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Analysis
Bulgarian protests: battles over anti-corruption?
- The ‘Anti-corruption’ fight in Bulgaria that erupted again on 9 July is caught in a clash between two conflicting concepts of what is at stake.
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On Robots and Sheep
- A short introduction to historical materialism and its significance for the understanding of contemporary capitalism.
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Statement
Acerbo: 'A general strike launched by European's trade unions could force the ECB to revise its policy and change the way it works.'
- Maurizio Acerbo, National Secretary of the Rifondazione Comunista (Communist Refoundation Party, Italy), was the guest in transform! europe's webinar series Meeting the Left.
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Statement of the GUE/NGL
MEPs prepare to slate summit deal and defend real recovery
- Decrying EU leaders’ hatchet job on the long-term budget and recovery plan, the GUE/NGL group will join the vast majority in the European Parliament in passing a resolution that strongly criticises the conclusions of last weekend’s summit. The lack of ambition shown in the context of the biggest...
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Election Results: Basque Autonomous Community
- A regional election for the Parliament of the Basque Autonomous Community was held on 12th July. The Basque Nationalist Party (Renew) was the election winner and got 31 seats (+3), despite losing 50,000 votes. EH Bildu achieved an outstanding result with an increase of four seats and 6% of the vote.
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Release
Breaking with Transition
- The Balkan Society for Theory and Practice (BSTP) recently published a special issue of Feminist Critique: “Breaking with Transition: Decolonial and Postcolonial Perspectives in Eastern Europe”, in collaboration with Feminist Critique Journal. This issue is the result of the presentations at the 2018 BSTP workshop, supported by transform! europe.
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Commentary
The Ultimate Cathartic Function of Iconoclasm. Or When the Whites Started Noticing All those Bronze Statues.
- At the end of 2017, a train was bringing me to Rotterdam, where I would move. When in Antwerp, I assisted to a profoundly embarrassing dialogue. A guy from Varese, Italy – a tattoo artist – was pressing a woman from the U.S. – a visual artist – with the question 'where are you from, exactly?' After...
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Shortlist Unveiled for 2020 GUE/NGL Award for Whistleblowers & Journalists
- Dedicated to individuals or groups who have been intimidated and/or persecuted for uncovering the truth and exposing it to the public, this year’s award of the European United Left/Nordic Green Left group in the European Parliament is once again named in honour of the late Maltese journalist, Daphne Caruana Galizia.
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Review
Communist Intellectuals in Western Europe. A Comparative Study of France, Austria, Italy and the United Kingdom (1945-1956)
- In today’s world, it seems difficult to fathom the pull Stalinist communism exerted on many western European intellectuals. In his postdoctoral thesis written at the University of Giessen, Thomas Kroll puts forth a new and comprehensive analysis of the causes and manifestations of this attraction, a...
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Report
1.5°C degree temperature rise could come even sooner than expected
- According to new climate predictions published by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on 8 July, there is a 20% chance that one of the next five years (2020-2024) will be at least 1.5°C warmer than pre-industrial levels – and the risk is increasing.
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A call for a new European social contract
- Call for a new progressive and democratic front in Europe. A statement of intellectuals and academics initiated by, amongst others, Costas Douzinas, President of the Nicos Poulantzas Institute, a transform! europe member organization.
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Report
The Elections and the Pandemic. The French Municipal Elections 2020
- The municipal elections are an important event of French politics. Indeed, after the presidential election, these are the elections that usually benefit from the highest turnout. 35,416 municipal councils were to be elected; however, as a result of the pandemic, they took place under very special conditions.
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Statement of the Party of the European Left
Bierbaum on the French Local Elections: 'When the left and green forces unite, they can sparkle a social and ecological transformation.'
- Read the statement of the President of the Party of the European Left (EL), Heinz Bierbaum.
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Statement
Luka Mesec: 'We need a strong European left-wing alternative.'
- Luka Mesec, MP and Coordinator of the Slovenian Levica (The Left), was the guest in the ninth edition of transform! europe's webinar series ‘Meeting the Left’. He spoke of the pandemic’s exposure of many shortcomings of capitalist systems, and pointed to opportunities for left politics.
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A Health, Social and Economic Crisis Revealing Class and Gender Antagonisms in our Society
- A Statement of the Feminism Working Group of the Party of the European Left.
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Report
The Terrible Twins ... against Sinn Féin
- More than 128 days after February's general election, and against the backdrop of 'lock down', it would appear that Ireland has a new government. This new government, if endorsed by the members of the three parties involved, is of significance for a number of reasons. A report by Darragh Golden.
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Covid-19: Treatments, Cures, Rights – An Explainer
- Read the short e-publication on the importance of health care as a common good in the light of a future Covid-19 vaccine by the GUE/NGL (European United Left / Nordic Green Left) group in the European Parliament.
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Analysis
The European Automotive Sector – Time to Rethink Mobility!
- Every sector of the economy has felt the impact of the coronavirus crisis, and car manufacturing is no exception. There are 12 million EU workers employed in the automotive industry, either directly in production or in parts manufacturing, and the sector accounts for 7% of the union’s GDP.[1] If we...
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The Pandemic as Part of a Much Broader Crisis of Civilisation
- The corona crisis has already killed hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. Politicians and society as a whole have rightly focused on combating the virus. However, underneath the pandemic there is still an environmental catastrophe exploding in slow motion. The corona crisis is only a small part of this puzzle.
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Right2Cure Initiative to push Commission on Universal Access to Covid-19 Vaccines
- The left group in the European Parliament is joining forces with left-wing parties and grassroots organisations from across Europe to launch a major campaign of mobilisation in support of free and universal access to a Covid-19 vaccine.
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