Left Strategies in the Covid Pandemic and Its Aftermath
transform! 2022 is the eighth of an annual series reporting on and analysing European and world political and social developments.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
- Walter Baier, Eric Canepa, Haris Golemis: Left Strategies in the Covid Pandemic and Its Aftermath
The Covid Pandemic and the Social and Political Left
- Leigh Phillips: A Programme for a Pandemic Justice Movement
- Ricardo Antunes: Pandemic Capitalism: What Now? 46
- Asbjørn Wahl: Covid-19 and Working-Class Power 59
- Donatella della Porta: Contentious Politics in Critical
- Emergency Junctures: The Pandemic and Progressive Social Movement Organisations
Geopolitical Shifts and Conflicts
- transform! europe Peace Manifesto: Stop the War! An Appeal for a Europe of Peace
- Veronika Sušová-Salminen: Can We Avert Further Wars? The West, Russia, and China in the World of Seismic Shifts
- Jan Campbell: China and Europe in the Foreseeable Future Silvina Romano, Tamara Lajtman, and Aníbal García Fernández: The Geopolitics of Covid in Latin America
The Marxist-Christian Dialogue
- Walter Baier: What Can the Socialist Left Learn From the Pope?
- Margareta Gruber: Without the City of Man There Can Be No Paradise on Earth: The Bible Ends with a Vision of a Megacity
- Michael Löwy: Marxisms and Christianities: Recent Publications
Europe
- Étienne Balibar: The Eternal Impossibility of a Democratic Europe and the Tasks of a ‘Party of Europe’
- Katerina Anastasiou and Axel Ruppert: Discuss Security – Reclaim the Future
- Nidžara Ahmetašević: Europe – from Fortress to Dungeon
- María Eugenia Rodríguez Palop: Migrants and Refugees: Pariahs of Europe
Social Democratic and Radical Left Political Strategies
- Luciana Castellina and Donald Sassoon: Social Democracy and the Radical Left: Old Divisions and the Imperatives of the New Socio-Ecological Crisis
- Gerassimos Moschonas: Social Democracy’s Electoral and Ideological Retreat, the European Union, and theRadical Left’s Dilemmas
- Steffen Lehndorff: From the New Deal of the 1930s to the Green New Deal of the 2020s
- Loren Balhorn: Class Struggle for Social Democracy
- Seraphim Seferiades: ‘Populism’ as a Cognitive Barrier: A Political Approach
- Dunja Larise: Why Is Austro-Marxism Still Worth Studying in the 21st Century?
Ecosocialism/Ecofeminism
- Ariel Salleh: A Relational Logic for The Left – Interviewed by Haris Golemis
- Michael Löwy: For an Ecosocialist ‘Great Transformation’: Fourteen Theses
- Anna Saave: Ecofeminism Now
European Country Reports
- Jana Tsoneva: Neoliberal Hysteresis: Lessons from Bulgaria’s Abortive Vaccination Campaign
- Mario Candeias: Decisive Elections and the Future of the Left in Germany
- Claudia Krieglsteiner: Pandemic De-Socialisation in Austria
- Francisco Louçã: Portugal: Time Is Running Out
Anniversary
- Daniel Finn: The Contested Legacy of Derry’s Bloody Sunday
Authors and Editors
Members and Observers of transform! europe
English edition published in the UK in 2021 by The Merlin Press
Central Books Building
Freshwater Road
London RM8 1RX
www.merlinpress.co.uk
transform! europe EUPF, Square de Meeûs 25, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
Partially financed through a subsidy from the European Parliament.
ISSN 1865-3480
ISBN 978-0-85036-770-6
Printed in the UK by Imprint Digital, Exeter
Nidžara Ahmetaševic´
Katerina Anastasiou
Ricardo Antunes
Walter Baier
Loren Balhorn
Étienne Balibar
Jan Campbell
Mario Candeias
Eric Canepa
Luciana Castellina
Donatella della Porta
Daniel Finn
Aníbal García Fernández
Haris Golemis
Margareta Gruber
Claudia Krieglsteiner
Tamara Lajtman
Dunja Larise
Steffen Lehndorff
Francisco Louça¯
Michael Löwy
Gerassimos Moschonas
Leigh Phillips
María Eugenia Rodríguez Palop
Silvina Romano
Axel Ruppert
Anna Saave
Ariel Salleh
Donald Sassoon
Seraphim Seferiades
Veronika Sušová-Salminen
Jana Tsoneva
Asbjørn Wahl
Editors: Walter Baier, Eric Canepa, Haris Golemis
Managing Editor: Vaggia Lyssikatou
Editorial Board: Walter Baier, Eric Canepa, Haris Golemis,
Adoración Guamán Hernández, Dagmar Švendová, Andreas Thomsen
English edition published in the UK in 2021 by The Merlin Press
Central Books Building
Freshwater Road
London RM8 1RX
www.merlinpress.co.uk
transform! europe EUPF, Square de Meeûs 25, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
Partially financed through a subsidy from the European Parliament.
