If this newsletter doesn't display properly, click here Newsletter 24 March 2014 Since December 2009 the transform! europe newsletter has been published regularly once a month. It contains information about the activities of our network, its members and observing members and about important initiatives of social movements we are taking part in. Featured Article Preliminary Analysis, Results, Evaluation The European elections from a left perspective The European elections on May 22 - 25 will be crucial. They offer the possibility for the European populations to give their verdict on the policy of the institutions and to express their expectations and hopes for change. transform! europe will present on its website preliminary analysis,... [read more... ] Blog transform! Research Project European Perceptions in the Crisis This transform! research project is investigating political perceptions in the crisis and aims at understanding subjective paths of resignation and rebellion regarding capitalist domination. From materials such as opinion surveys or more qualitative studies, it seeks to characterize the evolution of... [read more... ] Slovenia Founding Congress of the Initiative for Democratic Socialism By Anej Korsika On 8 March, the “Initiative for Democratic Socialism” (IDS) had its founding congress and officially transformed itself into a political party. In the invitation to the congress we have written that in the last twenty years all political parties in Slovenia have been representatives of one and the... [read more... ] Videos Online Freedom of Information Under Pressure About 280 participants have been at the international conference on 28 February and 1 March entitled Freedom of Information under Pressure: Control - Crisis - Culture, organized by the University of Vienna, transform!at and the Critical Librarians Association (KRIBIBI) at the Vienna University. ... [read more... ] From the Bologna Process to the Dismissal of a Dean: The Pretext for Privatization of Greek Higher Education By Maria Nikolakaki Higher education reforms, by using a discourse of quality, competitiveness and “attractiveness” of the university, are of the most important risks going on in many countries, as they are connected not only with issues such as the denigration of university as a public good with the relative reduction... [read more... ] Report of a Brussels Meeting Undocumented Workers and Class Consciousness: Which Role for Trade Unions? By Laura Leprêtre On 11 March, the Association Culturelle Joseph Jacquemotte organised a debate at Espace Marx Brussels inviting the two main Belgian trade unions (FGTB and CSC) and two undocumented workers to speak about class consciousness and solidarity between undocumented workers and regular workers in Belgium. [read more... ] Feminists for Another Europe The Power Of The Ideology: Feminism And Its Critical Examination Speech held by the philosopher and psychoanalyst Nicole-Edith Thevenin at the public meeting on 9 November 2013 in Capannori, Italy, during the FAE’s European meeting. [read more... ] Ukraine ‘If the left movements don’t unite, only the far right will benefit from social anger’ By Maxime Benatouil, Volodymyr Ishchenko Interview with Volodymyr Ishchenko, Deputy Director of the Center for Society Research in Kiev (28 February) [read more... ] Calendar 03 April 2014 – 01 January 1970 European Seminar by the Alter Summit Network Strategies for the Struggle Against Far Right and Neo-Nazism in Europe Nowhere in Europe has a nascent fascist movement made greater inroads than in Hungary, where the far-right Jobbik party has staked a hold on the hearts and minds of Hungarian youth and won 17 percent of the Hungarian Parliament in 2010. [read more... ] 04 April 2014 – 01 January 1970 "Fighting for: Investments, Quality jobs, Equality" ETUC Euro-demonstration The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) calls for a demonstration in Brussels. [read more... ] 10 April 2014 – 01 January 1970 EL and transform! europe invite to a conference: “Together We Can Put an End to the Problems of Debt and Austerity in Europe” A few weeks before crucial European elections, the proposals of the European Left shall be discussed with the world of work, trade unionists, social movements and critical intellectuals. [read more... ] Share this email with your friends or visit us on: Contact us Authors: Subscribe to the transform! newsletter The transform! newsletter is a free email sent by our network straight to your inbox. To sign up for the newsletter go to our website www.transform-network.net and select your preferred language. If you want to unsubscribe please click here.