With the current issue 13 of our journal we are, after seven years of continuous publication in at least four languages, introducing a change of our production strategy. Instead of a journal published at intervals of half a year, transform! europe will from next year on present a year-book the volume of which will be corresponding to the two issues of the journal.
Globalisation is a historically constituted phenomenon, a stage in capitalism’s becoming the world. It cannot be reduced to the simple connecting of national markets. On the economic level it indicates the creation of a true world market that is de-segmented and decompartmentalised, transmitting goods, services, capital’s factors of production, people, ideas and values.
Několik posledních let je termín transformace opět na vzestupu. Přibližně před sto lety ho použil Nikolaj Bucharin pro popis přechodu k sovětskému socialismu/ komunismu (Bucharin 1990).
Květnové evropské volby 2014 nás nutí, abychom se veřejně a jasně vyjádřili, jakým způsobem bychom chtěli změnit Evropskou unii. Euro-skepticizmus a klesající podpora veřejnosti pro EU mohou mít protichůdné politické důsledky: prosté odmítnutí EU bez nabídnutí politické alternativy přináší riziko přenechání volného pole působnosti krajní pravici, která využívá vlnu nespokojenosti a nabírá vítr do plachet.
Volby do Evropského parlamentu (EP) v květnu 2014 budou poznamenány kapitalistickou krizí a jejím – regionálně poměrně odlišným – politickým dopadem. Na rozdíl od roku 2009, kdy volby prokázaly posun doprava, tentokrát mohou vyústit do polarizace mezi novým blokem pravicového křídla populistických stran a levého křídla levice.
With closer EU integration leading to more neoliberalism and authoritarianism, European radical left parties and activists, including components of the Party of the European Left (EL), are increasingly asking themselves whether a reform of the EU is possible.
Europe is presently threatened by a dangerous social and political time bomb rooted deep in its foundations – a time bomb which we can and must defuse.
Never since the creation of the European Union has a crisis had so many repercussions for itscomponent populations. Never before has the collusion of interests between the world of finance, the Commission and the governments of the 28 been so visible.
Where does the radical left come from? To understand what unites the organisations of this new left and the nature of its radicalism we must go back to the years following the fall of the Berlin Wall.
For a long time discussions in European conferences, social forums and other assemblies have been either about the analysis of (European) conditions or the development of alternative proposals. In the...
In recent years, the Indignados and Occupy movements attracted previously unengaged, unorganised and de-politicised sections of the population and garnered significant attention in the media.
It is a well-known fact that the German right is divided over its attitude to the Euro. In the parliamentary elections of September 2013, a party of so-called ‘Euro-sceptics’ almost reached the 5 % threshold for entering parliament.
Nové nastartování průmyslové politiky v Evropě je potřebné z pěti závažných důvodů. První tkví v makroekonomice; k překonání současné deprese je třeba značné zvýšení poptávky, které by mohlo vzejít z celoevropského veřejného investičního programu.
After the latest drama in Lampedusa, where more than 350 immigrants, mostly Eritreans, perished 600 metres from the Italian coast, the immigration policies of the European Union and its member states are more than ever under scrutiny.
It’s been a while since a report has last caused so much uproar in the European Parliament as Edite Estrela’s on sexual and reproductive health and rights did (A7-0306/2013).1
Today, agriculture is facing a crisis – it is being undermined by capitalism. Although everyone in the world could be fed by current agricultural production, one person in seven suffers from hunger.
From the perspective of economic policy initiatives, one of most notable developments since Croatia’s entry into the EU on 1 July 2013 is an intensified drive towards completing the privatisation process of the remaining publicly owned assets.
Since the sequence of presidential and legislative elections in 2012, the Left Front (Front de gauche) has been riven by a series of serious disputes that have kept it from recovering the unity of action that it once had.
What is popular theatre? – There are two theatre perspectives. Theatre is for the people when it sees the world from the perspective of the people, i.e. understood in constant transformation, with all...
Ces dernières années ont vu le déclenchement de mouvements étudiants puissants dans plusieurs pays, du Nord comme du Sud : au Chili en 2011, au Québec (Canada) en 2012 puis au Brésil en 2013. Partout, une même revendication pour un système universitaire plus démocratique.