ISSN 1865-3480
ISBN 978-0-85036-770-6
Printed in the UK by Imprint Digital, Exeter
Nidžara Ahmetaševic´
Katerina Anastasiou
Ricardo Antunes
Walter Baier
Loren Balhorn
Étienne Balibar
Jan Campbell
Mario Candeias
Eric Canepa
Luciana Castellina
Donatella della Porta
Daniel Finn
Aníbal García Fernández
Haris Golemis
Margareta Gruber
Claudia Krieglsteiner
Tamara Lajtman
Dunja Larise
Steffen Lehndorff
Francisco Louça¯
Michael Löwy
Gerassimos Moschonas
Leigh Phillips
María Eugenia Rodríguez Palop
Silvina Romano
Axel Ruppert
Anna Saave
Ariel Salleh
Donald Sassoon
Seraphim Seferiades
Veronika Sušová-Salminen
Jana Tsoneva
Asbjørn Wahl
Editors: Walter Baier, Eric Canepa, Haris Golemis
Managing Editor: Vaggia Lyssikatou
Editorial Board: Walter Baier, Eric Canepa, Haris Golemis,
Adoración Guamán Hernández, Dagmar Švendová, Andreas Thomsen
Preface
- Walter Baier, Eric Canepa, Haris Golemis: Left Strategies in the Covid Pandemic and Its Aftermath
The Covid Pandemic and the Social and Political Left
- Leigh Phillips: A Programme for a Pandemic Justice Movement
- Ricardo Antunes: Pandemic Capitalism: What Now? 46
- Asbjørn Wahl: Covid-19 and Working-Class Power 59
- Donatella della Porta: Contentious Politics in Critical
- Emergency Junctures: The Pandemic and Progressive Social Movement Organisations
Geopolitical Shifts and Conflicts
- transform! europe Peace Manifesto: Stop the War! An Appeal for a Europe of Peace
- Veronika Sušová-Salminen: Can We Avert Further Wars? The West, Russia, and China in the World of Seismic Shifts
- Jan Campbell: China and Europe in the Foreseeable Future Silvina Romano, Tamara Lajtman, and Aníbal García Fernández: The Geopolitics of Covid in Latin America
The Marxist-Christian Dialogue
- Walter Baier: What Can the Socialist Left Learn From the Pope?
- Margareta Gruber: Without the City of Man There Can Be No Paradise on Earth: The Bible Ends with a Vision of a Megacity
- Michael Löwy: Marxisms and Christianities: Recent Publications
Europe
- Étienne Balibar: The Eternal Impossibility of a Democratic Europe and the Tasks of a ‘Party of Europe’
- Katerina Anastasiou and Axel Ruppert: Discuss Security – Reclaim the Future
- Nidžara Ahmetašević: Europe – from Fortress to Dungeon
- María Eugenia Rodríguez Palop: Migrants and Refugees: Pariahs of Europe
Social Democratic and Radical Left Political Strategies
- Luciana Castellina and Donald Sassoon: Social Democracy and the Radical Left: Old Divisions and the Imperatives of the New Socio-Ecological Crisis
- Gerassimos Moschonas: Social Democracy’s Electoral and Ideological Retreat, the European Union, and theRadical Left’s Dilemmas
- Steffen Lehndorff: From the New Deal of the 1930s to the Green New Deal of the 2020s
- Loren Balhorn: Class Struggle for Social Democracy
- Seraphim Seferiades: ‘Populism’ as a Cognitive Barrier: A Political Approach
- Dunja Larise: Why Is Austro-Marxism Still Worth Studying in the 21st Century?
Ecosocialism/Ecofeminism
- Ariel Salleh: A Relational Logic for The Left – Interviewed by Haris Golemis
- Michael Löwy: For an Ecosocialist ‘Great Transformation’: Fourteen Theses
- Anna Saave: Ecofeminism Now
European Country Reports
- Jana Tsoneva: Neoliberal Hysteresis: Lessons from Bulgaria’s Abortive Vaccination Campaign
- Mario Candeias: Decisive Elections and the Future of the Left in Germany
- Claudia Krieglsteiner: Pandemic De-Socialisation in Austria
- Francisco Louçã: Portugal: Time Is Running Out
Anniversary
- Daniel Finn: The Contested Legacy of Derry’s Bloody Sunday
Authors and Editors
Members and Observers of transform! europe