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  • transform! europe: AKADEMIA Network

  • 25 May 12
  • Who are we? transform! europe is a European network for alternative thinking and political dialogue formed by 23 organizations from 17 countries, active in the field of political education and critical scientific analysis. In the context of the dramatic crisis there are new potentialities of...
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  • Left-wing Organizations of Russia call for Solidarity and Support

  • 25 May 12
  • Comrades! Today, we activists of left-wing organizations of Russia turn to you for solidarity and support! In Russia, an open strife between a broad democratic movement and the corrupted authoritarian oligarchical regime is broken out. The authorities rigged the results of parliament and...
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  • Election in France

  • By Elisabeth Gauthier | 14 May 12
  • First and foremost, Hollande’s election is a clear rebuff for the “President of the Rich” and the power of the oligarchy he embodies which has become stronger in the crisis. In spite of the relief felt about Sarkozy having been voted out, the mood can by no means be compared to 1981 (Mitterand’s...
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  • An Initial Evaluation of the Recent Elections in Italy

  • By Giorgio Riolo | 14 May 12
  • An initial rough evaluation: The right (PdL-Berlusconi and Lega Nord, Northern League) has suffered a defeat; the Third Pole – the moderate centre and major support for the Monti government – has been punished; the Democratic Party has not made progress; Italy of Values (Idv) has had a good result;...
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  • Calls and Initiatives for Changing Europe

  • 19 Apr 12
  • Please find here – and sign! - an important new call initiated by German leading figures of organized labor and intellectuals which wants to influence public opinion in Germany and Europe.
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  • Alternative World Water Forum and Rio+20

  • By Chantal Delmas | 02 Apr 12
  • The Alternative World Water Forum (AWWF) took place in Marseille from 14 to 17 March. The official Forum on Water took place at the same time. The latter was a strikingly bitter failure, with only 3,000 participants of the 20,000 expected. The AWWF, on the other hand, with far less resources,...
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  • 1 March 2012: Transnational Migrants’ Strike

  • By Barbara Steiner | 29 Feb 12
  • 1 March has become a symbolic day for transnational migrants’ strike. The activists refer to the term “strike“ not only in its literal meaning connected to work and labour – they also want to strike against the racist normality we have to live in. The transnational protests on 1 March were...
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  • Obituary for Theo Angelopoulos (1935 – 2012)

  • By Aliki Kosyfologou | 29 Feb 12
  • Theodore Angelopoulos was the son of a Greek civil war hostage who returned home when Angelopoulos was 9 years old. The absence of his parent and the sense that a great part of the Greek society was left “voiceless” marked his childhood irreparably and had a huge impact on his cinematography...
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