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Comment
Greece’s New Authoritarian and Undemocratic Rule
- The recently elected right-wing New Democracy government is completely in the service of the 'law and order' doctrine.
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Report
Madrid, dominated by the extreme right, continues to cry out No pasarán!
- On 30 October the Madrid City Council approved the celebration on 23 August of the Day of European Remembrance of the Victims of Stalinism and Nazism to pay homage to the victims of the communist and National Socialist regimes and other totalitarian and authoritarian regimes’, following an initiative promoted by the ultra-right group Vox.
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Statement
Climate Emergeny Declaration Needs Overarching Social Transformation
- Read the statement of the GUE/NGL group on the climate emergency declaration of the EU parliament.
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Book Review
'The Art of Changing Capitalism' – A Transformational Polemic
- When the left thinks about alternatives they usually envision struggles. Already Marx and Engels understood the history of all societies up to then as 'the history of class struggles'. Wolfgang Kessler, chief editor for more than twenty years of the Publik-Forum – a left-oriented Catholic journal – shows that these struggles also require an art.
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Opinión
Gobierno de coalición progresista en España. Unidas Podemos estará en el gobierno del país.
- El domingo 10 de noviembre hubo elecciones generales en España y 48 horas más tarde, los líderes del PSOE y de Unidas Podemos (UP), Pedro Sánchez y Pablo Iglesias, anunciaron un gobierno de coalición de izquierdas en España. Lea el artículo de Marga Ferré y el acyerdo entre el PSOE y UP.
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Expert Opinion
Expert Opinion On the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's 'Working Definition of Antisemitism'
- Ullrich: 'inconsistent, contradictory and formulated very vaguely’. The ‘use of the Working Definition of Antisemitism cannot be recommended.'
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Report
XII Race and Walk Llluís Companys: Commemoration of the Peoples' Olympiad of 1936
- On Saturday, 19 October, transform! europe’s member organisation Fundació l’Alternativa celebrated the XII edition of the Race and Walk Lluís Companys – an event that bundles historical memory, giving voice to republican values, sports and culture. An active and festive way of claiming peace culture and solidarity between peoples and nations.
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Statement
#LulaLivre: The Struggle for Justice in Brazil Makes Progress
- It is with joy that we followed live images of the release of Brazil’s former President Lula da Silva from incarceration. Lula’s imprisonment since April 2018 was the result of an unfair political process, part of an institutional coup that led to President Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment, to prevent...
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Interview
Manon Aubry (LFI): ‘We are still very far from having the European Parliament exerting democratic control over the executive.’
- This is a first in the balance of power between the Commission – the EU executive – and the European Parliament. Even before the scrutiny of the candidates for the future College of Commissioners, headed by Ursula von der Leyen, began on 30 September, two candidates were blocked by a majority of...
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Carta abierta
Respeto a la memoria histórica en Europa
- La dirección de transform! europa lanza la siguiente carta abierta sobre la resolución "Europa debe recordar su pasado para construir su futuro", adoptada por la mayoría del Parlamento Europeo, rechazada por el grupo GUE / NGL.
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European Arms & Turkey’s Attack on Syrian Kurds – An Explainer
- On the involvement of various European countries in Turkey's aggression and human rights violations in Syria.
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Report
Municipal Elections in Hungary
- Significant political changes in Hungary: In the larger cities, the fragmented opposition parties and civil organizations were able to increase their support due to the collaboration of different opposition factions. As a result of the disproportionate electoral system, in some places opposition was able to obtain a significant majority.
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Report
Building Left Visions from Ireland to the Urals? – Report on the Russian Social Forum (RSF)
- Jirí Málek on the necessity of a dialogue between leftists in Russia and other European countries.
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Elections
Hope for Polish Left?!
- The 2019 Polish parliamentary elections were held on 13 October 2019. All 460 members of the Sejm and 100 senators of the Senate were elected. The ruling PiS win the elections, far-right enters the parliament, whilst the left returns to parliament.
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Conference Report
Is Nationalism Obsolete?
- Is nationalism capable of dealing with, or even addressing, the issues of our time? Dealing with this question, the Balkan Society for Theory and Practice (BSTP) – supported by transform! europe – held its second annual workshop in Prishtina, Kosovo.
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Analysis
The Phantom Pain: The Outcome of the Portuguese National Elections
- Social democrats and left parties reach 61% of the mandates at the National Assembly; the right attains a smashing defeat; three new political forces enter the parliament, including the far-right; lowest turnout ever (54.5% and minus 300,000 votes)
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Comisión Colegiadade Izquierda Unida –14/10/2019La
IU reclama la puesta en marcha de medidas para solucionar la situación política en Cataluña tras la sentencia del "procés"
- La judicialización de los sucesos políticos conocidos como “el procés” nunca debería haber ocurrido. Es una muestra de la incapacidad que han tenido la mayoría de fuerzas políticas implicadas para abordar dialogada mente un problema que es estrictamente político, ni de orden público ni judicial. 40...
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Obituary
Commemorating the Fortieth Anniversary of the Death of Nicos Poulantzas
- 3 October 2019 was the fortieth commemoration of the death of Nicos Poulantzas. Poulantzas was a Franco-Greek constitutional-law scholar, student of Louis Althusser, and is still today among the most important of Marxist state theorists. His understanding of the state as the ‘material...
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Statement of the GUE/NGL
EU Must Work to Stop Erdogan’s Attack Against Syrian Kurds
- As Turkish troops prepare to invade the Kurdish autonomous areas in northeast Syria, Left MEP Özlem Demirel (DIE LINKE, Germany) appealed for urgent efforts to put a stop to the threat. “The European Union and the international community must condemn in the strongest terms this aggressive and...
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Report
“Confronting Climate Change – Red-Green Transformation in Europe and globally”
- Transform!Danmark organized its eighth international conference in Copenhagen in spring 2019, continuing the debate on the development of left economic and ecological alternatives.
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