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Con motivo del Día Internacional de la Mujer el 8 de marzo y organizado por transform! europe y la fundación polaca Naprzód, este webminario reúne a activistas feministas para discutir la lucha actual de las mujeres polacas y reflexionar sobre las victoriosas campañas a favor del derecho a decidir por un aborto accesible, gratuito y seguro
Las largas semanas de manifestaciones que comenzaron el año pasado mostraron la determinación de las mujeres polacas a luchar por su derecho a decidir sobre cuestiones relativas a sus propios cuerpos. También desvelaron la arrogancia de la élite gobernante hacia los manifestantes; y cómo el gobierno está utilizando las instituciones estatales "reformadas" del país para sus propios fines autoritarios. No es la primera vez que las mujeres en Polonia han sido víctimas de los poderes conservadores. En 1993 se adoptó el llamado compromiso del aborto, que de hecho era una ley restrictiva contra el aborto. La ley solo permitía el aborto en algunos casos excepcionales. Desde entonces, las mujeres en Polonia han pedido repetidamente la liberalización de las regulaciones existentes. El "compromiso del aborto" bloqueó cualquier intento de liberalización de la ley del aborto, incluso cuando los partidos de centro- izquierda gobiernan. El año pasado, varios políticos de extrema derecha (del partido gobernante y del partido opositor Confederación, de extrema derecha) afirmaron que las excepciones en la ley que permitían la interrupción del embarazo eran inconstitucionales. A finales de año, el Tribunal Constitucional, bajo el control del partido gobernante, declaró inconstitucional la norma vigente, lo que en la práctica ha llevado a una prohibición total del aborto. La situación actual ha estado indudablemente influida por la Iglesia católica y por su posición en la vida social y política de Polonia. Sin embargo, mirando la lucha victoriosa de las mujeres en Irlanda y Argentina, donde la Iglesia también era dominante, la lucha por un aborto accesible, gratuito y seguro también se puede ganar en Polonia.
Moderadora
Małgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat, periodista, adjunta al director jefe de strajk.eu, Polonia
Ponentes
Agata Czarnacka, filósofa política, escritora y activista, Polonia
Laura Salomé, activista de la Campaña Nacional por el Derecho al Aborto Legal, Seguro y Libre, Argentina
Ailbhe Smyth, tescritora y activista, líder de la campaña Juntos por YES, Irlanda
Presentación del cortometraje We've had enough! youtube.com/watch?v=yw3A_ULx_xQ
Recomendamos:
"Chicas malas y úteros desobedientes", seminario web sobre el control político y social del cuerpo de las mujeres, 18 de febrero youtube.com/watch?v=esfkjUB8KR4
Agnieszka Mrozik : "Para recuperar el derecho a decidir por nosotros mismos" . Entrevista con Ewa Dąbrowska-Szulc , presidenta de la Asociación Pro Femina (Polonia) transform-network.net/es/blog/article/to-regain-the-right-to-decide-for-ourselves/?tx_news_pi1%5Bfocus%5D=&cHash=24054fe7219852f67ebe9dadef043869 (en inglés)
El Partido de la Izquierda Europea apoya el derecho al aborto de las mujeres polacas (1.2.2021) european-left.org/the-el-supports-abortion-rights-for-polish-women
Con motivo del Día Internacional de la Mujer el 8 de marzo y organizado por transform! europe y la fundación polaca Naprzód, este webminario reúne a activistas feministas para discutir la lucha actual de las mujeres polacas y reflexionar sobre las victoriosas campañas a favor del derecho a decidir por un aborto accesible, gratuito y seguro
Las largas semanas de manifestaciones que comenzaron el año pasado mostraron la determinación de las mujeres polacas a luchar por su derecho a decidir sobre cuestiones relativas a sus propios cuerpos. También desvelaron la arrogancia de la élite gobernante hacia los manifestantes; y cómo el gobierno está utilizando las instituciones estatales "reformadas" del país para sus propios fines autoritarios. No es la primera vez que las mujeres en Polonia han sido víctimas de los poderes conservadores. En 1993 se adoptó el llamado compromiso del aborto, que de hecho era una ley restrictiva contra el aborto. La ley solo permitía el aborto en algunos casos excepcionales. Desde entonces, las mujeres en Polonia han pedido repetidamente la liberalización de las regulaciones existentes. El "compromiso del aborto" bloqueó cualquier intento de liberalización de la ley del aborto, incluso cuando los partidos de centro- izquierda gobiernan. El año pasado, varios políticos de extrema derecha (del partido gobernante y del partido opositor Confederación, de extrema derecha) afirmaron que las excepciones en la ley que permitían la interrupción del embarazo eran inconstitucionales. A finales de año, el Tribunal Constitucional, bajo el control del partido gobernante, declaró inconstitucional la norma vigente, lo que en la práctica ha llevado a una prohibición total del aborto. La situación actual ha estado indudablemente influida por la Iglesia católica y por su posición en la vida social y política de Polonia. Sin embargo, mirando la lucha victoriosa de las mujeres en Irlanda y Argentina, donde la Iglesia también era dominante, la lucha por un aborto accesible, gratuito y seguro también se puede ganar en Polonia.
