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  • Conference report

  • Economic Democracy and Self-Governance in Enterprises

  • 18 Feb 20
  • The conference “Economic democracy and self-governance in enterprise: history, theories, perspectives” can be considered as one of the main arrival points of the project “Democracy as self-government” in 2019, proposed to Transform!Europe by Sinistra XXI, Italian leftist think tank.
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  • Brexit Britain

  • By Andrew Burgin | 18 Feb 20
  • The Labour Party was decisively defeated in the UK general election of December 2019. The most immediate result is that the UK has now left the European Union. Brexit however does not just mean leaving the European Union but it represents the victory of a global far-right phenomenon; Trump in the...
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  • Unlimited Liberal Feminism in Lithuania

  • By Jolanta Bielskienė | 14 Feb 20
  • When thinking about the situation of feminism in Lithuania, the film Kramer vs. Kramer springs to mind. Or, perhaps it would be better to say that what arises is discussion within feminist circles about this film, decades after it was first seen on the screen.
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  • Annual Red Books Day

  • 10 Feb 20
  • The International Peoples' Assembly proposes the organization of an international annual Red Books Day on February 21st, the day of the original publishing of the Communist Manifesto.
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  • Speech at EL Congress

  • Give the struggles of our times

  • By Jussi Saramo | 07 Feb 20
  • When I joined the Left Alliance 20 years ago 13% of the Finnish people said that they could vote for the Left and almost all of them actually did it since in the elections we had 11 or even 12% of votes. Most of those voters were very old so it looked inevitable that the party would shrink and...
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  • Vladimir Putin’s January Constitutional Coup

  • By Veronika Sušová-Salminen | 06 Feb 20
  • The constitutional reform that Vladimir Putin presented on 15th January 2020 was a surprise, especially for those who are not following Russia’s domestic political developments. The possibility of a significant transfer of powers from the president to the Duma (parliament) has been discussed repeatedly over the course of the past year.
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  • Thuringia

  • A Breach in Germany’s Political Levee

  • By Paul Welsow | 06 Feb 20
  • The election of Thomas Kemmerich (FDP) as the new Minister President of Thuringia on 5 February 2020 represents a political breach of historic dimensions. For the first time, a Minister President will come to power with the votes of the nationalist Alternative für Deutschland (AfD).
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  • European Left Congress

  • 03 Feb 20
  • The Party of the European Left (PEL) held its sixth congress in the Spanish town of Benalmádena, near Málaga. The event took place between 13 and 15 December 2019 and brought together over 400 delegates representing 25 political parties from more than twenty European countries. Izquierda Unida and the Spanish Communist Party hosted the conference.
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  • The Strikes in France

  • By Paul Elek | 03 Feb 20
  • Since the 5th of December 2019, France is witnessing its biggest strike since either 1995 or as some mention May 68, though the number of participants is of course way less important than in that mythical year.
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  • Is there an new chance for the Austrian Left?

  • The Fine Old and the Poor New

  • By Walter Baier | 03 Feb 20
  • (Not only) The Left justly criticizes that by signing the government agreement the Greens have facilitated a continuation of the conservative and right-wing extremist strategy regarding refugee and migration policies. This criticism will become louder and possibly also lead to the break-up of the coalition.
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  • Speech at EL Congress

  • Unity of the Party, unity of the struggles

  • By Paolo Ferrero | 24 Jan 20
  • Dear comrades,  We did succeed in having a congress of unity, with a shared political document and - as it seems - a common proposal upon the leadership. This is a very positive result. Now we need to decide how we could use such a document.  First of all, the European Left Party must work towards...
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  • Background article

  • Stop The Reform Of European Stability Mechanism

  • By Paola Boffo | 23 Jan 20
  • In Italy, a discussion developed, first in the media and then in the parliamentary halls, about the proposed reform of the European Stability Mechanism treaty, which should be approved by Eurozone leaders at the Euro summit on December 13th. The leader of the Northern League sovereign party, Matteo...
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