It has been over a year since the conservative Law and Justice party (PiS) took over complete governmental control in Poland. The presidential election won by Andrzej Duda in May 2015 and the victory of PiS five months later, gave party’s leader Jarosław Kaczyński almost total control of the state.
transform! is the think tank of the Party of the European Left (EL). Both EL and transform! are, in historical terms, relatively young organisations that were created to achieve something never before attempted: together and in our respective fields, using our individual methodologies, we aim to help create unity among the left in Europe as well as develop a common political culture of the left.
This EuroMemorandum draws on discussions and papers presented at the 22nd Workshop on Alternative Economic Policy in Europe, organised by the EuroMemo Group in cooperation with the Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra, from 15-17 September 2016 in Coimbra, Portugal.
Las relaciones actuales entre la UE y Rusia atraviesan una crisis a largo plazo que genera varios problemas de seguridad, tanto a nivel regional como global.
On 13 and 14 October, transform!’s working group on New Economic Governance organized a tight workshop at the European Parliament under the title ‘Is it possible to reform the Economic Governance of the EU?’.
El taller se dedicó al estado de la socialdemocracia europea y a su interrelación con la crisis actual y el desmantelamiento de la integración europea. En el marco del evento analizamos el declive de la socialdemocracia a través del prisma de las políticas post-democráticas, así como desde la perspectiva de la economía política.
El aire está limpio y revitalizante, pero el viaje no termina aquí, estamos entrando ahora en un periodo que será más delicado y, en algunos aspectos, más difícil.
Después de una larga cuarentena, la revolución vuelve a ser un tema de debate historiográfico. El próximo aniversario de 1917 - posiblemente uno de los acontecimientos, si no el más trascendental del siglo XX - ha alimentado aún más este interés renovado.
The new left-wing think tank in Poland, Naprzód (Forward), organised its first public event on 5 November, at the headquarters of the Polish Teachers’ Union in Warsaw. The topic of the day-long conference was ‘Authoritarianism and Nationalism in Europe’.
Los casi cinco años de la presidencia de Hollande han dejado a la izquierda en unasituación de desorganización e, incluso, han intoxicado hasta la misma idea de la izquierda.
En el contexto del actual aumento del neo-nacionalismo y la creciente xenofobia en la UE y al otro lado del Atlántico, se podría decir que las elecciones en Lituania, que finalizaron el 23 de octubre, se realizaron con una tranquilidad bucólica. Pero es un preludio de otra fase de una crisis post-democrática que afecta a las democracias nacionales sin un precariado movilizado en al región.
Given that Poland has one of the lowest natality rates in EU, and its population does not comprise from nuns, priests and friars but regular people, one could expect abortion rate to reach levels similar to other European countries, i.e. approximately 150,000 per year. And yet, officially speaking, the number of abortions performed in the country barely exceeds 1,000.
The Trump vote has, without a doubt, had far-reaching effects on a number of levels, from global down to regional. The Trumps of this world want to (really) turn back the clock in all areas of society: from women’s rights to global and national upwards redistribution of wealth, armament and the trivialisation of an atomic weapons attack through to doing away with environmental and climatic protection.
We, Moroccan, Maghreb, African and International social movements, assembled in Marrakech during COP22, reaffirm our determination to build and defend climate justice, and to act now in order to ensure global warmingremains under the target of 1.5°C – in line with commitments made by heads of state in Paris.
I am an individual member of the Party of the European Left, of which I had already been a member as a Member of the European Parliament, and a PRC (Communist Refoundation Party) activist. It was the PRC, one of the founders of the European Left, that pushed this form of membership provided for by the Charter and, at the beginning of the 21st century, supported the creation of an association of individual members.
Poland is facing a housing and eviction crisis due to the disparity between low incomes and high housing costs. Recent developments in this area are both cause for celebration and concern.
transform’s migration working group participated in the first European Civic Academy: Here we present the workshops, main outcomes of the meeting and a few reflections about left strategy in Europe.
On 4 December the constitutional referendum in Italy will be held. We regard this as a decisive moment not only in the history of the Italian republic but also for Europe. The changes submitted to the referendum aim at abolishing many of the democratic achievements laid down in Italy’s post-war constitution in order to transform the state into a ‘market-compatible’ post-democracy.