On the Occasion of the 50th Anniversary of his Death.
This event, organised at the University of French Guiana, by the Frantz Fanon Circle in Martinique and in cooperation with transform! europe and Espaces Marx, brought together 40 speakers from the entire world (Japan, Bolivia, Colombia, the...
The seminar about labour staged by Espaces Marx in Paris, on 18 November, brought together during the whole day, some fifty trade unionists, researchers and political activists.
There was a broad consensus on the decisive place occupied by work in our lives, as well as on the transformations...
On 9 December 2011 the transform! Brussels Working Group organised a conference on “Radical Perspectives on European Union Studies”.
The conference aimed to complete the first year of work of the Working Group and to complement the conference organised on 8-9 December by transform! europe in the...
For the first time ever in the post-soviet area, a person is threatened with 1 year in prison just for questionining one version of one historical event. The freedom of speech is at stake in Lithuania, a NATO and EU member state. Authorities in Lithuania are politically persecuting journalist, human...
From November 11th - 13th there was in Kiev an international conference on the rise of the far right. The conference "Alternatives to the rise of the far right in times of economic, social and ecological crises" was organized by the „Prague Spring II network against right wing-extremism and...
The 2nd Edition of the Joint Social Conference in Romania was organized by the AD FSR together with CSDR TU Confederation, SIPA ‘Muntenia’ TU of Arges County and FSLI TU Federation on the 22nd of October 2011 in Bucharest as part of the enlargement of the European Joint Social Conference process....
The ELP deeply condemns the renewed attacks against the Hungarian Association of Resistance Fighters and Antifascists (MEASZ) and personally Vilmos Hanti chairman of the Hungarian Association and of FIR (Fédération Internationale des Résistants). Vilmos Hanti protested publicly against the...
Andy Storey (University College Dublin), Dominique Plihon (Attac France) and Hilary Wainwright (Transnational Institute) share their perspectives on the EU economic crisis as it unravels in Ireland and France, and its impact on labour (Interviewed in Brussels, 11/12 October 2011).
Andy Storey
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On October 15, inspired by the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ movement, the ‘indignants’ took to the streets in 951 cities in 82 countries from Asia to Europe, Africa and the Americas.
They had good reasons to do so.
According to the latest ‘World Wealth report’ the wealth of the 10,9 million world’s ‘high...