Editorial
- Producing this issue of Transform ! was an exciting process. Long after we decided on the focus of right-wing extremism in Europe, the world began to move – on the one hand, with the uprising in North Africa and other Arab countries; on the other hand, the environmental catastrophe in Japan, with an earthquake, tsunami and atomic-reactor fallout. To treat these issues adequately, we tried to find authors and provide space. In this we succeeded quite well with the contributions of Gabriele Habashi, Joachim Bischoff and Elmar Altvater. However, as to the question of the use of atomic energy, the discussions seems far from over; rather it is just beginning. Left European opinion on this issue...
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Uprising in Northern Africa
Revolution in Egypt - A Live Report
- Part One Cairo, February 7 Turbulent days lay behind us and the revolution was still going on. At least, internet was back and phones working. On this day the city returned to a sort of normal...
Domino Effects in the Arab Countries: The Concern Over Crude Oil and the Contradictory Egyptian Protest Against the West
- With astonishment the world has taken note of the upheavals in Tunisia and Egypt as well as the mass protests in other countries of the Middle East and the Maghreb. While in most countries of the...
Disaster in Japan
Fukushima, Mon Horreur - The Dream of Economic Reason Gives Birth to Tremendous Catastrophes
- Co-President of the party DIE LINKE, Klaus Ernst, explained the meagre results of his party in the March 27, 2011 German regional elections (3.1% in Rhineland-Palatinate, 2.8% in Baden-Wuerttemberg)...
Essays
The Raging Tempo of the Long Decline - A Manifesto
- Between the end of feudalism and a future society, the bourgeois epoch is spread out like a battlefield on which everything is civic and cosy so long as the countries, between military wars, can revel...
Social Relations Put to the Austerity Test
- In a statement submitted to the Seoul Summit of the G20, the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD (TUAC) recalls that “the economic crisis that has disrupted the lives of so many wage earners is...
At the Heart of the “Crisis of Civilisation”: The Issue of “Living Well”
- The crisis of civilisation and the crisis of capitalism are thus closely linked: on the one hand, because capitalism is the product of western civilisation and even of its conception of progress...
The Conflict between Conflicts in the Crisis of Globalised Capitalist Civilisation
- I am not going to talk as a sociologist about class composition, about the debate over the notion of class. I will approach these indirectly. I would like to put forward some thoughts on the conflicts...
The Extreme Right in Europe
Introduction
- The thematic focus of this issue of our journal is the “radical right”. As examples, (radical) right-wing movements in Austria, Belgium, Finland, Greece, Ukraine and Hungary are addressed. In the lead...
New Aspects of the Radical Right
- Until the beginning of the 21st century, political science generally defined the “far right” differently from the conservative and the liberal right on several fundamental points, even though...
The Rise of Right-wing Populism in Finland: The True Finns
- Right-wing populist anti-immigration parties, such as the National Front in France, the Freedom Party of Austria, the Progress Party in Norway and the Danish People’s Party have done well in many...
The Hungarian Disaster
- I hate writing this article. Since I oppose the alarming authoritarian developments in my country and am pleading for the restoration of civil liberties, I might appear to be what I definitely am not:...
Three Sources of Ukraine’s “Freedom” - Nationalism, Xenophobia and the “Social Issue”
- In the last three years, the popularity of Ukraine’s right-wing party Svoboda (Freedom) has seen an eightfold increase. At the moment, the party is supported by 6% of the country’s population, though...
Economic and Institutional Crisis - Perspectives for the Belgian Social Movement
- Today the majority of the media and most analyses of the Belgian situation speak of an “institutional crisis” or a “communitarian crisis”. While this way of conceiving the Belgian situation does...
Power in Paradise: The 2010 Vienna Elections
- The Mercer 2010 Quality of Living Ranking shows that the Austrian capital of Vienna (population: 1.7 million) is the world’s best place to live. Critics remark that the criteria for this survey are...
The Financial Crisis as a Political Opportunity for the New Extreme Right - The Economic Crisis in Greece and the Popular Orthodox Rally (LAOS)
- The reinforcement of the European extreme right coincided with the crisis of the 1970s, accompanied by transformations in production, changes in social structure of European societies and the...
Challenges for the Left
Challenges for Dilma Rousseff and the Role of the Left in Brazil
- Any analysis of the political situation in Brazil cannot ignore the significance of the victory of the forces of the left and of progressives when Dilma Rousseff was elected to the presidency of the...
Against the “Pact for the Euro” - Interview with Pierre Laurent
- Europe is particularly shaken by the crisis. Faced with the explosion of public debt, the response adopted is not to remedy the causes of the crisis but to subject the populations to a super-austerity...
On the European Union
Why Germany and the Euro-Countries Need Another Europe
- The Euro-zone is undergoing a crucial test. A number of member states are unable to get out of the debt trap on their own. The major reason for the record deficits has to do with the superiority of...
The Main Stages of a Declared Ambition
- Talk at the Kossuth Klub – Transform! – Le Monde Diplomatique Conference on Poverty and Exclusion in Europe Budapest, November 4-6, 2010
The German Miracle? Interests and Orientations for Action During the Crisis – the Perspectives of Those Affected
- The economic and social map of Europe is jagged. In 2010, the production of social wealth decreased for the third year in succession in Greece, Spain and Ireland. Also, Italy and Great Britain did...
Citizenship: A Fundamental Issue for Democracy
- When I was elected to the European Parliament in June, 2009, I wanted to continue to fight as I always have for human rights and citizenship, which are not separate issues, as well as for popular...
Review
Bleak Progress
- On Michael Löwy’s Book "Juifs hétérodoxes, romantisme, messianisme, utopie" (Heterodox Jews, Romanticism, Messianism, Utopia)
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