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The Law and Justice Party and Poland’s Turn to the Right
- 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.
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Talk at the 5th EL Congress
The Left: Dialogue and Identity
- 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.
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The European Union: The Threat of Disintegration
Call for support: EuroMemorandum 2017
- 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.
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Documento político acerca de las relaciones UE-Rusia
La UE y Rusia: ¿Existe una salida?
- 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.
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Elecciones presidenciales en Austria
Se ha ganado una batalla - no la guerra
- La extrema derecha sufrió un revés, sería un error creer que se ha roto la dinámica la generó.
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Workshop Report
New Economic Governance of the EU at the European Parliament
- 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?’.
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Informe del taller de Helsinki
Análisis de la socialdemocracia europea: La postura de la izquierda
- 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.
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El referendum en Italia
Porque la historia la hacen los pueblos
- 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.
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Petición de ponencias: Conferencia ITH 2017
‘Los mundos del trabajo están patas arriba – revoluciones y las relaciones laborales desde una perspectiva histórica global
- 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.
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Conference Report
‘Authoritarianism and Nationalism in Europe’
- 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’.
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La izquierda francesa a la víspera de las elecciones presidenciales
- 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.
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Informe electoral
El Blues de los campesinos verdes de Lituania
- 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.
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Abortion Strike
For Formal Freedoms and Real. The ‘Black Protest’ in Poland
- 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.
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Seen from a leftist perspective
A socioecological view of Trump’s election
- 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.
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Conference Report
‘Plan B’ Controversies in Copenhagen
- For the third time the European left discussed alternatives to the Europe of austerity.
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COP22
Civil Society Declaration of Marrakech
- 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.
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Italy
Individual membership in the EL
- 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.
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Poland, the Land of Evictions
- 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.
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Report
1st European Civic Academy
- 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.
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European intellectuals facing the Italian referendum
Global Call for Democracy
- 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.
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