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Statement
For the Immediate Release of Julian Assange and the Prevention of His Extradition
- With regard to the extradition hearing of Julian Assange, scheduled to begin on February 24, 2020 at Woolwich Crown Court in London, the Party of the European Left declares:
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Conference Report
„European Industrial policy – a Tool for a Green New Deal“
- What kind of economic and industrial policy do we need at a European level to achieve climate neutrality until 2050? How does a progressive Green New Deal must look like?
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Essay
Insights To The Battlefield Of Slovak Electoral Struggles
- The next Slovak parliamentary election will be held on 29 February 2020. All 150 members of the National Council will be elected and the leader of the resultant government will become the Prime Minister. To Eduard Šebo, the electoral struggles in Slovakia seem to be like military word battles, he describes it using this terminology.
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Report
Left Political School of Activism - theory and practice walking side by side
- Fall 2019 was quite an intense and fruitful period for the young and new activists specially among students. More students were coming back to the capital to the University of Tirana from their hometowns, the academic year is about to start and so is the ongoing struggle.
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Conference report
Economic Democracy and Self-Governance in Enterprises
- The conference “Economic democracy and self-governance in enterprise: history, theories, perspectives” can be considered as one of the main arrival points of the project “Democracy as self-government” in 2019, proposed to Transform!Europe by Sinistra XXI, Italian leftist think tank.
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Brexit Britain
- The Labour Party was decisively defeated in the UK general election of December 2019. The most immediate result is that the UK has now left the European Union. Brexit however does not just mean leaving the European Union but it represents the victory of a global far-right phenomenon; Trump in the...
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Unlimited Liberal Feminism in Lithuania.
- When thinking about the situation of feminism in Lithuania, the film Kramer vs. Kramer springs to mind. Or, perhaps it would be better to say that what arises is discussion within feminist circles about this film, decades after it was first seen on the screen.
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Anniversary
The Hungarian Soviet Republic from a century-long perspective
- An opening speech at the international conference for the centenary of the Hungarian Soviet Republic.
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The Irish General Election – The Green Shoots of a new Ireland?
- The Irish general election result has totally transformed the Irish political landscape but in so doing is likely to also change the Anglo-Irish relationship and the relationship between the two parts of Ireland. In order to understand the full impact of Sinn Féin gaining its largest vote in the...
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Industrial workers want the European Green Deal to deliver on Just Transition.
- Luc Trinagle, General Secretary of industriAll (the Trade Union Federation of Trade Unions in the manufacturing, mining and energy sectors) reminds us: "decarbonisation is not happening in a social vacuum. Years of austerities have increased precariousness and inequalities while weakening public services and threatening workers' rights".
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Time to end the market farce of energy transition: we need a pro-public democratically controlled energy system.
- Samantha Mason from the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS, UK) focuses in her contribution on the importance of the transformation of the energy sector in our struggle to stop net CO2 emissions. Hereby she stresses one of the most urgent, and often neglected, points that we cannot rely on decentralised transformatory solutions only.
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Annual Red Books Day
- The International Peoples' Assembly proposes the organization of an international annual Red Books Day on February 21st, the day of the original publishing of the Communist Manifesto.
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Speech at EL Congress
Give the struggles of our times
- When I joined the Left Alliance 20 years ago 13% of the Finnish people said that they could vote for the Left and almost all of them actually did it since in the elections we had 11 or even 12% of votes. Most of those voters were very old so it looked inevitable that the party would shrink and...
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Vladimir Putin’s January Constitutional Coup
- The constitutional reform that Vladimir Putin presented on 15th January 2020 was a surprise, especially for those who are not following Russia’s domestic political developments. The possibility of a significant transfer of powers from the president to the Duma (parliament) has been discussed repeatedly over the course of the past year.
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Thuringia
A Breach in Germany’s Political Levee
- The election of Thomas Kemmerich (FDP) as the new Minister President of Thuringia on 5 February 2020 represents a political breach of historic dimensions. For the first time, a Minister President will come to power with the votes of the nationalist Alternative für Deutschland (AfD).
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European Left Congress
- The Party of the European Left (PEL) held its sixth congress in the Spanish town of Benalmádena, near Málaga. The event took place between 13 and 15 December 2019 and brought together over 400 delegates representing 25 political parties from more than twenty European countries. Izquierda Unida and the Spanish Communist Party hosted the conference.
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The Strikes in France
- Since the 5th of December 2019, France is witnessing its biggest strike since either 1995 or as some mention May 68, though the number of participants is of course way less important than in that mythical year.
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Don't Wait for Cooler Times!
- Global Warming as challenge for Science, Politics and Alternatives
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Is there an new chance for the Austrian Left?
The Fine Old and the Poor New
- (Not only) The Left justly criticizes that by signing the government agreement the Greens have facilitated a continuation of the conservative and right-wing extremist strategy regarding refugee and migration policies. This criticism will become louder and possibly also lead to the break-up of the coalition.
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Speech at EL Congress
Unity of the Party, unity of the struggles
- Dear comrades, We did succeed in having a congress of unity, with a shared political document and - as it seems - a common proposal upon the leadership. This is a very positive result. Now we need to decide how we could use such a document. First of all, the European Left Party must work towards...
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