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Analysis
The Russian Extreme Right and its Relationship with the State
- Katja Woronina addresses how Russia's political power system controls and influences political and social movements or parties and how this fact affects the Russian extreme right.
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Opinion
Notes on the Far Right
- Fabian Figueiredo sketches a sharp overview of how the current circumstances in Europe and the Global North, which are dominated by war, energy crises, and nationalism, are affecting the development of the extreme right.
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Comment
Prevented in France – Possible in Italy
- In France, more than 13 million people voted for the presidential candidate Marine Le Pen of the far-right Rassemblement National (RN). In Italy, the post-fascist party Fratelli d'Italia (Brothers of Italy) is about to take over government in a right-wing alliance with Lega and Forza Italia. How is this possible?
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Comment
SOTEU - A Grandiose Sermon Oblivious to Realities Facing Working People
- How many more crises will it take for the EU to finally draw the right conclusions? This year’s State of the Union address should have been European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s apology to European citizens.
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Analysis
Sweden: Right-Wing Coalition Wins Election by the Narrowest of Margins
- With almost all votes counted from Sunday’s election, it looks like Sweden’s right-wing parties are set to take power with a razor-thin majority, ending eight years of social democratic government.
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Analysis
Traditionalism’s New Golden Age – the Far Right and Russia
- Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine has cast a light on the web of ties between influential individuals (and politicians) in Russia, Europe and the US. This not only involves oligarchs and manipulative energy tactics, but Russia’s special relationship with the far-right around the globe.
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Personal report
Diary of a Pandemic Shop Steward 2022
- When I last wrote a diary entry, it was the autumn of 2020. This was shortly before management planned to start bringing staff back to the office, despite my concerns about our workplace, not being Covid secure – but events intervened.
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Reportage
Flying and Cancer: Underestimated Risk for Flight Attendants
- The body of evidence linking the occupation of cabin crew to an increased risk of breast cancer is steadily growing. Now that there is a chance of it gaining recognition as an occupational disease, more and more trade unions and associations are engaging with the issue.
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Call for Support
For the New Constitution in Chile
- On 4 September, the people of Chile will decide: default to Pinochet´s constitution, or found a new Chile with a constitution that guarantees the rights to health, housing, education, and a habitable planet. Join the numerous activists who write to congratulate Chile´s Constitutional Convention on the completion of a new Political Constitution.
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Analysis
Sliding Further to the Right
- The Alternative für Deutschland looks chaotic and divided, but beneath the surface, its neo-fascist wing seems to be gaining the upper hand. An analysis by Gerd Wiegel.
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Declaration of the International Kurdish Solidarity Collective
- With support from NATO, the regime of the dictatorial Turkish president Erdoğan is not only continuing its war against the Kurdish people and their allies inside Turkey’s borders but is expanding it to Syria and Iraq, Sweden and Finland. The International Kurdish Solidarity Collective issued following Declaration regarding the latest attacks.
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Report
COP26 – Big Failure?
- transform! europe's Roland Kulke critically reports on COP26, which took place in Glasgow in October/November 2021.
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Reportage
Dutch Port Workers Want to Retire Healthy
- Given that port workers work shifts, under high pressure and in arduous working conditions, many of them are totally worn out long before they reach pensionable age – and on average they die six years earlier. Port workers need to retire earlier if they are to enjoy a healthy old age.
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Latest update: 9/8/2022
'Pure Political Harassment and Persecution'. Walden Bello Arrested
- On Monday, 8 August, the internationaly renowned scholar and political activist Walden Bello was arrested by the Philippine police and charged with cyber-libel in a move supporters are calling an act of political repression.
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Interview
Why Russia’s Political Capitalists Went to War – and How the War Could End Their Rule
- ‘Russia’s political capitalists waged war in order to survive as a class, to continue accumulating wealth through the exploitation of the state’ – says Volodymyr Ishchenko, a research associate at Freie Universität Berlin. However, this war may equally bring about a fall or a radical transformation of the whole post-Soviet order.
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New Release
Against the War. The Other Agenda — Quistioni, 4th Edition
- The 4th issue of the quarterly magazine of the Party of the European Left contains contributions on the topic of commitment to peace and disarmament as well as the fight against climate change and for a better world.
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Interview
Anti-Fascist Resistance as a Movement for Transformational Social Change
- The ¡No pasarán! – Contested Memories symposium examined politics of remembrance, revisionism and anti-fascist resistance in the Alps-Adriatic Region. transform! europe's Michael Hollogschwandtner spoke to conference organiser Mirko Messner.
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Analysis
A New Left Tide in Latin America. Making Structural Progress Finally?
- Can the recent election of Colombia's first leftist president, Gustavo Petro, be seen as an impulse for change that will finally create social structural progress in Latin America?
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Interview
Europäische Industriepolitik in Zeiten des Klimawandels
- Das 1,5-Grad-Ziel zu erreichen, wird immer schwieriger. Warum es dazu eine transformative Industriepolitik braucht und warum es irrsinnig ist, Uran und Gas als umweltgerechte Energiequellen einzustufen, erklärt Roland Kulke von transform! europe im Gespräch mit Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Betrieb & Gewerkschaft.
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Report
The Peace Summit in Madrid, a Pacifist and Internationalist Alternative to a “Criminal” NATO
- Pacifist groups organised under the State Platform for Peace - NATO, NO umbrella brought together three workshops and eleven panels for debate on 24/25 June in Madrid. The goal: promoting another global security model to oppose the Atlantic Alliance before the leaders of NATO member states meet in Madrid (29/30 June).
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