2019 will be a decisive year for the fate of Europe and therefore for the world balance. In the upcoming European Elections, nationalist and populist rights could take in their hands the EU to make it a purely liberal and even a nationalist subject. transform! europe supports this international conference to understand the causes of this risk.
At 30 years since 1989, which was celebrated as the victory of freedom, the birth of a new world (and a new Europe), even as the end of history, reality appears unfortunately very different. After years of ordoliberals policies that have seriously worsened the working and living conditions of the working classes and devastated the European social texture, Europe risks seeing the prevailing in the next European elections of xenophobic, nationalist and populist rights that can take in their hands the EU to make it a liberal and even a nationalist subject.
It is fundamental, to understand the causes of this dramatic risk and to put ourselves in a position as leftist alternatives, to represent the heart and the engine of an answer even facing the crisis of European social democracy which has great responsibility in what is happening.
Italy is the first great founding country of the process of European integration which saw the emergence of a right-wing populist government. Also for this reason we want to take this appointment here, choosing for a symbolic mean a city like Turin that was a fundamental place for the workers’ movement.
Programme
Saturday 9th March
1st panel: 9:30 – 11:00
Populist Thinking. Populism Between Theory and Politics
Introduction: Haris Golemis, transform! europe
· From Gramsci to Laclau
Pasquale Voza, University of Bari
· Populism: the Left, the Right and Demoliberalims
Cecilia Honório, Former deputy Bloqo de Esquerda
· The Age fo Sovereignism
Alvaro Aguiler, PCE Madrid
2nd panel: 11:30 – 13:00
Courses And Historical Recourses: Old And New Populisms
Coordination: Alfonso Gianni, transform! italia
· The Weimar crisis and today’s
Walter Baier, transform! europe
· From Neoliberism to Populisms
Gabriele Michalitsch, University of Vienna
3rd panel: 14:30 – 16:30
The Italian Case
Coordination: Roberto Musacchio, transform! italia
· The crisis of the Left
Luciana Castellina, Italian intellectual
· The “Pentaleghista” govern
Monica De Sisto, Italian activist
· Italy and Europe
Eleonora Forenza, MEP Altra Europa con Tsipras
4th panel: 17:00 – 20:00
Europe Now
Coordination: Paola Boffo
· South Europe Countries
Danai Koltsida, NPI Greece
Yiannos Katsourides, Prometeus Research Institute Cyprus
João Mineiro, Bloco de Esquerda Portogallo
· East Countries
Attila Vajnai, Worker’s Party Hungry
· The French case
Yann Le Lann, Espaces Marx, France
· The German case
Daniel Keil, Rosa Luxemburg Fundation, Germany
Sunday, 10th March
5th Panel: 9:30 – 11:00
Coordination: Rosa Rinaldi
For an alternative European Left
· The class struggle in Europe
Gianni Rinaldini, President of Sabattini Foundation, Italy
· Feminist Conflict
Nicoletta Pirotta, IFE Italy
· Fight against the Rigth wing and neoliberal
Heinz Bierbaum, Die Linke, Germany
Final Consideration: 11:30 – 13:00
Coordination: Roberto Morea, transform! italia
Paolo Ferrero, Vice President European Left Party
Tatiana Moutinho, transform! europe