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Copenhagen Summit: People Must Adopt These Issues As Their Own
- Emergency climate control and social justice: people must adopt these issues as vital ones. Yet, a few days before the opening of the Copenhagen Summit, the chances of arriving at an agreement on these questions are minimal. There are four major areas of disagreement: The first point of...
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Poulantzas Today: Conference in Honour of Nicos Poulantzas
- A very interesting, successful and useful NPI - transform!europe Conference, Athens, 18 and 19 December 2009. When, some time ago, we discussed the idea of organizing the NPI - transform! Conference, in Athens, to commemorate Nicos Poulantzas thirty years after his death (see newsletter 1), we...
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Axes for European Social Forum defined in Diyarbakir and Paris
- 13 axes of discussion were defined for the European Social Forum - 2010 that will be held in Istanbul (1 to 4 of July), after the meeting of a working group last saturday (November, 21), in Paris, and a previous discussion in the European Preparatory Assembly (EPA) in Diyarbakir (September, 25 and...
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“Our university ... our lives!”. Austria’s students’ protests
- For nearly three weeks now students in Austria have been occupying their universities and protesting. Solidarity is strong and protests are spreading and connecting – into and with other countries’ universities and other spheres of society.
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Mesopotamia Social Forum (MSF) in Diyarbakir
- Thousands of activists from more than 50 countries participated in the Mesopotamia Social Forum, in Diyarbakir, (southeast Turkey). The struggles against war and neo-liberal policies, the fight for the rights of women, the environmental problems and the youth movement wew the important topics in...
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Report: 4th Summer University 2009, Valencia, Spain
- After four days of intensive discussions, accompanied by a cultural programme in Valencia, the 4th EL Summer University came to an end. A variety of speakers discussed with 150 participants from 17 countries about topics as the current crisis, new ways of development, the Euro-Mediterranean...
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European Social Forum on its way to Istanbul
- The EPA was held in Vienna from 19 to 21 June. More than 70 organizations from Turkey are involved in the organization of the next European Social Forum (ESF), to be held in Istanbul, in June 2010. This open and dynamic process was presented and discussed in the last European Preparatory Assembly...
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Honduran Military Assassinates Leftist Presidential Candidate
- Congressman Cesar Ham was a Zelaya ally and organizer of the opinion poll on a new constitution. Cesar Ham, presidential candidate and the head of Honduras' only registered leftist political party, the Democratic Unification of Honduras, is dead. He was killed by a squad of soldiers who arrived...
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Regarding "The Return Directive"
- Letter from Evo Morales regarding proposed new European Union Immigration policies: Until the end of the Second World War, Europe was a continent of emigrants. Tens of millions of Europeans came to the Americas to colonize, escape hunger, financial crisis, wars, European totalitarianisms and the...
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Lothar Bisky Elected President of GUE/NGL Group
- The European United Left/Nordic Green Left (*) group in the European Parliament today unanimously elected German MEP Lothar Bisky (DIE LINKE) as president of the group. After thanking all group members for their confidence and paying tribute to the work of Francis Wurtz, who has led the group for...
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Capitalism ’09
- Capitalism ’09 is part of a series of international events that focus on the analysis of contemporary capitalism. The event took place at the Old Student House in Helsinki, Finland, on April 23. Speakers were Stephen Gill (York University), whose research interests include new forms of political...
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European elections in Portugal: Anti-capitalist left takes 21% of the votes
- Bloco de Esquerda and the coalition leaded by the Communist Party reinforced their positions in the elections for the European Parliament. Following the tendencies across Europe, the Socialist Party in the government had an important defeat. The impact of the economic crisis in the Portuguese...
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Saving Jobs. Proposals against deflation by trade unions
- Presentation at Nordic Coference The global financial crisis – and the answers from the left-wing Copenhagen, January 26 & 27, 2009
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Finnish experiences on economic stagnation in the 90s
- Presentation at Nordic Conference The global financial crisis – and the answers from the left-wing Christiansborg, The Parliament, Copenhagen, Mon 26 + Tue 27 January 2009
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On the European Social Model
- Since the beginning of the 1990s the concept of the “European Social Model” has characterised the position and perspective of official EU policy. What is the meaning of this concept? The European Commission defines the European Social Model (ESM) as “characterised by democracy and rights of the...
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Financial Crisis and the Remaking of the Society of Labour in Spain
- Despite unified visions shared by the European left, deeply unequal realities subsist in the continent. Understanding the specificity of the Spanish situation within the current crisis requires considering at least two key issues: first, the decline of the society of labour in the 80's amidst a...
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Fighting Plant Closures
- Results of a study from Germany The crisis on the international financial markets has had a powerful impact on the real economy. The explosive nature of the situation is produced by two crises coming together and to an extent reinforcing each other: asset losses, indebtedness and the credit...
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From Neoliberalism to Global Social Democracy
- Speech at the First Plenary Session of the Left Forum, Pace University, New York, April 17, 2009 Good evening. I would like to thank the organizers of the Left Forum for inviting me to join the distinguished members of this panel. I have just arrived from Asia, where the global economic...
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Integral socialism and today's left
- Once upon a time, in a far away country, Austria, a long time ago, socialists called themselves "socialists", because they wanted to bring about a new society which was called "socialism". In Austria these socialists belong nowadays to a very rare species, however they have developed in their...
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