Blockupy calls for a strong international participation in the actions on 18 March, the day when the European Central Bank (ECB) wants to open its new headquarters in Frankfurt. There will not only be a disobedient mass action on 18 March itself, but also a diversity of demonstrations, blockades and other forms of direct actions around it.
La victoire éventuelle de SYRIZA dans les prochaines élections grecques est une question qui devrait intéresser au plus haut point les mouvements sociaux, les syndicats et les forces politiques dans tous les pays européens, car elle peut être la première étape d'un changement social et politique fondamental sur notre continent.
The International Student Initiative for Pluralism in Economics (ISIPE), a network against the neoliberal consesus in economics schools, held its first General Assembly from 18 to 21 September in Tübingen.
Que signifie la notion de "communs" ? Peut-il constituer une base pour unifier des luttes aussi diverses - en apparence - que celles pour l'eau gratuite, pour la sauvegarde des services publics, contre les droits de scolarité, pour les initiatives auto-gestionnaires des travailleurs, contre les projets de construction démesurés, pour le droit des migrants de rester dans leur pays de résidence ou contre la privatisation des places publiques ?
Full success for the national demonstration on 6 November. With more than 120,000 participants coming from the whole country the event which had been initiated by the three main workers organizations (Christian, socialist and liberal) makes up the largest social mobilization for the last 30 years.
The Nordic joint transform! project brings together ideas on ecosocialist paths for future welfare states. These ideas were presented first time publicly at the Historical Materialism Conference in London.
L’impasse de l’austérité est principalement visible en Grèce. Et elle est perceptible dans toute l’Europe. L’austérité, en plus d’être inefficace et sans issue dans la manière d’affronter la crise, s’avère maintenant dangereuse. Parce qu’elle change la nature de la crise, une fois encore.
Une enquête de la presse internationale vient de dévoiler les accords secrets passés entre le Luxembourg et 340 multinationales, alors que Jean-Claude Juncker était Premier ministre. Ces “rulings” contiennent une mécanique sophistiquée d'optimisation fiscale permettant aux grosses firmes de bénéficier de taux d'imposition jusqu'à vingt fois inférieurs à la norme.
In evaluation of transform!'s General Assembly, which has agreed on core projects for 2015, the transform! managing board drafted the following work plan.
Economic policies followed until now to tackle the economic and social crisis have failed. They brought about low growth and deflation, increased precarious work and unemployment, particularly youth unemployment, rising poverty and inequalities. Divergences within and between countries increased.
La 51e Conférence de l'ITH (24-26 septembre 2015) traitera de la question « travail et non-travail » dans une perspective interdisciplinaire, en particulier, du point de vue de la construction politique du travail et du non-travail.
The transformation of the Czech Republic, specifically of Czechoslovakia from 1990 to 1992, is a topic that relates not only to economics, but also has legal, social and political aspects. It is subject to many interpretations and also poses a fundamental question: whether the process is complete.
This is the first report of a new project dedicated to a Left Industrial Policy / Productive Transformation for Europe. It aims at presenting the preliminary results of the work undertaken by a Transform! interdisciplinary Working Group composed of economists, trade unionists and historians – as well as its cooperation with relevant actors of the political Left towards a progressive EU-wide industrial and investment policy contributing to the social, ecological and democratic transformation of Europe.
A popular argument has it that independence for Scotland is an intrinsically left-wing and noble cause. Bill Blackwater, a British left-wing writer, counters this view.
An analysis by Andreas Karitzis, member of the Political Secretariat of SYRIZA and member of the Nicos Poulantzas Institute, from April 2013 and still relevant.
The article deals with geopolitical aspects of new trade blocks that are either being negotiated or already in existence. The crisis of the multilateral trade system and the inability to accomplish the Doha round led in first place to an immense spread of free trade area agreements. However, as a reaction to a continuing bad economic situation in the West, together with increasing coordination of the BRICS countries, new trade blocks are being built.
Cela fait une semaine que les assassins de l'ISIS ont commencé leur attaque. La zone environnante a été évacuée complètement. 160 000 personnes ont abandonné la région de Rozava. Bande morte. Chaque pouce de la frontière entre l'ouest de la Turquie et la Syrie a vu quelqu'un mourir de faim. C'est un no man's land. Un seul point est laissé en vie. C'est un rayon de lumière et de lutte entouré des ténèbres les plus épaisses. C'est un rayon de lumière. Les barricades de Kobani.
Cuba is an impoverished island that remains largely cut off from the world and lies about 4,500 miles from the West African nations where Ebola is spreading at an alarming rate. Yet, having pledged to deploy hundreds of medical professionals to the front lines of the pandemic, Cuba stands to play the most robust role among the nations seeking to contain the virus.