Analysis
More Equality for More Resilience
- The year 2022 has given us a glimpse of the new world we are entering. We are witnessing the end of a long period of relative stability, prosperity and security. From now on, we will have to learn to live with uncertainty and restraint. An analysis by Christophe Degryse, Head of the Foresight Unit at the European Trade Union (ETUI).
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Report
7th Nicosia Book Fest
- Chrysostomos Pashiardis from the Research Institute "Promitheas", an observer organisation of transform! europe, reports on the successful book festival held in Nicosia, Cyprus, from 13-14 and 22-24 October 2022, which has been organised by "Promitheas" Research Institute since 2016.
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Comment
Peace in Rome
- On 5 November, a protest march organised by trade unions, left movements, Catholic groups, and other civil society actors took place in Rome. The giant demonstration for peace with more than a hundred thousand people is an event of enormous importance.
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Interview
Transforming Slovenia, One Step at a Time
- Luka Mesec on the Slovenian Left’s rise from student protests to a party of government
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DIALOP Press Release
Position Paper: Seeking for a Common Future in Solidarity
- On 8 November, the DIALOP position paper was presented in the European Parliament, documenting the common positions of Christians and leftists on a common social ethic.
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Comment
EU Debt Rules: Austerity in Disguise
- The European Commission published their proposals to reform the EU’s fiscal rules from 2024.
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Comment
"Peace is not everything but without peace everything is nothing!"
- Walter Baier comments on behalf of transform! europe on the final document of the 6th European Forum, which took place in Athens in October.
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Analyse
La gauche latino-américaine va inspirer le monde
- Les élections brésiliennes actuelles ne sont pas seulement importantes pour les citoyens de ce pays. Le Brésil a renforcé la nouvelle vague de gauche en Amérique latine et la coopération mondiale du Sud qui comprend déjà 134 pays en développement et pourrait représenter une alternative sociale à l´heure où les pays occidentaux sont confrontés à une
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Analysis
La Bulgarie à nouveau dans l'impasse après le quatrième vote en 18 mois
- Georgi Pirinski développe une analyse sur les élections législatives qui ont eu lieu en Bulgarie début octobre en examinant l’impact du résultat sur des questions primordiales telles que la lutte contre la corruption et la position de la Bulgarie sur la guerre en Ukraine, et quelles conséquences la gauche bulgare peut tirer de ces élections.
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Interview
Le nouveau gouvernement réactionnaire de la Suède et comment il a vu le jour
- Les dernières élections suédoises ont vu la montée du parti d'extrême-droite, les Démocrates Suédois (dont les préoccupations tournent presque entièrement autour de l'immigration et l'ordre public) mais aussi la chute du gouvernement de gauche, comme nous explique Erik Anderson du Parti de gauche suédois dans une interview avec Wojciech Łobodziński
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Book Review
Facing the New Far Right in Southern Europe. Analysing the Rise of the Extreme Right After the Financial Crisis
- The new publication, edited by Coppieters Foundation and Fundació nexe, analyses the development of right-wing parties in southern EU countries – specifically in Italy, Spain and France. It looks at their history since the end of the 1970s but focuses mainly on more recent developments after the financial and economic crisis of 2008–2009.
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Analysis
The Iranian Revolution, Political Islam, and Global Capitalism
- Popular anger is overcoming the coercive power of the regime. And considering the courage of the new generation, completely detached from Islamic ideology, it can be expected that the Islamic Republic will not survive for long.
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Analysis
Climate Justice in the Arab Region from the Feminist Perspective
- With COP27 taking place in Egypt in November, Fatma Khafagy gives an analytical overview of the feminist struggles in the Arab region that are closely linked to climate issues.
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Analysis
“Enough is Enough” — Working Class Struggles in the UK
- As Britain faces economic crisis at the hands of a right-wing Conservative government, it continues to be hard hit by Brexit, and is still reeling from the impact of the pandemic. With the Labour Party failing to mount any serious opposition to neo-liberalism, we are at last seeing the re-emergence of significant trade union-led strikes.
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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.
Upcoming Events
Conference
Unorthodox and Austro-Marxism in Eastern Europe and Beyond
- 04 décembre 2022 - 04 décembre 2022 | Vienna
- The aim of the conference is to present current research, to deepen knowledge of Austro-Marxist and unorthodox Marxist thought in Eastern Europe from the early 1900s to the beginning of the Second World War, and to encourage further research on the subject.
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Call for Papers - deadline 31 January 2023
International Marxist-Feminist Conference: Body, Work and Care in Contemporary Digital Capitalism
- 16 novembre 2023 - 18 novembre 2023 | Warsaw
- We would like to kindly invite you to submit your presentation proposal for the 5th International Marxist Feminist Conference which will take place in November 2023 in Warsaw and will focus on feminist theoretical, political, cultural, and artistic responses to current crises.
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Systematic Foul Play: The 2022 World Cup in Qatar
The inhumane working conditions on the World Cup construction sites in Qatar have been making headlines for years, and yet hardly anything has changed.
According to estimates, around 6,500 workers from South Asia have died since construction work began.
The video was originally published on the website of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Foundation
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.
L'horloge montre le temps qu'il reste (en années/mois/jours/etc.) avant qu'on atteigne la limite de réchauffement planétaire indiquée (2° C ou 1,5° C, au choix) au rythme excessif actuel d'émissions mondiales de CO2 (« budget CO2 », indiqué en tonnes).
Réalisé par l'Institut Mercator de recherches sur les communs planétaires et le changement climatique (MCC) à partir du rapport spécial du GIEC sur le réchauffement climatique (disponible en français).
Suggestion de lecture :
Roland Kulke: La pandémie relève d'une crise de civilisation beaucoup plus ample
- This eDossier summarises studies from all parts of Europe that aim to analyse how the discussions on the return of austerity policies are being conducted and whether a care society, a climate policy is in the discourse in the respective countries....
- L'étude présente un panorama des organisations et acteurs clés de la coopération multilatérale basée en Autriche concernant les politiques d'externalisation aux frontières de l'UE, bien au-delà des frontières autrichiennes — et impliqués de ce fait...
- « Jak jsme se stali kolonií », ouvrage paru en 2015, sapait le mythe de la « transformation réussie », dénonçant la position de la République tchèque dans l’économie mondiale comme intenable et acquise au détriment du peuple. Le présent eBook en...
Revue annuelle de transform! 2022
- Parmi les divers grands thèmes abordés cette année, la revue annuelle de transform! 2022 traite notamment de la façon dont la pandémie de Covid-19 met la gauche à l'épreuve et s'interroge sur ce que doivent être des revendications de gauche face à la pandémie en termes de recherche, de prévention et de traitements.
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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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