Preface
- Never before in the history of our network and journal has there been a year like 2015 in which the radical left – along with many unpoliticised people – has learned so much about what its possibilities and limits are within the European Union’s neoliberal architecture.
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The Enigma of Europe
More Than Ever: For Another Europe! August 2015 Theses [1]
- The general impression one has today is of an impasse in the structure of the European Union as a democratic project benefiting its populations and contributing to a better world. As an adherent of...
The First Months of a Long Struggle
- On 12 November 2015, Leo Panitch and Hilary Wainwright spoke with Jeremy Corbyn on a train to London from Birmingham where he had been meeting with union shop stewards.
The Complexity of the Reform that Europe Needs and the Challenges for the Left
- Editorial note: This article is not part of the printed version of the English yearbook edition. It is available only online. The shock of what we can only call the defeat of the European Union's...
When Winter Came in July: The Left Has to Rethink Europe
- After the Paris attacks, Europe froze into a winter of icy fear. But contrary to the media’s image, the threat, which is exploited to enforce surveillance and tightened border controls, is at least as...
What Happened in Greece – What Was Possible – What Is a Feasible Europe-wide Programme Now?
- Haris Golemis: The goal of Syriza before the elections of 25 January 2015 and of the government that was subsequently formed was to negotiate with the creditors over the abolition of the memoranda, to...
The Fall of Europe and the Ceding of Sovereign Power to the European Central Bank
- Can a Democratic Europe be Built By De-privatising Political Power?
Financialisation – Secular Stagnation – Neoliberal Austerity
- The political, social, and cultural upheavals of recent decades can be understood as aspects of an epochal transformation of capitalism. The social practice of regulated capitalism growing out of the...
Notes on Nature, Crisis, and Domination
- In preparing for this congress,[1] I thought back to a paper I delivered together with Adelheid Biesecker in 2014 on multiple crises and social contracts.[2] Our point of departure was that political...
European Employment Policy: A Political Landscape
- The European Commission plays a leading role in shaping European employment policy through programmes and legislation. The following is a brief outline of the European Parliament that was elected in...
Transformation Strategies: Productive Reconstruction and the Commons
Twofold Transformation: Strategic Challenges for the Left
- The origins of transformation: The Great French Revolution and the Declaration of Human and Civil Rights All of us, whether we are we are politically on the left or the right, act in the light cast...
A Renaissance of Industrial Policy in the EU: The Challenge for the European Left
- The EU’s continuing financial and economic crisis, which began in 2008, has shifted the focus of political debates at the European Commission and the European Parliament (EP) towards the importance of...
Notes on Productive Reconstruction in the Southern Periphery of the European Union
- External account imbalances, investments and profits: which come first? From its very beginnings the crisis has generated many interpretations and consequently recipes to solve it. Among...
Towards a Society of the Commons[1]
- The re-emergence of the commons For much of the history of industrial and post-industrial capitalism, political conflict has been between state and market, the issue being whether to use state...
The Common: An Essay on the 21st-Century Revolution
- Our point of departure is that the common is a principle of political activity constituted by the specific activity of deliberation, judgement, decision, and the implementation of decisions. However,...
Mutualism Between Tradition and Modernity [1]
- One of the most important trade-union and political leaders of the Italian labour movement, Vittorio Foa (1910-2008), explained the reason for his study on the birth of the labour movement, both...
Care Revolution: A Feminist-Marxist Transformation Strategy from the Perspective of Caring for Each Other
- Concern for one’s own wellbeing is as essential to human existence as concern for others. Beginning with, and especially at, birth, people are dependent on the care of others, without which they could...
The Commons and Global Sustainable Information Society (GSIS)
- The age of global challenges The information age is the age of the societies into which industrialised societies are transforming, as seen in the spread of new information and communication...
The Greek Water Referendum and the Distinction Between Public and Common Goods
- The last decade in Western Europe has seen a dynamic of remunicipalisation in the water and energy sectors that is part of a global trend.1 Especially in the water sector, one municipality after...
Cooperativism and Self-management in Italy
- The discussion and the movement underway around the issue of the commons – common goods is the term used in Italy – benefits from knowing something of its prehistory. This is particularly true for our...
Debate
For Fundamental Reform of the European Economic and Monetary Union
- How should the European Monetary Union be reformed? The president of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, ‘in close cooperation’ with the presidents of the European Council, the Eurogroup,...
Neither Eurofetishism nor Nationalism: A Third Way for an Emancipatory Europe Policy
- The European Union’s many crises are being expressed in all manner of centrifugal tendencies, fragmentation, and erosion. By the time of the 2008 financial crisis it became apparent that only the...
Country Reports
Rekindling Hope: Syriza’s Challenges and Prospects
- Before turning to the main theme of this article it would be very useful to come to terms with at least the following preliminary observations: The left in government and especially the radical left...
The UK and the EU Referendum
- Sometime before the end of 2017 – and most probably in 2016 – the British people will face a referendum on the country’s membership of the European Union. The referendum was a pledge included in the...
Scotland and the Crisis of the British State
- For more than twenty years the most radical developments in British politics have taken place in Scotland. The situation may be changing, not because Scotland is less radical, but because the forces...
Transformation of the Czech Republic: New Challenges and Problems
- The transformation process in the Czech Republic is a complex combination of economic and political dynamics. It represents the same logic that has underlain similar post-1989 processes in other...
Russia: The Illusion of Accord – The Reality of Confrontation
- An objective critical and constructive analysis of Russian reality is typically impeded by widespread myths. Most notably, there is the myth of the totalitarian sole dictator – the omnipotent Russian...
Austerity Measures and Labour Law Reforms in Spain: A New Standard?
- The economic and sovereign debt crisis is having a particularly strong impact on Spain and its labour market. In comparison with other EU countries, Spain has lost more jobs, more rapidly, than other...
Activity Report
transform! europe 2015 at a Glance
- To my co-workers, comrades and friends Barbara, Katerina, Heidi, Dagmar, and Eva. In gratitude for their help and patience. For over fifteen years, transform! has been working as a horizontal network...
Book Order
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- Yearbook as eBook available soon. THE ENIGMA OF EUROPE. transform! 2016Edited by Walter Baier, Eric Canepa and Eva Himmelstoss Merlin Press Ltdwww.merlinpress.co.uk | Direct link hereISBN...
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