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Walter Baier

Walter Baier, an economist in Vienna, was National Chairman of the Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ) from 1994 to 2006. He was an editor of the Austrian weekly Volksstimme and from 2007 until 2020 has been Political Coordinator of the network transform! europe.

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Blog

Blog 2022
The Hatshepsut Phenomenon and the Eighth of May

Blog 2021
Speaking of Basic Income: Four Notions of Labour in Marx

Blog 2020
Käthe Leichter (1895 – 1942)

Blog 2020
Why Universal Basic Income?

Blog 2020
The Fine Old and the Poor New

Blog 2019
No Mean Task

Blog 2019
In the Great Transformation

Blog 2019
Rosa Luxemburg: Utopian or Explorer?

Blog 2017
Přivlastněme si Evropu jako věc veřejnou

Blog 2016
The Left: Dialogue and Identity

Blog 2016
The Dilemma between Post-Democracy and Pre-Fascism

Blog 2016
Hello, This is Capitalism

Blog 2016
The Resistible Rise of the Far Right in Europe

Blog 2015
transform! europe Defines Strategies and Work Programme

Blog 2015
Europe under scrutiny

Blog 2015
We need a Plan B: for another Europe, for all of Europe!

Blog 2015
transform! goes Spanish

Blog 2015
The Far Right in Europe

Blog 2013
Alter Summit-Network Held a Strategy Conference

Blog 2013
Austria Voted Paradoxically

Blog 2013
Against a War in the War

Blog 2013
A New Sort of Alliance for Another Europe

Blog 2013
transform! europe Conclave

Blog 2013
Towards the Alter Summit

Blog 2012
What Is That, a Left, European “Think-Tank”?

Blog 2012
A Spectre is Haunting Europe

Blog 2012
Challenges of a Historic Moment

Blog 2011
Mrs. Merkel’s Shame - The Banker and the Nazis

Blog 2011
“Let’s Unite against the Austerity Programmes!”

Blog 2010
On the Move to the Next World Social Forum

Blog 2009
On the European Social Model

Blog 2009
Integral socialism and today's left

Publication

Publications 2022
The European Left in the 20s. Is there a strategy?

Publications 2021
Europe as a Common. Exploring Transversal Social Ethics

Publications 2019
In the Aftermath of the European Elections: The European Left Facing New Challenges

Publications 2019
The New Right and the Old Left in South-East Europe

Publications 2018
The Militarisation of the European Union

Publications 2018
Re-appropriating Europe as a Common

Publications 2017
Thinking Europe as a Commons

Austro-Marxism

The Relevance of Otto Bauer and Austro-Marxism Today

Austro-Marxism beyond Left Wing Melancholy

Focus

Radikální pravice
Fifty Shades of Brown. Remarks on the Fight against the neo-fascist Right

Radikální pravice
The Reactionary Rebellion

Radikální pravice
The Dilemma between Post-Democracy and Pre-Fascism

Radikální pravice
Reactionary Rebellion

Radikální pravice
The Far Right in Europe

Radikální pravice
Nebezpečí zprava

Radikální pravice
Right-Wing Populism in Europe

Strategické perspektivy Evropské levice
Strategic Considerations in Insecure Times – Initiating the Discussion

Strategické perspektivy Evropské levice
The Future of European Integration

Řecko rozhoduje (2015)
We need a Plan B: for another Europe, for all of Europe!

EU volby z levicové perspektivy (2014)
Political Polarisation on the Eve of the 2014 European Elections

Diskuse – Má Euro budoucnoust?
Europe Between Disintegration and Revolt

Labour

Mayday 1890 and 2020

Elections

Considerations on the European Elections

Yearbook

transform! yearbook 2019
Preface

transform! yearbook 2019
Luxemburg, Lenin, Bauer – The Left and the National

transform! yearbook 2018
Between Two Crises? – The 2017 Austrian Elections from a European Perspective

transform! yearbook 2018
Samir Amin – interviewed by Walter Baier

transform! yearbook 2018
Preface

transform! yearbook 2017
transform! europe 2016 at a Glance

transform! yearbook 2017
Twofold Disenchantment

transform! yearbook 2017
Preface

transform! yearbook 2016
When Winter Came in July: The Left Has to Rethink Europe

transform! yearbook 2016
Preface

transform! yearbook 2015
Preface

Journal 13/2013
Politická polarizace v předvečer evropských voleb 2014

Journal 13/2013
Několik strategických úvah jak změnit Evropu

Journal 13/2013
Editorial

Journal 12/2013
Europe Between Disintegration and Revolt

Journal 01/2007
Left Actors and the European Social Model

Journal 01/2007
Editorial

Výtisk 2012
Vers un sommet alternatif européen et citoyen

Výtisk 2012
Working Towards the Social and -Democratic Refoundation of Europe

Výtisk 2012
Nebezpečí zprava

Journal 09/2011
Right-Wing Populism in Europe

Journal 08/2011
Bleak Progress

Journal 08/2011
Introduction

Journal 07/2010
"Transformation": Antonio Gramsci and Karl Polanyi

Journal 06/2010
Only the Beginning is Always "New"

Journal 06/2010
Editorial

Journal 05/2009
Editorial

Journal 03/2008
Seminar on Participatory Democracy and Participatory Budgets in Local Governments

Journal 03/2008
The Case of Austria: A European Test Case?

Journal 03/2008
Editorial

Journal 02/2008
Passive Revolution and the Reform of the Revolution

Journal 02/2008
Editorial

Journal 04/2009
Editorial

Rightist Movements

The Neo-fascisist Parties like the FPÖ don’t Believe in Democracy

Austria

The Communist Party of Austria – A European Case Study

Electoral Change in Times of Post-Democracy

The Short Respite Is Over

Winning a Battle, Not the War

European Union

The Variable Geometry of the Left

The Reactionary Rebellion

The ‘National Question’ and European Integration

Christian-Marxist Dialogue

Dialogue of Critical Minorities

Israel

There Still Remains Hope for the Middle East

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