While the crisis management has pushed forward measures damaging collective bargaining and so-called labour market reforms, precariousness has been skyrocketing ever since.
China already overtook the United States as the strongest economy in the world (in Purchasing Power Parity). Among the first 10 countries are five transition countries. These five show a higher Gross Domestic Product than the five leading countries of the “old metropolies”. In 2030 the transition...
The multiple crises put the European left parties and social movements under pressure to find answers to often contradicting challenges. One of these many challenges lies at the heart of this project.
In 2015 climate issues seem to be at the top of the political agenda, as is shown by the United Nations Climate Change Conference to be held in Paris towards the end of the year. Most of the head of states and governments will attend what is already being described as the hugest international summit...
The World Social Forum (WSF) is an open meeting place where social movements, networks, NGOs and other civil society organizations opposed to neo-liberalism and a world dominated by capital or by any form of imperialism come together to pursue their thinking, to debate ideas democratically, for...
More than 40 years ago, feminists among Marxists in many countries spoke out. They criticized the concept of labour that was then commonly used in Marxism, they criticized value theory, views on domestic labour and the family, the way of dealing and interacting with each other and with the nature...
The blackmail against the new Greek government by the ECB and the German government clearly shows the significance of the Blockupy protest on this day of the ECB opening on March 18th and at this place in Frankfurt with the new ECB headquarter. It is the ECB which enforces austerity politics and the...
Speaking about education means pointing something essential in society: formation of personalities of citizens and printing a mark in collective culture.
For years, neo-liberalism has a distraint on educational systems in Europe. Results: a school policy which destroys the social cohesion, ruins...
The purpose of the conference is to continue the debate on the ecological and equitable alternatives to mainstream economy and thinking, this time by raising the central issue of alternatives to global Capitalism and on possibilities for a No-Growth Agenda.
The severity of the crisis, together with the brutality of its management, has brought back critical EU issues at the top of social movements’ agenda across Europe and accelerated the process of their Europeanization – understood as a growing articulation of local struggles with the European...
Following the work undertaken by the transform! Akademia Working Group on Science and Democracy, a one-day workshop will be held in Paris.
It aims at gathering researchers and unionists from the higher education sector in order to discuss the state of the European university system, its risks and...
The crisis has had profound consequences for the radical left in Europe, and Syriza’s victory is simultaneously an example and a challenge for all its components.
Blockupy calls for a strong international participation in the actions on 18 March, the day when the European Central Bank (ECB) wants to open its new headquarters in Frankfurt. There will not only be a disobedient mass action on 18 March itself, but also a diversity of demonstrations, blockades and other forms of direct actions around it.