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  • Appeal to all Heads of States and Governments of the European Union Member countries and other European States
    11 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Taking into the most serious consideration the ongoing war in Lebanon as well as the military oppression of the Palestinian people, particularly in the Gaza strip,
    Considering the shocking news on the growing humanitarian catastrophe the ongoing battles in South Lebanon and the air rides on civilian targets in almost all parts of Lebanon create for the people of that country,
    Realizing the results of the political talks a delegation of the Party of the European Left had with politicians (…)

  • Italian Communists Move Beyond Communism
    1 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Il Manifesto
    Fausto Bertinotti, Secretary of the Italian Communist Refoundation Party (PRC), talks to Valentino Parlato, founding editor of the Communist daily Il Manifesto, about the challenges facing the next center-left government, the challenges to Marxist orthodoxy posed by the powerful rise of democratic mass movements, and the development of the Party of the European Left, a project which Bertinotti is leading in Italy. (Translated by Vittorio Longhi)
    These days much has been said (…)

  • Europe’s radical left is still struggling to articulate new strategies for social, economic and political change
    20 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Emerging New Euroleft
    by Hilary Wainwright Manchester
    From my desk in the north of England, the grass seems considerably greener—or the poppies redder—across the water in Europe. Here in Britain political look-alikes compete frenetically for the center ground, and politicians of the radical left are sidelined by a grossly disproportionate electoral system. In contrast, Norway’s Left Socialist Party is part of the government; Italy’s radical Partito della Rifondazione Comunista (…)

  • General Election in Italy 2006: Great success for the Partito della Rifondazione Comunista in Italy!
    12 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Information on General Election in Italy 2006
    The result of our party is excellent: Rifondazione has increased its votes everywhere, both in percentage and in absolute votes: from 5% achieved at the 2001 election to 5.8% at the Chamber of Deputies or lower house (from 1,867,712 votes to 2,229,604) and 7.4% at the Senate, the upper house (from 1,707,175 to 2,518,624). 41 MPs will represent our party at the lower house (instead of 11) and 27 senators at the Senate (instead of 3). This is (…)

  • France’s political crisis grows as 3 million take to streets
    5 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Angelique Chrisafis in Paris
    Police fought running battles with rioters in central Paris last night as youths attacked officers with bangers, bottles and concrete at the end of a mass demonstration against a youth employment law that has caused a political crisis for Jacques Chirac’s ruling party.
    Trade unionists and student leaders said up to three million people took to the streets across France yesterday - the second time in eight days that the country has seen its biggest street (…)

  • A call from the Collettivo Bellaciao General election in Italy
    24 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    On the 9th of April there will be the general election in Italy.
    For the first time Italians living abroad can use a postal vote to participate in the election and vote for constituency representatives, and one of the constituencies is Europe.
    In this election there will be a coalition of the parties in the left (DS, Margherita, Italian Comunists, Rifondazione Comunista, Democratic Socialist and Green) called UNIONE which has as the prime mininster candidate Romano Prodi. You will find (…)

  • Athens Declaration
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    We, the European Left, gathered in Athens on the 29th and 30th of October, 2005, acknowledge that the crisis currently afflicting Europe has no borders, and that the neo-liberal policies decided upon in Brussels and by the national governments are to blame for it. These choices have been made over a period of many years, and the result is in front of our eyes, now.
    We also acknowledge that the peoples of Europe, who have suffered most from these policies, are fighting against them and (…)

  • Yes, we can change EUROPE
    19 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    See below the EL Executive Board motion to the 1st Congress of the Party of the European Left, Athens 2005.
    Introduction 1. building peace 2. building another economic model for a social Europe 3. building participatory and radical democracy 4. building alliances
    INTRODUCTION
    The first Congress of the Party of the European Left is being held at what is truly an "extraordinary" time: today we are faced with the huge challenge of opening a new political and social cycle in Europe. Since (…)

  • Italian primary elections : the list of polling stations in the world
    12 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    We invite all italians to partecipate to primary election the 16th of October and vote for Fausto BERTINOTTI.
    There will be elections in Italy on the 6th of April 2006, and in preparation for this the coalition of the left is holding primaries to choose the candidate who will run against Berlusconi.
    The poll will take place on Sunday 16 October from 9am til 10pm in a place TBC. All Italian citizens currently living in every countries in the world, even temporarily (i.e. students to, for (…)

  • Bellaciao GB - A message to all Italians in the UK and to their British friends
    11 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Dear friends, we would like to ask your help in disseminating this message. There will be elections in Italy on the 6th of April 2006, and in preparation for this the coalition of the left is holding primaries to choose the candidate who will run against Berlusconi.
    We recently formed the Bellaciao Collective of Great Britain, a group dedicated to supporting the political activities of the progressive sections of the Italian diaspora in the UK (more on the group at the end of this (…)