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Commentary
End the War!
- 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.
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Analysis
The ‘Conservative Left’ – An Oxymoron
- Jiří Dolejš criticises the ideological crises and splits within the left in the Czech Republic – and offers proposals to overcome them
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Nachruf auf Antje Vollmer
Hass und Krieg verlernen
- 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.
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Solidarity Statement
Defend Women Who Fight for Women
- 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.
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Report
“Jin Jiyan Azadi” - Solidarity With the Kurds in EU, Turkey and Middle East
- 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.
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International Women´s Day
8 March - A Day of International Feminist Solidarity
- 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.
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Analysis
Fortress Austria: Keeping Refugees Out, Even in Times of Crisis
- 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.
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Déclaration
La paix est notre victoire
- Pendant la session de l’OSCE, des représentants du mouvement pacifiste autrichien se rassemblent à la Hofburg de Vienne et projettent leur demande de paix en russe, ukrainien, anglais et allemand sur la façade du complexe immobilier où se réunissent les délégués : “La paix est notre victoire”.
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Solidarity Statement
Support for the Victims of the Earthquakes in Turkey and Syria
- transform! europe follows the European Left in calling for increased efforts to support the victims of the earthquakes in Turkey, Kurdistan and Syria and expresses its sincere condolences and full solidarity with all those affected by this catastrophe.
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Analyse
La dureté inflationniste : hausse des prix, militarisation et autoritarisme
- Gabriele Michalitsch montre à partir de l'exemple de l'Autriche comment les développements actuels du néolibéralisme favorisent la montée de l'autoritarisme.
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Commentaire
Une union européenne de l'énergie comme voie envisageable vers la paix entre l'Ukraine et la Russie ?
- Quel bénéfice la Russie escomptait-elle en février 2022 d'une victoire sur l'Ukraine ? Jürgen Klute aborde les causes de la guerre sous un autre angle — et pointe d'autres voies possibles de résolution pacifique et durable du conflit.
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- Youth expresses the most militant and promising part of the political left, playing a central role in social mobilisations and political uprisings. But are left-wing parties in Europe credible to Millennials and Gen Z? Why do even the radical parts...
- It is obvious that political environmentalism unfolds differently according to gender. This study aims to explore the heuristic dimension of ecofeminism and contribute to rethinking our contradictions, methods of struggle and possible cross-class...
- Cette étude scrute l'extrême droite au Parlement européen (PE) de 2019 à aujourd'hui (septembre 2022) sous divers angles : les suites des élections de 2019, l’organisation de l'extrême droite européenne au PE, et les points communs et divergences...
Upcoming Events
Conférence
« 100 nuances d'UE : économie politique entre pandémie et guerre dans les périphéries de l'UE »
- 03 avril 2023 - 04 avril 2023 |
- La conférence « 100 nuances d'UE : économie politique entre pandémie et guerre dans les périphéries de l'UE » aura lieu les 3 et 4 avril à Trieste, en Italie.
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Webinar
On the 25th Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement
- 06 avril 2023 - 06 avril 2023 | online
- Why is the Good Friday Agreement still relevant to the left in Europe today? What can we learn from this peace process and the search for compromise in changing circumstances? These and other questions will be discussed in this webinar organised by transform! europe and the Rosa-Luxemburg-Foundation.
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transform! yearbook 2022
transform! yearbook 2022 looks at how left politics has been challenged by the Covid pandemic and asks what a programme of left demands for pandemic research, prevention and treatment might look like. transform! yearbook 2022 will be released in June.
The publication is available as hardcopy at Merlin Press and as eBook on the transform! yearbook website.
transform! europe : podcasts
- transform! europe's online interview series "The Left Reflects" with Luciana Castellina, Alex Demirović, Nancy Fraser, Leo Panitch, Gayatri Spivak, and Hilary Wainwright now available as podcast – in cooperation with Austrian left-wing platform Mosaik.
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Short clip by "Arab States Civil Society Organisations and Feminist Network" on the impact of climate change on women in Middle Eastern countries,
presented at the transform! europe webinar Climate Justice and Women's Participation in the Arab Region.
