To understand the challenge the digital revolution poses to humanity, and hence to left and progressive actors, we must situate it in the wider political horizon of the current crisis of civilization.
“With their nominations for the four senior EU roles, the Council of the heads of government of the EU member states, with Angela Merkel leading the way, did the EU a disservice and casually dropped the principle of appointing only the top candidate of a parliamentary group,”, says Martin Schirdewan, interim group chairman of DIE LINKE in the EP.
Housing is a human right and not a commodity. A European Citizens’ Initiative demands better EU legislation for affordable, public and social housing in Europe.
As thousands continue to protest against Viktor Orbán’s plans to curb Hungary’s academic freedom by seizing control of the country’s leading scientific research body, the Left in the European Parliament is throwing its full solidarity behind the campaign against this latest power grab.
On Thursday 6 June a centre-left coalition, including Left Alliance and led by Social Democratic Party, was formed. A very progressive government programme was adopted, although some conflicts are just postponed.
Después de las elecciones europeas, hay que reconocer que el debate público sobre la cuestión del diseño actual de las instituciones de la UE apenas existe.
Zuzana Čaputová, la candidata del partido neoliberal no parlamentario ‘Eslovaquia progresista’, ganó la segunda vuelta de las elecciones presidenciales con el 58% de los votos. Čaputová es la primera mujer en ser presidenta y, a los 45 años, es la presidenta más joven en la historia de Eslovaquia.
Registered voters: 30,056,127
Turnout: 62.86 % (first round), 62.07 % (second round)
second round:
Volodymyr Zelensky - 73.22 %
Petro Poroshenko - 24.45 %
The recent presidential elections in Ukraine have provoked rather similar reactions in the West and in the post-Soviet countries,...
After London, Sydney, New York, Beirut, Montreal, and Toronto, the Historical Materialism Conference was held in Southern Europe for the first time. From 2 to 5 May, hundreds of people met in the Greek capital to discuss resistance and strategy in times of crisis. A report follows, with particular focus on critical communication studies.
El Desobedoc - mostra de cinema insubmisso es un festival de cine documental insumiso co-organizado por transform! europe y Bloco de Esquerda que comenzó en Oporto, en 2014.
Faced with the choice in Britain between a free-market, xenophobic Brexit and a neoliberal, exclusionary EU, it is useful to learn from the experience of a government that has succeeded in challenging neoliberal austerity from within the EU. In Portugal, just such a government is coming to the end...
Last week, a group of refugees arrived in Brussels to hold a demonstration outside the European External Action Service, European Council and the European Commission, after they cycled the 475-kilometre route from Frankfurt, aiming to raise awareness of the situation of asylum seekers currently trapped in Libya.
Encuentre aquí el primer texto de la serie de artículos que transform! europe publicará sobre Rosa Luxemburg con motivo del centenario de su asesinato.
A vote that gives the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (FRONTEX) unprecedented powers overwhelmingly recently passed in the European Parliament – giving this opaque EU body unrivalled powers and unchecked accountability.
El 23 de junio de 2016, el electorado del Reino Unido y Gibraltar votó en referéndum para decidir si el país debía seguir siendo miembro de o abandonar la Unión Europea. El referéndum fue un compromiso del Partido Conservador en las elecciones generales de mayo de 2015. El Primer Ministro y líder...
El 15 de febrero de 2019, el consultor científico y estratégico de transform! europe, fue invitado a participar en una mesa redonda organizada por la Fundación de Investigación Marxista (FIM) para conmemorar a su ex presidente y miembro del Partido Comunista de Madrid, Javier Navascués, quien falleció hace un año a la edad de 61 años.