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Interview
Enrique Santiago : « Il nous faut reconstruire les communs, qui n'auraient jamais dû être privatisés. »
- Enrique Santiago, secrétaire général du Parti communiste espagnol (PCE) et vice-porte-parole d'Unidas Podemos au Parlement espagnol, sur les mesures contre la crise économique.
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Commentary
Politics in the Face of a Climate Disaster
- In 2015, when the Paris Agreement was still under negotiations, British journalist Paul Mason expressed his doubts whether the agreement would be signed and wrote that such climate conferences „resemble the peace treaties that paved the way to the Second World War."[1] Although Mason was wrong about...
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Déclaration
« Avoir Unidas Podemos au gouvernement nous a donné une meilleure protection des travailleurs durant la pandémie. »
- Enrique Santiago était l'invité de la huitième séance du cycle de webinaires “Meeting the Left” organisé par transform! europe.
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Forum Européen des forces de gauche, écologistes et progressistes 2020
Black Lives Matter: Combattons ensemble le racisme et les facteurs qui le permettent
- Pour lecture : le communiqué de presse du Forum européen 2020.
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État des lieux
L'élection présidentielle en Pologne gangrenée par une propagande homophobe à droite
- Sur fond de menace pandémique persistante dans le pays, la Pologne doit se rendre aux urnes en fin de mois pour élire son nouveau président. La campagne électorale est dominée par les deux principaux partis de droite et leurs candidats respectifs, dont le président sortant Andrzej Duda, qui a fait de l'homophobie un thème central de sa campagne.
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Analyse
À la recherche de majorités : points de tension chez les conservateurs européens
- Les défis actuels placent l'Union européenne à un carrefour. Qu'elle devienne une union d'États-nations forts s'organisant en un nouveau type de zone de libre-échange, ou intervienne un jour en tant qu'acteur autonome dans les conflits mondiaux, dépendra étroitement des conservateurs, lesquels forment la force politique la plus importante de l'UE.
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Personal Report
The Strike of Turkish Workers in Kaunas: On the “transparent” Municipality, the “terrorist” Trade Union, and the Victories of Solidarity
- Jurgis Valiukevičius, co-founder of the 1st May Labor Union on the labour dispute of Turkish workers in Lithuania.
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Analysis
Economic Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic in the Czech Republic
- The Czech Republic has so far fared well in containing the pandemic. However, the economic consequences of the lockdown and the rapidly worsening situation in the world economy are yet to come. This article deals with economic measures implemented to mitigate the economic consequences of the pandemic through the eyes of political economy.
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Statement
Clémentine Autain: "Social democracy has failed. We need to invent something new."
- Clémentine Autain was the guest in the seventh edition of transform! europe's webinar series “Meeting the Left”.
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Statement
Manon Aubry: "The Recovery Package put forward by the European Commission means Austerity."
- Manon Aubry, together with Martin Schirdewan Co-President of the GUE/NGL group, was the guest in the sixth edition of transform! europe's webinar series Meeting the Left. She is former spokesperson for Oxfam, and since 2019 a Member of the European Parliament for France Insoumise.
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Analysis
Set It Off: The Current Uprising is a Chance to Reset American History
- George Floyd is seen on video pleading “I can’t breathe, please help.” He later calls for his mother. Eight minutes, 46 seconds later, Floyd was dead.
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Analysis
The German Federal Constitutional Court’s 5th of May ruling: a game changer in the Eurozone?
- On 5 May, the German Constitutional Court’s ruling questioned the legality of the European Central Bank (ECB)’s purchases of sovereign bonds, which play a key role in preventing an implosion of the Eurozone. Where is this judgement coming from and what are its political, legal and macroeconomic potential consequences?
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Announcement
"Lūžis" – New Left-Wing Magazine in Lithuania Out Now
- DEMOS Institute of Critical Thought, supported by transform! europe, has launched the first issue of its magazine Lūžis (Fracture). Lūžis is one of the rare left-wing magazines in Lithuania edited by progressive academics, political activists and trade unionists from Vilnius and Kaunas.
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Statement
Arnaldo Otegi (EH Bildu, Basque Country): "The government must now decide what it wants. We will not be satisfied with aesthetic changes."
- Otegi: "Today's minimum revolutionary programme is the redistribution of wealth, the self-determination of peoples, a feminist agenda, a joint action against climate change, decisive resistance against authoritarianism, a pro-peace attitude and the launch of a civic and anti-oligarchic political-economic project”.
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Statement
Heinz Bierbaum calls for a 'European Health Care Fund of 100 Billion Euros – financed by the ECB'
- Heinz Bierbaum, President of the Party of the European Left (EL), in the interview with transform! europe, discussing the crisis of our social and economic system and the new position paper of the EL.
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Obituary
Good Bye, Julio.
- The Collegiate Commission of Izquierda Unida (IU, United Left) remembers Julio Anguita, the former General Coordinator of IU, who passed away on 16 May.
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Statement
Katja Kipping: "If we want Europe, Europe must show solidarity. So it does matter who rules in Germany."
- The second guest in transform!’s series "Meeting the Left" was Katja Kipping, Co-Chairperson of the party Die LINKE. The conversation largely focussed on European politics.
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Statement
Catarina Martins (Left Bloc, Portugal): 'If the EU won’t be able to answer the crisis, the EU will hardly survive'
- Catarina Martins, National Coordinator of the Portuguese party Bloco de Esquerda (Left Bloc) proposes the 'creation of a Recovery Fund of 1.5 billion euros, directly funded by the ECB and makes the case for the building alliances between peripheral economies, such as the Portuguese one, for example around the demand for public debt restructuring.'
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Analysis
Reflection on the fundamental cause of the collapse of the ownership and power structure of the real pre-November Socialism in Czechoslovakia
- Read the paper of the Czech Marxist philosopher František Neužil.
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Statement
8 and 9 May 2020 mark the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War
- Read the statement of Heinz Bierbaum, President of the party of the European Left.
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