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By Maria Jaidopulu Vrijea, Sandro Mezzadra | 9 May 2016

The Renationalisation of Politics

An interview about the refugee crisis with Sandro Mezzadra, an expert on migration and Associate Professor of Political Theory at the University of Bologna.

By Heidi Meinzolt | 4 May 2016

The Refugee Crisis Is Not Gender Neutral

Independently of the concrete threats, women are facing if they have to flee (internal displacement as well as seeking refuge in neighbouring countries or in the EU), the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) is protesting against the root causes of war and violence which force them to flee.

By Mirko Messner | 25 Apr 2016

Right-winger prevails in Austria

In a first reaction Communist Party of Austria’s chair Mirko Messner made the following statement:

By Lorenzo Marsili | 20 Apr 2016

DiEM25 in Rome with Yanis Varoufakis

Last 23 March, European Alternatives and DiEM25 organised “Democracy in Europe”, a large-scale event that brought together in Rome hundreds of Europeans claiming a different path for the current model of Europe.

By Theodora Kotsaka | 20 Apr 2016

Copyright versus Community

As a continuation of NPI’s research work on ‘commons’, an open event was organized in Athens on 11 April in cooperation with transform! europe. The speech was given by Dr. Richard Stallman under the title ‘Copyright vs. Community’.

19 Apr 2016

Prime Ministers of Greece and Portugal signed a joint declaration

On 11 April Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras of Greece and Prime Minister António Costa of Portugal met in Athens to discuss the political and economic challenges facing Europe and their respective countries, as well as the need for forming a progressive front and promoting alternative policies to address these challenges.

18 Apr 2016

“Mapping the European Left. Socialist Parties in the EU”

Study by Dominic Heilig, April 2016

15 Apr 2016

The refugee drama: a call for a change of course in Europe and in Germany

Over 70 German intellectuals, leading trade union officers and prominent politicians of SPD, Green Party and The Left have published an appeal which takes the ongoing refugee crisis as a reason for the call for a radical change of course in European and German policies.

By Gabi Zimmer | 12 Apr 2016

A left-wing refugee policy for the EU

Thesis 1: Century of Refugees The 21st century will be the Century of Refugees. Today, 91 percent of the migrants arriving in Greece are war refugees from countries like Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan. Due to civil wars and climate catastrophes many more people will be forced to leave their homes worldwide. Many of them will

By Rade Dragojević | 12 Apr 2016

Right-wing radicalism from above

As things now stand, the new Croatian government is clearly demonstrating the intention of following most negative European political trends. These trends can be observed, for example, in Poland, Hungary and the Ukraine. Three months ago, a coalition of right wing parties came into power.

By Roland Kulke | 7 Apr 2016

Better Regulation Package

Better Regulation is about strengthening the competiveness of enterprises – however, not by giving them a technological edge, but exclusively by cutting costs. In essence, it means that unproductive businesses will be subsidised. Furhermore, the European Commission wants to seize control of the legislative process and neutralise, first of all, the European Parliament.

By Michael Löwy | 6 Apr 2016

Marxist-Christian Symposium on Common Challenges in Europe

The election of Pope Francis obviously created a new climate for the relations between the Church and the European Left. At the meeting in September 2014 between the Pope, Alexis Tsipras and Walter Baier, the principle was adopted of beginning a new process of dialogue between Catholics and Marxists.

By Cornelia Hildebrandt | 5 Apr 2016

The 2016 German Regional Elections

The regional elections held on 13 March 2016 in the German states of Baden-Württemberg, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saxony-Anhalt were the first elections to take place in some of the larger German regions since the European elections and the regional elections held in 2014. Almost 13 million voters were called to the ballot, representing over one fifth of the German electorate. 1.3 million voters cast their ballot in favour of the ...

By Maxime Benatouil | 1 Apr 2016

“We are worth better than this”

160 000 demonstrators in Paris, 120 000 in Marseille, 100 000 in Toulouse… All in all, more than one million workers, students and pensioners took to the streets on March 31^st throughout France to oppose the dismantling of the code du travail, the set of labour laws and regulations.

By Diana Mulinari | 31 Mar 2016

Second International Congress of Marxism-Feminism

“Building Bridges – shifting and strengthening visions – exploring alternatives”. Vienna, 7-9 October 2016.

30 Mar 2016

CEE Social Forum

Globalization, racism, economic crisis, workers’ rights, imperialism – these are just some of the topics of the discussions during the 2nd CEE Social Forum held in Wroclaw, Poland, between 11 and 13 March. transform! Hungary participated in the forum which was attended by left-wing activists from around the world.

By Roberto Morea | 30 Mar 2016

Production and Commons Workshop

Activists and social researchers from across Europe discussed concrete ways to overcome the capitalist organization of production through commoning and factory workers’ self-management.

By Attila Melegh | 25 Mar 2016

Political discourses and key elements of the refugee crisis

The so called refugee crisis and related discursive strategies have at least four key elements, namely the conflicts of the regions from where refugees come; change in the migratory position of Europe; overall structures of European identity and related political manoeuvring, and the direct debates over modes of handling the refugee waves.

24 Mar 2016

Global migration crisis and Europe: Whose crisis is it?

INTERSECTIONS.EEJSP, an online quarterly published by the Centre for Social Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences has recently issued a call for papers on the current questions regarding migration.

By Michal Frič | 24 Mar 2016

Darkness at the End of the Tunnel

An analysis of the outcome of the 2016 Slovak parliamentary elections. What were the expectations beforehand, what actually happened and what does this mean for the Slovak and European left?

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