Maria Dexborg, leader of the Left Party in Malmö, on the current feminist and human rights debate in Sweden, which has taken a downturn since the new right-wing government came to power.
Karin Schönpflug on why it is necessary to fundamentally modify the current financial model, and what feminist economics and feminist utopia have in common in their approaches to dismantling existing power relations in our economic system.
Violence against women exists in all social classes, nations, family and intimate relationships. Lithuanian social scientist and activist Reda Jureliavičiūtė explains why it often remains invisible and how we as a society can recognise the scope of the problem and find effective solutions.
Jose Soeiro analyses why it is important to put care at the centre of the political debate to fight inequalities, and why making care a universal social right and collective responsibility should be the aim of a demanding democracy.
On 1 March, Annalena Baerbock, the German Foreign Minister, presented her guidelines for a feminist foreign policy. These 86-page guidelines focus on three core demands, in addition to a number of inspiring references to feminist policy approaches: Rights, resources and the representation of women in foreign policy decision-making and negotiations.
Gabi Zimmer on why a sustainable peace depends on responsibly carrying out a society-wide conversation and promoting broad alliances with common initiatives and action on the part of anti-militarist and anti-fascist peace movements, climate activists, and trade unions.
Am 15. März ist Antje Vollmer gegangen. Von ihrer tödlichen Krankheit wusste sie lange. Sie hat sich ihr gestellt wie vorher allem anderen – mit ganzer Kraft, mit völliger Klarheit, mit größter Würde. Sie sah ihre Lebensarbeit getan.
Poland, 14 March 2023. Justyna Wydrzyńska, a women's rights defender, has been sentenced to eight months' community service for helping a woman in need to obtain an abortion. Read the reactions of Left MEPs María Eugenia Rodríguez Palop (Podemos, Spain) and Malin Björk (Swedish Left Party) to this dangerous precedent in the EU and beyond.
The International Conference on “The European Union, Turkey, the Middle East and the Kurds” took place in the European Parliament on 8-9 March. Read the shortened version of the opening statement by co-organiser Dersim Dağdeviren as well as the final declaration here.
On behalf of the transform! europe network, Marga Ferré, Co-President of transform! europe, sends warm greetings and solidarity to all women and to all those who are working for a gender-equitable world and a just and discrimination-free society.
Austria’s right-wing and authoritarian parties are trying to weaponise border control and immigration and declare certain groups that they themselves have marginalised a threat to national security, all while blocking and sabotaging pan-European efforts to relocate refugees across the continent.
Las duras críticas de las ONG y los grupos de izquierda a la política europea de migración y asilo están justificadas: desde hace muchos años, esta política representa una práctica de cooperación con terceros Estados no democráticos.
Con la guerra aún abierta en Europa del Este, Holger Politt analiza la postura pacifista de Rosa Luxemburgo y sus escritos sobre la anexión, el separatismo y la autonomía de las minorías nacionales.
Heidi Meinzolt, de la Liga Internacional de Mujeres por la Paz y Libertad (WILPF), critica el rearme masivo a escala nacional, europea y mundial y arroja luz sobre la espiral descendente de la guerra desde la perspectiva de la investigación “causal” feminista.
During the OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe) session, representatives of the Austrian peace movement gather at the Vienna Hofburg and project their demand for peace in Russian, Ukrainian, English and German on the façade of the building complex where the delegates meet: “Peace is our victory”.
Didem Aydurmus, político ecologista alemán (DIE LINKE), destaca la interacción entre el cambio climático como desencadenante de guerras y, al mismo tiempo, las guerras como una de las mayores cargas para el clima, y subraya la importancia de una consolidación coherente de la paz.
¿Cuáles habrían sido los beneficios potenciales para Rusia si su ataque a Ucrania en febrero de 2022 hubiera sido un éxito? Jürgen Klute plantea esta pregunta para volver a analizar las causas de la guerra y, por tanto, también las posibles vías para poner fin al conflicto de forma pacífica y a largo plazo.
Gabriele Michalitsch looks at developments in Austria to explain how neoliberalism is continuing to affect our economies and societies while creating fertile ground for authoritarianism.