Network established at the initiative of:
Espaces Marx (France), Fondation Rosa Luxemburg (Allemagne), Fondation Nicos Poulantzas (Grèce), Commission de Recherche du PRC (Italie), Fundacion de Investigaciones Marxistas (Espagne), Revue Sozialismus (Allemagne), Transform ! at (Autriche)
In this period of deep-reaching upheavals and search for alternatives, a strong determination is expressing itself to create new transnational areas for “exploring, confronting, innovating” ; to identify original issues, understand the processes of the past or those operating today ; to clarify the experience of the 20th Century, to carry out a critique of the logics of domination, to rethink the alternative to contemporary capitalism in new terms, to develop knowledge and theoretical thinking as contributions to the social, political and civic movements so as to contribute to the dynamics of transformation and to rethink the struggle for emancipation from the local to the worldwide levels.
Several associations, Foundations and Institutes and periodicals, most of whom have a long career of activity in their own countries are, thus, working together in an area of dialogue, a framework of permanent work in the form of a network : TRANSFORM !
Already to its credit : 3 European seminars on Contemporary Capirtalism, some international encounters - often linked to the Porto Alegre process and the emergence of new struggles in Europe - to numerous problems : peace and war within globalisation, and the role of Europe ; the relations between Europe and Latin America ; globalisation, empire and imperialism ; socialism, communism and democracy today. Taking its stand on the political terrain of a “trnasformational left”, Transform ! is making every effort to develop themes that constitute important issues : social and civic rights in Europe ; the dismantling of the pension and public sector systems ; the problems of the enlargement of the E.U. ; economic democracy ; participative democracy at local level ; power, property and social transformation ; the transformation of work ; social classes and actors in social transformation ; the Left and Europe ; the growth of populist and extreme right trends in Europe ; social and political movement.
Already present in the previous World Social Fora, we will also be present in Mumbai in 2004.