Moderadora
Małgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat, periodista, adjunta al director jefe de strajk.eu, Polonia
Ponentes
Agata Czarnacka, filósofa política, escritora y activista, Polonia
Laura Salomé, activista de la Campaña Nacional por el Derecho al Aborto Legal, Seguro y Libre, Argentina
Ailbhe Smyth, tescritora y activista, líder de la campaña Juntos por YES, Irlanda
Presentación del cortometraje We've had enough! youtube.com/watch?v=yw3A_ULx_xQ
Recomendamos:
"Chicas malas y úteros desobedientes", seminario web sobre el control político y social del cuerpo de las mujeres, 18 de febrero youtube.com/watch?v=esfkjUB8KR4
Agnieszka Mrozik : "Para recuperar el derecho a decidir por nosotros mismos" . Entrevista con Ewa Dąbrowska-Szulc , presidenta de la Asociación Pro Femina (Polonia) transform-network.net/es/blog/article/to-regain-the-right-to-decide-for-ourselves/?tx_news_pi1%5Bfocus%5D=&cHash=24054fe7219852f67ebe9dadef043869 (en inglés)
El Partido de la Izquierda Europea apoya el derecho al aborto de las mujeres polacas (1.2.2021) european-left.org/the-el-supports-abortion-rights-for-polish-women

![Engelbert Stockhammer: Woytinsky, Hilferding and the Fiscal Orthodoxy of Interwar Social Democracy
Austrian School and Austro-Marxism Panel of the transform! Web-Conference on Socialism in Central and Eastern Europe and Austro-Marxism.
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Engelbert Stockhammer is Professor of Economics at Kingston University. His research areas include macroeconomics, financial systems, and political economy. He is research associate at the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, member of the coordination committee of the “Research Network Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies” (FMM), and a co-organiser of the summer schools of the FMM. He has published widely in academic journals on the determinants of unemployment, on distribution-led demand regimes, and on financialization. He is author of the book “The rise of unemployment in Europe” (2004) and is co-editor of “Macroeconomic Policies on Shaky Foundations - Whither Mainstream Economics?” (2009), “Heterodoxe Ökonomie” ([in German] 2009), and “A Modern Guide to Keynesian Economics and Economic Policies” (Edward Elgar).
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Austro-Marxism is a corpus of the Marxist theory developed by the intellectuals closely connected to the multinational Social Democratic Workers Party of Austria. Labeled as the little International, in the last decades of the 19th century, it provided cultural and intellectual incubation space for the socialist movements in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and its successor states.
After the breakup of the Empire, Austro-Marxism inspired the practice of the Social democratic Workers Party of Austria, a mass party, which aimed at creating a socialist society by democratic mean. It became famous for its achievements in the municipality of Red Vienna. It distanced itself from both Marxist orthodoxy and Bolshevism, and later also, from the Third International dogmatism. Their most outstanding representative Otto Bauer clarified their position in the small book entitled Bolshevism or Social Democracy, as did Max Adler in his booklet Political and Social Democracy, where he positions himself close to Rosa Luxemburgs writings.
In the successor states, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland and Yugoslavia, independent socialist, social democratic and later Communist parties emerged, which however were still influenced by their common theoretical heritage. The cold war epoch contributed to a bipolar reception of Marxism as a Soviet orthodoxy versus a Western Marxism, referring to a great extent to Antonio Gramsci. The Central European version of Marxism fell into oblivion, especially after the demise of the so-called realized socialism.
