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Commentary
What Should We Make of the Decisions of the EU Council on the ‘Development Plan’ and the Next Multiannual Financial Framework?
- Between 17-21 July the heads of EU Member States (MS) met together in Brussels and spent as much time haggling over the ‘development plan’, which is designed to stabilise economies weakened by the coronavirus, as over the next Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF). What should we make of their decisions?
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Personal report
Diary of a Pandemic Shop Steward
- After the death of my colleague and friend, I became the main trade union representative at my workplace, a small charity helping disabled people in Lambeth (London). As many other union activists across Europe, I am now involved in the struggle of workers to a safe workplace…
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Analysis
More Money – Less Solidarity: Competition of the Subsidies
- Covid-19 has led to a dramatic economic crisis. The EU has modified the strict State aid rules to such a degree that States can now help their national economies virtually at their own discretion. What at first sounds sensible comes with a catch, however, since it results in the strong becoming even stronger and leaving poorer economies behind.
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Comment
Pourquoi un revenu de base universel ?
- Permettez que je commence par situer le problème : actuellement, il y a plus de 14 millions de personnes au chômage à travers l'UE, et des millions de personnes ont vu leur contrat suspendu ou sont dans des emplois précaires. Et pourtant, la crise économique mondiale, dont personne ne sait prédire...
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New Release
Coronavirus Special Issue | Transform (UK) Journal #8 Out Now
- transform! europe's member organization Transform (UK) proudly presents the latest issue of its journal.
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Report
European/Prague Spring 2020
- UNITED for Intercultural Action, along with transform! europe, Prague Spring 2, Szab, Youth and Environment Europe, International Young Naturefriends, and SPaS, held a webinar to discuss the future of civic organizing in the context of the pandemic, and how leaders across Europe are responding to the crisis with a worryingly authoritarian way.
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Analysis
Bulgarian protests: battles over anti-corruption?
- The ‘Anti-corruption’ fight in Bulgaria that erupted again on 9 July is caught in a clash between two conflicting concepts of what is at stake.
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Publication
Genre, générations et communisme en Europe centrale et orientale et au-delà
- C'est avec fierté que nous vous présentons l'ouvrage Gender, Generations, and Communism in Central and Eastern Europe and Beyond, dont la publication aux éditions Routledge (dans la série « Recherches Routledge sur le genre et l'histoire ») a été soutenue par transform! europe.
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On Robots and Sheep
- A short introduction to historical materialism and its significance for the understanding of contemporary capitalism.
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Statement
Acerbo: 'A general strike launched by European's trade unions could force the ECB to revise its policy and change the way it works.'
- Maurizio Acerbo, National Secretary of the Rifondazione Comunista (Communist Refoundation Party, Italy), was the guest in transform! europe's webinar series Meeting the Left.
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Statement of the GUE/NGL
MEPs prepare to slate summit deal and defend real recovery
- Decrying EU leaders’ hatchet job on the long-term budget and recovery plan, the GUE/NGL group will join the vast majority in the European Parliament in passing a resolution that strongly criticises the conclusions of last weekend’s summit. The lack of ambition shown in the context of the biggest...
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Release
Breaking with Transition
- The Balkan Society for Theory and Practice (BSTP) recently published a special issue of Feminist Critique: “Breaking with Transition: Decolonial and Postcolonial Perspectives in Eastern Europe”, in collaboration with Feminist Critique Journal. This issue is the result of the presentations at the 2018 BSTP workshop, supported by transform! europe.
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Commentary
The Ultimate Cathartic Function of Iconoclasm. Or When the Whites Started Noticing All those Bronze Statues.
- At the end of 2017, a train was bringing me to Rotterdam, where I would move. When in Antwerp, I assisted to a profoundly embarrassing dialogue. A guy from Varese, Italy – a tattoo artist – was pressing a woman from the U.S. – a visual artist – with the question 'where are you from, exactly?' After...
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Shortlist Unveiled for 2020 GUE/NGL Award for Whistleblowers & Journalists
- Dedicated to individuals or groups who have been intimidated and/or persecuted for uncovering the truth and exposing it to the public, this year’s award of the European United Left/Nordic Green Left group in the European Parliament is once again named in honour of the late Maltese journalist, Daphne Caruana Galizia.
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Review
Communist Intellectuals in Western Europe. A Comparative Study of France, Austria, Italy and the United Kingdom (1945-1956)
- In today’s world, it seems difficult to fathom the pull Stalinist communism exerted on many western European intellectuals. In his postdoctoral thesis written at the University of Giessen, Thomas Kroll puts forth a new and comprehensive analysis of the causes and manifestations of this attraction, a...
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Rapport
Une élévation de la température de 1,5 °C pourrait arriver encore plus tôt que prévu
- D'après les dernières prévisions climatiques publiées par l'Organisation météorologique mondiale (OMM) le 8 juillet dernier, il y a 20 % de risque qu'on assiste à des températures supérieures d'au moins 1,5 °C par rapport aux niveaux préindustriels dans le courant des cinq prochaines années (2020-2024) – et ce risque continue d'augmenter.
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A call for a new European social contract
- Call for a new progressive and democratic front in Europe. A statement of intellectuals and academics initiated by, amongst others, Costas Douzinas, President of the Nicos Poulantzas Institute, a transform! europe member organization.
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Report
The Elections and the Pandemic. The French Municipal Elections 2020
- The municipal elections are an important event of French politics. Indeed, after the presidential election, these are the elections that usually benefit from the highest turnout. 35,416 municipal councils were to be elected; however, as a result of the pandemic, they took place under very special conditions.
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Statement
Luka Mesec: 'We need a strong European left-wing alternative.'
- Luka Mesec, MP and Coordinator of the Slovenian Levica (The Left), was the guest in the ninth edition of transform! europe's webinar series ‘Meeting the Left’. He spoke of the pandemic’s exposure of many shortcomings of capitalist systems, and pointed to opportunities for left politics.
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A Health, Social and Economic Crisis Revealing Class and Gender Antagonisms in our Society
- A Statement of the Feminism Working Group of the Party of the European Left.
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