North-Atlantic Left Dialogue

In this text Mimmo Porcaro develops his presentation at the NALD seminar, Berlin, November 2012. It is an attempt at finding where we are situated in the development of party forms growing first from the Fordist phase of capitalist production, then from its neoliberal phase and, now, a possible party form suitable to the developing general social and economic crisis. More…

Here is William K. Tabb’s co-introduction to the first session – “Austerity Measures and Left Responses” – of the 2012 NALD Seminar.  More…

Here is William K. Tabb’s November 29, 2012 presentation at the NALD panel discussion “USA 2012: After the Elections” on the situation after the US presidential elections.  More…

Here is Jan Rehmann’s opening contribution to the 2012 NALD seminar.

More…

Hans Thie is a Scientific Advisor to Die LINKE’s Bundestag delegation.

Click here for Hans Thie’s presentation of die LINKE’s “Plan B” at the 2012 NALD seminar.

Hier die in „Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik“ 12.2012 leicht gekürzte deutsche Übersetzung des in „The Nation“ 28.11.2011 erschienenen Artikels

“Capitalism vs. The Climate”, The Nation, November 28, 2012

What If?
Daily Politics and Post-Capitalism

William K. Tabb

In this contribution Tabb addresses and brings into relation many other contributions made in NALD seminars and in written contributions found on this site. More…

This article is published in Socialist Register 49 (2013).

Click here to read the full article.

This article has been published in Socialist Register 49 (2013).

Click here for the full article.

Pease click here for Margit Mayer’s tribute to Neil Smith

Here are some thoughts by Bill Fletcher, Jr. on the paper by Mimmo Porcaro posted on this site. More…

The following is the discussion document prepared by Sean Sweeney for the global union roundtable “Energy Emergency – Energy Transition” October 10 – 12, New York City:

Cornell University Global Labor Institute and Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung New York Office: Resist, Reclaim and Restructure: Unions and the Struggle for Energy Democracy

Here is a link to the fundamental statement of the strategy:

http://rdwolff.com/content/manifesto

More information can be had at the “Democracy at Work” site:

http://www.democracyatwork.info/

There is also a video produced by “Democracy at Work”:

In this paper the two national co-chairs of Die LINKE, elected at the party’s June congress, lay out a strategy for combatting austerity, countering the narrative of the crisis being one of public debt with a proposal for a residential housing cooperative, new forms of communication and meetings, etc. More…

http://www.alternet.org/election-2012/2012-elections-have-little-do-obamas-record-which-why-we-are-voting-him

Here is a concrete proposal for banking-system reform from the Bundestag group of Die LINKE.

Hersel – Troost – LINKE – How a socialisation of the banks might look

Here is Rick Wolff’s article on the problems of big banks and the logic of their socialization:

Wolff – Big Finance Pathology Oct 1 2012 Guardian UK

In this paper, Mimmo Porcaro comes to grips with the theory and practice of the modern democratic movement-based party, principally centered around the successes and failures of the experience of Rifondazione Comunista in Italy, and the problem of how to make a party based on these principles at least as strong, in its thinking and practice, as the traditional communist parties. More…

Click here for a video of the December 1, 2011 panel with Leo Panitch, Stephanie Ross, Albert Scharenberg and Bill Fletcher, Jr.

In Memory of Hermann Scheer

This text has been developed within the ISM’s steering committee together with the active participation of other colleagues. Our aim is to advance the process of programmatic and strategic agreement, which is already under way in the social and political left as well as in critical scholarship and culture and which has recently gained new impetus from the turn in nuclear policy. In this, we are less concerned with a possibly exhaustive listing of the various single steps toward a social-ecological reconstruction. Rather, we would like to make clear that such a reconstruction can only be designed as a comprehensive social, cultural and political project, in the end as a project of another society – of a solidariy modernity. For the ongoing elaboration and carrying out of such a project, a broad alliance of diverse protagonists has to evolve. Through a discussion of the present text we would like to open up a first opportunity for such an alliance. The text itself is therefore conceived as an invitation to participation. More…

The RLF Policy Paper by Hans Thie – a participant in the December 2011 NALD seminar in Toronto – can be found on the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation’s site at:

http://www.rosalux.de/fileadmin/rls_uploads/pdfs/Standpunkte/policy_paper/Policy_Paper_3-2011.pdf

Michael Brie discusses the strengths and weaknesses of Erik Olin Wright’s new book.  Click here to read the review.

This brochure contains rich discussions of actually existing partial attempts to replace GDP with other economic measurements and of the struggles around this. Here are excerpts – click here to read them. The full brochure can be seen at

http://www.transform-network.net/uploads/media/transform__the_left_between-growth_and_degrowth.pdf

In this key paper for Die LINKE’s strategic discussion on growth, GDP and green capitalism, Dieter Klein addresses the question of alternatives to GDP as an economic measurement. In this context he sees green conversion within capitalism as a moment that makes one last phase of growth possible while the left pushes for a transition to non-growth.

(A PDF of the article can be accessed here.)

For article in Word: More…

With the crisis now in its fifth year, it’s plain that the rich and powerful have restructured society toward ever-greater inequality. Guardian, May 27, 2011

In this succinct piece Cornelia Hildebrandt captures the contradictions in Die LINKE’s considerable potential, the various double binds it finds itself in, due to its mixed reality as a Volkspartei in the East and largely protest party in the West, along with the paradoxical implications of the crisis for the party. The statistical data help in forming an idea of the party’s reality. More…