The earth is heating up faster and faster. We live, work and produce at the expense of others and at the expense of our future. What needs to change? What challenges and tasks do employees and trade unions face in order to make good work and a good life for all possible?
Lors de son cinquième congrès en 2016 à Berlin, le Parti de la gauche européenne (PGE) a décidé d'établir un forum annuel des forces progressistes pour intervenir plus efficacement dans le débat public européen.
Représentants des organisations membres de transform!, employés et invités se sont réunis pour l’assemblée annuelle des membres à notre bureau de coordination mi-septembre. Les quelque 50 participants ont débattu de politique générale, et les membres ont voté le budget ainsi que le calendrier de travail de l'organisation pour 2020.
Vous trouverez ci-après une liste non-exhaustive des publications les plus récentes sur la vie et l'œuvre de Rosa Luxemburg, – toutes parues en 2019 pour le 100e anniversaire de son assassinat.
Le 30 octobre, sur proposition du groupe d'extrême droite Vox, le conseil municipal de Madrid a approuvé le jour du 23 août comme date de célébration pour la Journée européenne de commémoration des victimes du stalinisme et du nazisme qui doit rendre hommage aux victimes des régimes communiste, nazi et autres régimes totalitaires et autoritaires.
The Summer University was the European Left's first public appointment following the elections, and, despite the fatigue of the electoral campaign, participation was good. Over 220 people registered for the three days of plenary sessions and seminars.
As always, the quality of the interventions...
When the left thinks about alternatives they usually envision struggles. Already Marx and Engels understood the history of all societies up to then as 'the history of class struggles'. Wolfgang Kessler, chief editor for more than twenty years of the Publik-Forum – a left-oriented Catholic journal – shows that these struggles also require an art.
On Sunday, November 10, general elections took place in Spain. 48 hours later, the leaders of the PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party – social democrats) and Unidas Podemos (UP), Pedro Sánchez and Pablo Iglesias, announced a left-wing coalition government in Spain. Read Marga Ferré's comment and the preliminary agreement between PSOE and UP.
« Incohérente, contradictoire et formulée très vaguement » selon Ullrich, « l'utilisation de la Définition opérationnelle de l'antisémitisme ne peut pas être recommandée. »
On Saturday, 19 October, transform! europe’s member organisation Fundació l’Alternativa celebrated the XII edition of the Race and Walk Lluís Companys – an event that bundles historical memory, giving voice to republican values, sports and culture. An active and festive way of claiming peace culture and solidarity between peoples and nations.
It is with joy that we followed live images of the release of Brazil’s former President Lula da Silva from incarceration.
Lula’s imprisonment since April 2018 was the result of an unfair political process, part of an institutional coup that led to President Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment, to prevent...
This is a first in the balance of power between the Commission – the EU executive – and the European Parliament. Even before the scrutiny of the candidates for the future College of Commissioners, headed by Ursula von der Leyen, began on 30 September, two candidates were blocked by a majority of...
Le conseil d'administration de transform! europe a rédigé la lettre ouverte suivante concernant la résolution « Importance de la mémoire européenne pour l'avenir de l'Europe » adoptée par la majorité du Parlement européen, – rejetée par le groupe GUE/NGL.
Significant political changes in Hungary: In the larger cities, the fragmented opposition parties and civil organizations were able to increase their support due to the collaboration of different opposition factions. As a result of the disproportionate electoral system, in some places opposition was able to obtain a significant majority.
The 2019 Polish parliamentary elections were held on 13 October 2019. All 460 members of the Sejm and 100 senators of the Senate were elected. The ruling PiS win the elections, far-right enters the parliament, whilst the left returns to parliament.