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Statement of the GUE/NGL
EU Must Work to Stop Erdogan’s Attack Against Syrian Kurds
- As Turkish troops prepare to invade the Kurdish autonomous areas in northeast Syria, Left MEP Özlem Demirel (DIE LINKE, Germany) appealed for urgent efforts to put a stop to the threat. “The European Union and the international community must condemn in the strongest terms this aggressive and...
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Report
“Confronting Climate Change – Red-Green Transformation in Europe and globally”
- Transform!Danmark organized its eighth international conference in Copenhagen in spring 2019, continuing the debate on the development of left economic and ecological alternatives.
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Historic Highs And Lows: Parliamentary Elections In Austria
- Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) down 10% – Greens back in National Council with 14% - Social Democrats at historic low - Conservatives at historic high.
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Analysis
A Political Earthquake in Eastern Germany: The Recent State Elections in Brandenburg and Saxony
- Alongside European and municipal elections, there are also four state elections happening in Germany this year, taking place in Bremen, Brandenburg, Saxony and Thuringia. Read Cornelia Hildebrandt's and Roland Kulke's comment.
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Analysis
Nothing New Marches On in a ‘De-Leagued’ Italy
- And so a new government has been formed in Italy – more out of necessity than choice – dictated by the opportunity Matteo Salvini, the League’s leader, handed the Five-Star Movement (M5S) to switch alliances and isolate Salvini and his dreams of dominance.
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Comment
Britain’s Political Crisis: Problems and Possibilities for the Left
- The British political crisis continues, with the latest developments consolidating the hard right takeover of the Tory Party and Government that began with the Brexit referendum in 2016 and is now leading to the development of a potentially mass neo-fascist movement. This is taking place against the...
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Comment
The European Parliament Inured to Wiping Out Memory
- On left silence and the foreign-policy motivation behind the revision of history contained in the European Parliament's resolution. Read Luciana Castellina's comment.
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Review
In the Great Transformation
- Recently, the draft for a globalisation programme was submitted by the National Board of the Red-Green Alliance/Enhedslisten (Denmark), member of the Party of the European Left (EL), to the party's next Annual Congress on 5 – 6 October. Read Walter Baier's review.
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Report
‘… Going to Ibiza’ – New Elections in Austria
- On 29 September new elections will be held. The disclosing of the Ibiza video in May marked the end of the coalition of the conservatives and extreme right wing, at least provisionally. Read Michael Graber’s report on the situation in Austria.
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Statement of the International Federation of Resistance Fighters (FIR)
A Bad Message from the European Parliament
- Last Thursday the European Parliament adopted by majority the resolution on the Importance of European remembrance for the future of Europe. Read the statement of the International Federation of Resistance Fighters Association of Anti-fascists on this "ideological relapse into the worst times of the cold war".
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Statement of the GUE/NGL
8 good reasons why Lagarde’s not fit for the ECB
- Before today’s vote on Christine Lagarde’s nomination as head of the European Central Bank, we offer you eight good reasons why she is unsuitable for the post.
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Analysis
The Cockfight
- Israel in the run-up to the September 2019 Knesset elections.
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Talk
Socioeconomics: Uniquely Russian Poverty
- Oleg Nikolaevich Smolin's talk at the Russian Social Forum on the current social and economical conditions and the widespread poverty - also among the working population - in Russia. With an introduction by Jirí Málek.
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Important Update (19.09.)
Asking you for solidarity
- Kerem Schamberger, Vice-Chair of transform! europe’s member organisation ISW (Institute for Social, Ecological and Economic Studies) calls for solidarity and trial monitoring.
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Statement
More on disarmament, less on arms - Left politicians say in Helsinki
- Left Parliamentarians call for negotiations, disarmament and civil crisis management instead of increasing military expenditures.
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Report
Judicial Conspiracy in Brazil: Prosecutors Plotted Against Lula
- In autumn last year, rather than an investigative judge, it should have been the Brazilian people who passed their verdict on the politics of the presidential candidate for the Workers’ Party (PT), Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, during general elections.
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Obituary
Immanuel Wallerstein 1930 – 2019
- One of the most astute thinkers of our time has left us. Immanuel Wallerstein died at the age of 88 on 31 August 2019. Read the obituary of Hannes Hofbauer for Promedia Verlag.
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Comment
A New Humanism? Then Open the Ports to the Immigrants
- After receiving the mandate to form a new government, the old and new Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, whose Five-Star Movement (M5S) is now entering a coalition with the Partito Democratico (PD), declared: ‘This is the time for a new humanism’. Read the comment by Luciana Castellina.
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Statement
Left Unity on suspension of UK Parliament
- Read here the statement of the British member organisation of the Party of the European Left, Left Unity, on the current political situation in the UK.
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Talk
Austro-Marxism beyond Left Wing Melancholy
- Walter Baier on Austro-Marxism at the International Conference ‘The Left Alternatives in the 20th Century: Drama of Ideas and Personal Stories' in Moscow.
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