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Interview
Enrique Santiago: 'We must rebuild the commons, which should never have been privatised.'
24 Jun 20
Enrique Santiago, Secretary General of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE), and Deputy Spokesperson for Unidas Podemos in the Spanish Parliament on current measures to combat the economic crisis.
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Commentary
Politics in the Face of a Climate Disaster
By Egidijus Mardosas | 23 Jun 20
In 2015, when the Paris Agreement was still under negotiations, British journalist Paul Mason expressed his doubts whether the agreement would be signed and wrote that such climate conferences „resemble the peace treaties that paved the way to the Second World War."[1] Although Mason was wrong about...
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Statement
Enrique Santiago: "A government with Unidas Podemos has meant greater protection for workers in the Coronacrisis."
19 Jun 20
Enrique Santiago was the guest in the eighth edition of transform! europe's webinar series “Meeting the Left”.
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Report
Poland’s Presidential Election plagued by Right-Wing Homophobia
By Gavin Rae | 17 Jun 20
Whilst the threat of the pandemic still hangs over Poland, the country is going to the polls at the end of the month to vote for its new President. The election is dominated by candidates from the two main right-wing parties, with the incumbent Andrzej Duda using homophobic propaganda as a central theme in his campaign.
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Analysis
The Search for Majorities: The Friction Among the EU’s Conservatives
By Cornelia Hildebrandt | 16 Jun 20
In the face of current challenges, the EU is at a crossroad. Whether, as a consortium of strong nation-states, it develops into a new type of free-trade zone or intervenes in the future as an independent actor in global conflicts will strongly depend on the conservative forces that constitute the single most politically influential force in the EU.
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Analysis
Economic Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic in the Czech Republic
By Ilona Švihlíková | 16 Jun 20
The Czech Republic has so far fared well in containing the pandemic. However, the economic consequences of the lockdown and the rapidly worsening situation in the world economy are yet to come. This article deals with economic measures implemented to mitigate the economic consequences of the pandemic through the eyes of political economy.
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Statement
Clémentine Autain: "Social democracy has failed. We need to invent something new."
10 Jun 20
Clémentine Autain was the guest in the seventh edition of transform! europe's webinar series “Meeting the Left”.
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Statement
Manon Aubry: "The Recovery Package put forward by the European Commission means Austerity."
09 Jun 20
Manon Aubry, together with Martin Schirdewan Co-President of the GUE/NGL group, was the guest in the sixth edition of transform! europe's webinar series Meeting the Left. She is former spokesperson for Oxfam, and since 2019 a Member of the European Parliament for France Insoumise.
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Analysis
Set It Off: The Current Uprising is a Chance to Reset American History
03 Jun 20
George Floyd is seen on video pleading “I can’t breathe, please help.” He later calls for his mother. Eight minutes, 46 seconds later, Floyd was dead.
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Analysis
The German Federal Constitutional Court’s 5th of May ruling: a game changer in the Eurozone?
By Antoine de Cabanes | 29 May 20
On 5 May, the German Constitutional Court’s ruling questioned the legality of the European Central Bank (ECB)’s purchases of sovereign bonds, which play a key role in preventing an implosion of the Eurozone. Where is this judgement coming from and what are its political, legal and macroeconomic potential consequences?
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Announcement
"Lūžis" – New Left-Wing Magazine in Lithuania Out Now
By Andrius Bielskis , Jurgis Valiukevičius , Egidijus Mardosas | 29 May 20
DEMOS Institute of Critical Thought, supported by transform! europe, has launched the first issue of its magazine Lūžis (Fracture). Lūžis is one of the rare left-wing magazines in Lithuania edited by progressive academics, political activists and trade unionists from Vilnius and Kaunas.
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Statement
Arnaldo Otegi (EH Bildu, Basque Country): "The government must now decide what it wants. We will not be satisfied with aesthetic changes."
26 May 20
Otegi: "Today's minimum revolutionary programme is the redistribution of wealth, the self-determination of peoples, a feminist agenda, a joint action against climate change, decisive resistance against authoritarianism, a pro-peace attitude and the launch of a civic and anti-oligarchic political-economic project”.
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Statement
Heinz Bierbaum calls for a 'European Health Care Fund of 100 Billion Euros – financed by the ECB'
25 May 20
Heinz Bierbaum, President of the Party of the European Left (EL), in the interview with transform! europe, discussing the crisis of our social and economic system and the new position paper of the EL.
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Obituary
Good Bye, Julio.
19 May 20
The Collegiate Commission of Izquierda Unida (IU, United Left) remembers Julio Anguita, the former General Coordinator of IU, who passed away on 16 May.
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Statement
Katja Kipping: "If we want Europe, Europe must show solidarity. So it does matter who rules in Germany."
15 May 20
The second guest in transform!’s series "Meeting the Left" was Katja Kipping, Co-Chairperson of the party Die LINKE. The conversation largely focussed on European politics.
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Statement
Catarina Martins (Left Bloc, Portugal): 'If the EU won’t be able to answer the crisis, the EU will hardly survive'
13 May 20
Catarina Martins, National Coordinator of the Portuguese party Bloco de Esquerda (Left Bloc) proposes the 'creation of a Recovery Fund of 1.5 billion euros, directly funded by the ECB and makes the case for the building alliances between peripheral economies, such as the Portuguese one, for example around the demand for public debt restructuring.'
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Statement
8 and 9 May 2020 mark the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War
08 May 20
Read the statement of Heinz Bierbaum, President of the party of the European Left.
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