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A Health, Social and Economic Crisis Revealing Class and Gender Antagonisms in our Society
- A Statement of the Feminism Working Group of the Party of the European Left.
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Report
The Terrible Twins ... against Sinn Féin
- More than 128 days after February's general election, and against the backdrop of 'lock down', it would appear that Ireland has a new government. This new government, if endorsed by the members of the three parties involved, is of significance for a number of reasons. A report by Darragh Golden.
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Covid-19: Treatments, Cures, Rights – An Explainer
- Read the short e-publication on the importance of health care as a common good in the light of a future Covid-19 vaccine by the GUE/NGL (European United Left / Nordic Green Left) group in the European Parliament.
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Analysis
El sector automotriz europeo – ¡Es hora de repensar la movilidad!
- Todos los sectores de la economía han sentido el impacto de la crisis del Covid-19, y la fabricación de automóviles no es la excepción. Hay 12 millones de trabajadores de la Unión Europea empleados en la industria automotriz, ya sea directamente en la producción o en la fabricación de piezas, y el...
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La pandemia como parte de una crisis de civilización mucho más amplia
- La crisis del Covid-19 ya ha matado a cientos de miles de personas en todo el mundo. Los políticos y la sociedad en general se han centrado correctamente en combatir el virus. Sin embargo, por debajo de la pandemia hay una catástrofe ambiental que está explotando a cámara lenta. La crisis del COVID-19 es solo una pequeña parte de este rompecabezas.
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Right2Cure Initiative to push Commission on Universal Access to Covid-19 Vaccines
- The left group in the European Parliament is joining forces with left-wing parties and grassroots organisations from across Europe to launch a major campaign of mobilisation in support of free and universal access to a Covid-19 vaccine.
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Entrevista
Enrique Santiago: “Hay que reconstruir lo común, lo que nunca debió ser privatizado.”
- Enrique Santiago, Secretario General del Partido Comunista de España y diputados en el Congreso de los Diputados de España, donde participa de la Comisión sobre la Reconstrucción Social y Económica del país
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Comment
Politics in the Face of a Climate Disaster
- 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."
- Enrique Santiago was the guest in the eighth edition of transform! europe's webinar series “Meeting the Left”.
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Foro Europeo de fuerzas de izquierda, ecologistas y progresistas 2020
Black Lives Matter: Combatamos juntos el racismo y los determinantes que lo permiten
- La muerte por asfixia del ciudadano George Floyd provocada por agentes de la policía de Minneápolis ha generado en todo el planeta una oleada – a la cuál nos sumamos – de indignación y denuncia del racismo y la xenofobia, así como de la brutalidad policial y la frecuente impunidad estructural del...
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Report
Las elecciones presidenciales de Polonia: plagadas de homofobia de derechas
- Si bien la amenaza de la pandemia aún se cierne sobre Polonia, el país irá a las urnas a fin de mes para votar por un nuevo presidente. La elección está dominada por los candidatos de los dos principales partidos de derecha, con el actual presidente Andrzej Duda usando la propaganda homófoba como tema central en su campaña.
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Analysis
La búsqueda de mayorías: la fricción entre los conservadores de la UE
- Ante los desafíos actuales, la UE se encuentra en una encrucijada. Ya sea que, como consorcio de estados-naciones fuertes, se convierta en un nuevo tipo de zona de libre comercio o intervenga en el futuro como actor independiente en conflictos globales, dependerá en gran medida de las fuerzas conservadoras, la fuerza política más influyente.
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Personal Report
The Strike of Turkish Workers in Kaunas: On the “transparent” Municipality, the “terrorist” Trade Union, and the Victories of Solidarity
- Jurgis Valiukevičius, co-founder of the 1st May Labor Union on the labour dispute of Turkish workers in Lithuania.
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Analysis
Economic Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic in the Czech Republic
- 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.”
- 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."
- 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
- 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?
- 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
- 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."
- 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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