the means of production never works. At the size of an enterprise (co-operatives), it excludes those who are not members and therefore appears to be private. At the size of a country, it generates a huge bureaucracy which excludes those - citizens, workers - which are the legal...
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Analysis
After the Referendum and the Vote in the Parliament of North Macedonia
- The referendum in the Republic of North Macedonia on the approval of the Prespa Agreement, registered a strong majority of the YES, almost 94%, although this result was accompanied by a high percentage of abstention. In addition, what is happening in view of the debate in Parliament is indicative of...
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Analysis
Croatia’s Political and Economic Situation – The Periphery of Europe Today
- The purpose of this overview is to provide a glimpse of the political and economic situation in Croatia, and to stress the importance of the European left – a powerful political force that could detect existing problems in light of the political and economic asymmetry between the centre and the periphery of Europe.
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