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  • Preliminary Analysis, Results, Evaluation

  • The European elections from a left perspective

  • 21 Mar 14
  • The European elections on May 22 - 25 will be crucial. They offer the possibility for the European populations to give their verdict on the policy of the institutions and to express their expectations and hopes for change. transform! europe will present on its website preliminary analysis,...
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  • transform! Research Project

  • European Perceptions in the Crisis

  • 21 Mar 14
  • This transform! research project is investigating political perceptions in the crisis and aims at understanding subjective paths of resignation and rebellion regarding capitalist domination. From materials such as opinion surveys or more qualitative studies, it seeks to characterize the evolution of...
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  • From the Bologna Process to the Dismissal of a Dean:

  • The Pretext for Privatization of Greek Higher Education

  • Por Maria Nikolakaki | 20 Mar 14
  • Higher education reforms, by using a discourse of quality, competitiveness and “attractiveness” of the university, are of the most important risks going on in many countries, as they are connected not only with issues such as the denigration of university as a public good with the relative reduction of national funds, the promotion of entrepreneurship, marketization processes and commercialization of knowledge, but they are also connected with student-debt and control of the future generations.
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  • Slovenia

  • Founding Congress of the Initiative for Democratic Socialism

  • Por Anej Korsika | 19 Mar 14
  • On 8 March, the “Initiative for Democratic Socialism” (IDS) had its founding congress and officially transformed itself into a political party. In the invitation to the congress we have written that in the last twenty years all political parties in Slovenia have been representatives of one and the same fraction, the fraction of capital. We have emphasized that it is high time Slovenia gets a proper socialist party that openly and consciously represents a socialist alternative to both, the crisis in Slovenia as well as the crisis in European Union.
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  • Videos Online

  • Freedom of Information Under Pressure

  • 14 Mar 14
  • About 280 participants have been at the international conference on 28 February and 1 March entitled Freedom of Information under Pressure: Control - Crisis - Culture, organized by the University of Vienna, transform!at and the Critical Librarians Association (KRIBIBI) at the Vienna University. ...
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  • Press Release of CP of Austria

  • An “Austrian” Solution for Ukraine

  • Por Mirko Messner | 06 Mar 14
  • The crisis in Ukraine has escalated to such a degree that, at worst, war between Ukraine and Russia, and subsequently a disastrous military confrontation between Russia and NATO, could be the outcome.
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  • Press Release of the German Party DIE LINKE

  • A New War in Europe That Must Be Prevented

  • Por Gregor Gysi | 03 Mar 14
  • The leaders of the German party DIE LINKE, Katja Kipping and Bernd Riexinger, and the Chairman of the DIE LINKE Parliamentary Group Gregor Gysi have made the following statement on the situation in Ukraine:
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  • Hamburgo: el trasfondo de una lucha profunda

  • Por Florian Wilde | 26 Feb 14
  • A principios de 2013 aproximadamente 300 personas refugiadas del África occidental llegaron a Hamburgo desde Libia. En su peligroso camino a través del Mar Mediterráneo, acabaron en la Isla de Lampedusa. Por este motivo el grupo acabó denominándose y siendo conocido con el mismo nombre de la Isla.
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  • Report of a European Conference in Madrid

  • “University, Science and Research: European Resistances and Alternatives”

  • Por Sigfrido Ramírez Pérez | 20 Feb 14
  • On Friday, 31 January, the AKADEMIA-Network of transform! europe organised a two-day conference in Madrid on the question of University, Science and Research in Europe. It was hosted by the three Spanish members of our network: the Foundation for a Europe of Citizens (FEC), the Foundation for Marxist Studies (FIM), and the Catalan Foundation L’Alternativa. The conference took place on 31 January and 1 February 2014 at Residencia de Estudiantes/Spanish Centre of Scientific Research (CSIC).
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  • transform! AKADEMIA Workshop Report

  • The Red Thread of Alternative Historiography

  • Por Sigfrido Ramírez Pérez | 20 Feb 14
  • On Friday, 14 February 2014, the AKADEMIA Network of transform! europe organised a workshop about the history of Europe. This workshop was a follow-up to the founding meeting organised in April 2013, which brought together historians working with various member organisations of our network and was supported by MEP Marie-Christine Vergiat from the GUE/NGL Group (Front de Gauche, France).
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  • How Powerful is the Russian Bear?

  • Por Ilona Švihlíková | 17 Feb 14
  • A lot of discussion has been going on regarding the Russian foreign policy and its military potential. The aim of this article is not to analyze the state and potential of the Russian military technique, but to look into the economic strengths and weaknesses of this huge country.
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  • Czech Labour Dilemmas in 2014

  • Por Vladimir Sedlacek | 17 Feb 14
  • Currently, there are two immediate positive steps taken by the new Czech government: they instantly removed the hospital fees of CZK 100 (about 4 Euros) per person daily, and they continued refusing that Czech Post is privatized, as right-wing former governments have promoted in their agendas.
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  • Lutz Holzinger (1944 – 2014)

  • 12 Feb 14
  • Two days before his 70th birthday Lutz Holzinger died in the night to 12 February. During the last three years Lutz has been co-editor of the English issue of the transform! journal.
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