The Left

By Walter Baier | 2 Apr 2020

Anti-Communism – ‘One of the Greatest Follies of Our Epoch’

On 19 September of last year the European Parliament – with the votes of the conservatives, liberals, social democrats, and greens – passed a resolution in which the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany were made equally responsible for the Second World War. Europe was, so the statement went, the victim of two totalitarian ideologies, one

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By Gabi Zimmer | 2 Apr 2020

Manolis, You Will Never Be Forgotten!

Gabi Zimmer remembers Manolis Glezos who passed away on 30 March 2020 at the age of 98 in Athens.

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By Heinz Bierbaum | 31 Mar 2020

The Corona Crisis and the Need for a Change of Policy

Read the essay by Heinz Bierbaum, president of the Party of the European Left.

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31 Mar 2020

Protect the People, not the System! Change Politics Immediately.

Read here the statement of the Party of the European Left on the coronacrisis.

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30 Mar 2020

Goodbye Comrade. Θα νικήσουμε!

Manolis Glezos, the great Greek and European leftist guerilla and politician passed away today at the age of 98.

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6 Mar 2020

4th International Marxist Feminist Conference 2021 in Bilbao

The 4th International Conference will be held in Bilbao, on 11-13 November 21. This Conference will be organized and funded by transform! europe and the University of the Basque Country, along with Iratzar Foundation, Bilbo-Barcelona Critical Theory Group, Berliner Institut für Kritische Theorie (Inkrit) and Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, among others.

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4 Mar 2020

Europe in the Brave New World. transform! yearbook 2020

This year's transform! yearbook will be released in April 2020.

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By Jussi Saramo | 7 Feb 2020

Give the struggles of our times

When I joined the Left Alliance 20 years ago 13% of the Finnish people said that they could vote for the Left and almost all of them actually did it since in the elections we had 11 or even 12% of votes. Most of those voters were very old so it looked inevitable that the party would shrink and

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3 Feb 2020

European Left Congress

The Party of the European Left (PEL) held its sixth congress in the Spanish town of Benalmádena, near Málaga. The event took place between 13 and 15 December 2019 and brought together over 400 delegates representing 25 political parties from more than twenty European countries. Izquierda Unida and the Spanish Communist Party hosted the conference.

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By Walter Baier | 3 Feb 2020

The Fine Old and the Poor New

(Not only) The Left justly criticizes that by signing the government agreement the Greens have facilitated a continuation of the conservative and right-wing extremist strategy regarding refugee and migration policies. This criticism will become louder and possibly also lead to the break-up of the coalition.

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By Walter Baier | 20 Dec 2019

No Mean Task

Speech by Walter Baier at the 6th Party Congress of the Party of the European Left, December 14th, 2019

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By Roberto Morea | 28 Nov 2019

Summer University 2019: Report from Fiuggi

The Summer University was the European Left’s first public appointment following the elections, and, despite the fatigue of the electoral campaign, participation was good. Over 220 people registered for the three days of plenary sessions and seminars. As always, the quality of the interventions was high, and the fact that many of the participants frequently

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By Marga Ferre | 22 Nov 2019

Progressive Coalition Government in Spain. Unidas Podemos will be in the Government of the Country.

On Sunday, November 10, general elections took place in Spain. 48 hours later, the leaders of the PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party – social democrats) and Unidas Podemos (UP), Pedro Sánchez and Pablo Iglesias, announced a left-wing coalition government in Spain. Read Marga Ferré's comment and the preliminary agreement between PSOE and UP.

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By Walter Baier | 20 Nov 2019

In the Great Transformation

The Red-Green Alliance/Enhedslisten (Denmark) adopted at its Annual Congress on 5 – 6 October a program on globalisation entitled A Green Earth With Peace and Room for Us All, thus becoming the first party providing a comprehensive analysis on the current stage of international capitalism. Read Walter Baier's review.

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13 Nov 2019

Manon Aubry (LFI): ‘We are still very far from having the European Parliament exerting democratic control over the executive.’

This is a first in the balance of power between the Commission – the EU executive – and the European Parliament. Even before the scrutiny of the candidates for the future College of Commissioners, headed by Ursula von der Leyen, began on 30 September, two candidates were blocked by a majority of MEPs sitting on

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9 Nov 2019

Respect for Historical Memory in Europe

The board of transform! europe launches the following open letter regarding the resolution 'Europe must remember its past to build its future', adopted by the majority of the European Parliament – rejected by the GUE/NGL group.

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7 Nov 2019

Respect for Historical Memory in Europe

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6 Nov 2019

Respect for Historical Memory in Europe

The board of transform! europe launches the following open letter regarding the resolution "Europe must remember its past to build its future", adopted by the majority of the European Parliament – rejected by the GUE/NGL group.

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By Jiří Málek | 25 Oct 2019

Building Left Visions from Ireland to the Urals? – Report on the Russian Social Forum (RSF)

Jirí Málek on the necessity of a dialogue between leftists in Russia and other European countries.

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14 Oct 2019

Commemorating the Fortieth Anniversary of the Death of Nicos Poulantzas

3 October 2019 was the fortieth commemoration of the death of Nicos Poulantzas. Poulantzas was a Franco-Greek constitutional-law scholar, student of Louis Althusser, and is still today among the most important of Marxist state theorists. His understanding of the state as the ‘material condensation of a power relation between classes and class fractions’ not only

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By Luciana Castellina | 26 Sep 2019

The European Parliament Inured to Wiping Out Memory

On left silence and the foreign-policy motivation behind the revision of history contained in the European Parliament's resolution. Read Luciana Castellina's comment.

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23 Sep 2019

The Greek Left Since the 1940s. History Study Trip to Athens

For the third time already, present:history and transform! europe organize a history study trip to Greece. This time, we focused on Athens and the history of the Greek left since the 1940s for our main questions: Which role does history play for current political struggles? How can we talk about the past to grasp and

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By Kerem Schamberger | 13 Sep 2019

Asking you for solidarity

Kerem Schamberger, Vice-Chair of transform! europe’s member organisation ISW (Institute for Social, Ecological and Economic Studies) calls for solidarity and trial monitoring.

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