Central and Eastern Europe

9 Apr 2022

Voices for Peace

In reaction to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, transform! europe has issued a Peace Manifesto. A variety of other organisations advocate for peace as well: left parties and movements, NGOs, human rights organisations, peace movements, trade unions, religious groups, and many more.

By Attila Vajnai | 5 Apr 2022

Hungary: The Neoliberal Parliamentary Opposition’s Alliance With the Far Right Has Failed

The Chairperson of the Workers' Party of Hungary 2006 and member of the Secretariat of the Party of the European Left, Attila Vajnai, provides a left viewpoint on the Hungarian parliamentary election.

31 Mar 2022

Anybody Can End Up As Refugee – Respect and Humanitarian Acts For All!

The war in Ukraine still goes on – about 3 million people (1.4 million of them are children) have already left their home country, while the caravans of people on the border with Poland and Ukraine’s other neighbouring states are growing every day.

By Volodymyr Ishchenko | 30 Mar 2022

Why Did Ukraine Suspend 11 ‘Pro-Russia’ Parties?

The suspensions have more to do with the post-Euromaidan polarisation of Ukrainian politics than genuine security concerns related to the Russian invasion.

23 Mar 2022

End the Ban of Opposition Parties in Ukraine

Last Sunday, 20 March, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s announced that the National Security and Defence Council had suspended 11 Ukrainian political parties for their alleged links to Russia. Read the statement of Heinz Bierbaum, President of the Party of the European Left.

21 Mar 2022

Workers need a wage to live on – A Living Wage

The Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC), supported by transform! europe, presents a policy paper on workers' wages in the garment and sportswear industries in Central, Eastern, and Southern Europe.

By Luciana Castellina | 17 Mar 2022

“We need to prevent pacifism from turning into merely intermittent protest”, Luciana Castellina says

Speech of the founder of the Italian newspaper Il Manifesto and of the Partito di Unità Proletaria, former MEP Luciana Castellina, at the 'Europe for Peace' rally on 5 March in Rome.

By Holger Politt | 14 Mar 2022

The Legitimisation of a War: Risky Game with Old Accounts

It was not until the Peace of Riga in 1921 that the struggle between Poland and Soviet Russia over Ukraine and Belarus came to an end.

By Attila Antal, Tamás Krausz | 17 Feb 2022

Without a Left Alternative, Resistance Channels Behind the Far Right

Tamás Krausz, founding editor of the periodical Eszmélet (Consciousness), a Hungarian journal for social critique and culture, talks to Attila Antal, editor-in-chief of Eszmélet.

By Jan Klán | 16 Feb 2022

The Contemporary Beginning of Czech McCarthyism

The new Czech right-wing government is not just one of the many governments that have taken power in the Czech Republic over the past 30 years. It is a government that recalls the beginnings of McCarthyism in the US in the late 1940s.

By Dagmar Švendová, Tatiana Moutinho | 1 Feb 2022

Study: Hundred Shades of the EU. Mapping the Political Economy of EU Peripheries

The study focuses on the political economy of the EU using core and periphery dynamics and comparative analysis.

By Dagmar Švendová, Giuseppe Celi, Tatiana Moutinho, Valentina Petrović, Veronika Sušová-Salminen | 26 Nov 2021

Hundred Shades of the EU – Mapping the Political Economy of the EU Peripheries

“Hundred shades of the EU – Mapping the Political Economy of the EU Peripheries”, is a title of the research study, conducted by transform! europe with the support of the Rosa-Luxemburg Foundation that aims at characterizing at the socio-economic, political, and cultural levels the current existing peripheries within the European Union.

By Jan Kavan | 20 Nov 2021

Jan Kavan: Not giving in to pressure from the powerful inspires respect, giving unwanted lessons makes us ridiculous

Czechia should be firmly entrenched in the EU, but the EU must change. Into a united, just and prosperous Europe. Czechia can also find a new, unique role in it. If we can use historical experience and learn to resolve disputes by an agreement, we can become mediators and peacekeepers in a number of conflicts.

By Dagmar Švendová | 29 Oct 2021

Interview With Kateřina Konečná, Newly Elected Chairwoman of the KSČM

At the Czech Communist Party’s (Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia - KSČM) 23 October congress a new leadership was elected with Kateřina Konečná, a current MEP, as new chairwoman. The interview was conducted right after the congress by transform! europe’s Dagmar Švendová.

By Gavin Rae | 21 Oct 2021

The Victims on Europe’s Eastern Borders

A humanitarian emergency is once again developing on the European Union’s borders: Refugees find themselves trapped between Poland and Belarus as Polish government takes increasingly aggressive action and even declared the state of emergency in two of its regions.

By Jiří Málek | 12 Oct 2021

Czech Elections: All Fears Have Come True

Prime minister Andrej Babiš’s party narrowly lost in the Czech Republic’s parliamentary election. For the left, the result was a disaster: both social democrats and communists failed to enter Parliament.

4 Sep 2021

On the 140th Birthday of Otto Bauer (1881-1938)

On 5 September 1881, Otto Bauer, one of the most prominent Austro-Marxist theorist of the inter-war period, was born. Find here a compilation of texts and lectures on Otto Bauer's work and impact.

By Walter Baier | 4 Sep 2021

The Relevance of Otto Bauer and Austro-Marxism Today

More than a century ago, socialists in Austria were calling themselves ‘socialists’ because they wanted to create a new social model known as ‘socialism’. At their intellectual peak, they set up a school of Marxist theory, which they described as being separate from both social-democratic reformism as well as the dogmatism of the Communist International.

15 Jul 2021

Remembering Late Socialism in Autobiographical Novels and Autofictions from Central and Eastern Europe

In the latest issue of the European Journal of Life Writing, guest editors Agnieszka Mrozik and Anja Tippner explore the role of autobiographical writing in commemorating the past as well as in demonstrating the demise of socialism, as represented in contemporary literatures in Czech, Polish, Romanian, and Russian – supported by transform! europe.

1 Jul 2021

The Austrian Revolution

The classic work by the most prominent Austro-Marxist theorist of the inter-war period, Otto Bauer, now available in English for the first time in full.

By Vladimir Yakovlevich Shveitser | 22 Jun 2021

USSR and Germany: On the Way to 22 June 1941

On 22 June 1941, Nazi Germany began its war of extermination against the Soviet Union, displacing and killing millions. The date also marks the beginning of the extermination of Europe’s Jews. Russian-based historian and member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladimir Shveitser, analyses the geopolitical situation preceding the German attack.

By Veronika Sušová-Salminen | 26 May 2021

Zelensky Follows Poroshenko’s Path

Veronika Sušová-Salminen argues that the Ukrainian president has in many ways returned to the policies of his predecessor, Petro Poroshenko.

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