In an editorial, written in 1926, for the Arbeiterzeitung, the newspaper of the Social Democratic Party, Otto Bauer gave his readers a short introduction to Austro-Marxism:
In the second half of the 19th century, a group of young Austrian comrades working in academia started to go by the name Austro-Marxists, Max Adler, Karl Renner, Rudolf Hilferding, Gustav Eckstein, Otto Bauer, Friedrich Adler, and a few others.
In these short lines, he mentions only men. However, remarkable women shaped the theoretical corpus of Austro-Marxism and contributed significantly to its intellectual sharpness and complexity. The works of Käthe Leichter, Therese Schlesinger, Adelheid Popp, Marie Jahoda, Hélène Bauer are still little known to an international academic audience.
Austro-Marxists were confronted with a wide array of challenges throughout the changing conjunctures of their time - like the national question within a multi-ethnic Empire or the problems concerning the states role in the economy following the economic turmoil of the late twenties. They had to learn to apply the Marxist interpretation of history to complicated phenomena where a superficial application of Marxist methods was not permissible.
Austro-Marxism was internationalist from the outset. It constituted the common root and provided a common language to the Marxist tradition in Central and, to some extent, in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. Inspired also by Kant and Mach, Austro-Marxism inspired others like Hans Kelsen, founder of the Pure Theory of Law, Alfred Adler, and Sigmund Freud.
Being hosted at the Austrian Universities, it contended with the Austrian School of Economics and its most remarkable theoreticians: Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich von Hayek. Their theories saw a glorious come-back to prominence during the neoliberal revolution of the 1980s. One would not go too far to say that Austrian School theories still build the backbone of global Neoliberalism. The debates between these two schools of thought during the twenties and the early thirties of the 20th-century concern issues highly relevant today.
See the programme here https://www.transform-network.net/calendar/event/socialism-in-central-and-eastern-europe-and-austro-marxism/ Engelbert Stockhammer: Woytinsky, Hilferding and the Fiscal Orthodoxy of Interwar Social Democracy](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/EgBGqJB_ZyI/mqdefault.jpg)







![Fighting the Far Right in the US: news from the frontline (ENG webinar)
[The session is in English. Yet, at two moments in the video the French interpretation is turned on for few minites. Sorry for the inconvenience]
transform! europe is a network of 39 European organisations from 23 countries, active in the field of political education and critical scientific analysis, and is the recognised political foundation corresponding to the Party of the European Left (EL).
For years transform! europe have been working for years on researching, monitoring, analysing and evaluating the course of the far right and/or the alt-right. In this webinar we bring together USA based political actors to dive deep into the phenomenon of Trumpism. Its time to avoid simplistic and superficial analyses and face all the surprising and contradicorty elements of this political paradigm in the Western -and not only- world.
Speakers:
- Kristian Hernandez
Member of Demoratic Socialists of Americas National
Political Committee
- Matthew N. Lyons
Author of Insurgent Supremacists:
The U.S. Far Right’s Challenge to State and Empire
- Kazembe Balagun
Project manager at Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and BLM activist
Moderation : Marga Ferré, co-President of transform! europe
Defeating Trump was only the beginning. The struggle against the Far-right remains an urgent necessity. Despite the recent elections, American political landscape is not free of “Trumpism”.
The character retains the support of tens of millions of fervent and dedicated supporters, but also of many neo-liberal and conservative organizations, as well as several media outlets, such as Fox News or Breitbart News. Moreover, the ingredients that made Trumps success in 2016 possible are still there: hostility to immigrants, racial animosity, the despise of the educated elite towards the working classes, and the now widespread feeling that globalization has served the interests of multinationals and the upper classes to the detriment of the majority.
“Trumpism” is a complicated political ideology. It is a blend of mainstream and far right forces and politics, of elitism and populism, insider and outsider, creating a hybrid that challenges democracies in fundamental ways. As progressive forces, we have to revisit our conceptualizations and our classifications to understand it and defeat it.
From the stories of the movements which resisted Trump, as told by those on the front lines, this webinar will draw the lines of this “new” type of Far-right and how it shakes the US political order.
Their struggles and analysis will also be an opportunity to take some broader conclusions that can feed European strategies against Far-right.
The webinar took place on April 10th, 2021 Fighting the Far Right in the US: news from the frontline (ENG webinar)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/HFGG34kPQN4/mqdefault.jpg)
