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European Left Party founded

François Vercammen — 2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

Fifteen parties from the Communist tradition from eleven different countries held a congress in Rome, on May 8-9, 2004, to found the European Left Party or ELP.

- IV360/1 - Autumn 2004 / Europe

Anti-capitalist left faces elections

François Vercammen — 2004-05-16T00:00:00Z

The parties and movements of the European anti-capitalist left met again in April. This one day meeting had a special character, because it was held in the context of a European Union (EU) summit and there are elections to the European parliament in June 2004 that will exert significantly more influence on the political framework than was the case at the last elections in 1999.

- IV359 - May/June 2004 / Europe

European Anti-Capitalist Left: Preparing for battle

François Vercammen — 2004-02-17T00:00:00Z

The seventh conference of the European Anti-Capitalist Left (EACL), held in Paris during the European Social Forum on November 10-11, 2003, took place against the background of a world situation that unceasingly confirms the will to resist of peoples, workers, women and youth. Clashes and crises succeed each other at overwhelming speed - stock market crashes, bankruptcies of financial and industrial giants, collapses of entire sectors of the economy in some countries (Argentina), US invasions, complete political disarray following occupation, the crisis of the European Union's stability pact and so on.

- IV356 - February 2004 / Europe

The new stage and its difficulties

François Vercammen — 2003-11-18T00:00:00Z

Faced with an employers' offensive seeking to impose counter-reforms throughout the European Union, largely spontaneous social mobilizations have borne witness to the legitimacy crisis of the neoliberal model, already apparent in the success of the movement for global justice.

- IV354 - November 2003 / Europe

6th Congress of the European Anti-Capitalist Left

François Vercammen — 2003-09-19T00:00:00Z

The European Anti-capitalist Left, at its Athens conference, took the decision to constitute ourselves as a specific current (by history, tradition, political sympathies), according to the terminology used by the EU to designate organizations, "a European Party of the Anti-capitalist Left".

- IV353 - September 2003 / Europe

America Inc vs Europe plc

François Vercammen — 2003-05-09T00:00:00Z

Whoever associates themselves with this enterprise risks discredit, opprobrium and rejection. That has been the fate of the British, Spanish, Italian and Australian governments - they have been faced with the largest and most dynamic anti-war movements.

- IV349 - May 2003 / War drive/Anti-war movements

At the heart of the anti-capitalist combat...

François Vercammen — 2003-05-09T00:00:00Z

The Fourth International held its 15th congress in early February 2003 in Belgium. Delegates and observers, representing organizations from 40 countries debated and adopted resolutions on the world political situation (which also included a balance sheet of Stalinism and resistances to capitalist globalization), the role and tasks of the Fourth International, a new Preamble to the Statutes as well as a reform of the Statutes, and two programmatic documents: 'Lesbian and Gay Liberation' and 'Ecology and Socialism'.

- IV349 - May 2003 / Fourth International

Towards a European left party

François Vercammen — 2002-12-14T00:00:00Z

On the eve of the European Social Forum, Italy's Party of Communist Refoundation (PRC) organized a two-day meeting (on November 5-6, 2002). On the agenda: the EU and the question of war, social and citizens' rights, an economic perspective and a political alternative; and a proposal for a European political party.

- IV346 - December 2002 / Europe, New parties of the left

Birth of a new European social movement

François Vercammen — 2002-12-14T00:00:00Z

The European Social Forum held in Florence in November 2002 will go down in the history of the workers' movement.

- IV346 - December 2002 / Europe, Social Forum

A European left strategy

François Vercammen — 2002-03-07T00:00:00Z

The third Conference of the European anti-capitalist left was held in Brussels on December 12-13, 2001. It brought together parties, alliances and anti-capitalist movements from 10 countries, all committed in their respective countries to policies of regroupment and convergence.

- IV338 - March 2002 / Europe