Programma dell’università estiva del Partito della sinistra europea e transform! Europe, che si terrà a Liubljana (Slovenia) dal 6 al 9 luglio (traduzione simultanea in inglese, francese e sloveno) –
6th of July 2023
14.00-14.30 – Opening / Welcome speeches
Walter Baier, President of the Party of the European Left
Danai Koltsida, transform! europe
Manon Aubry, Co-Chair of the Left in the European Parliament
Spokesperson from Levica (TBC)
14.30-16.00 – Plenary – “New World Order: lessons from Latin America and the Middle East for non-alignment”
Moderation: Inger Johansen, EL Vice-President and Coordinator of the EL Middle East Working Group (Denmark)
Speakers:
Mirthia Julia Brossard Oris, responsible of international relations of the Cuban Union of Young Communists (Cuba)
Jan Kavan, former President of the United Nation General Assembly and former minister of Foreign Affairs of Czech Republic (Czech Republic)
Salah Abdel Shafi, Ambassador of Palestine in Vienna (Palestine)
Conclusions: Ingar Solty, Senior researcher for Peace and Security Policy at the Institute for Social Analysis of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation – Berlin (Germany)
16.00-16.15 – Break
16.15-17.45 – Plenary – “Against the increasing costs of living: healthcare and housing are not commodities!”
Speakers:
KPOE Salzburg (TBC)
Simon Maljevac, Minister of Solidarity-based Future (covering healthcare and housing), Levica (Slovenia)
William Feys, Co-spokesperson of the Observatory of transparency in drug policies (France)
Piotr Ikonowicz, Chairman of the political party Social Justice Movement, MP (1993 – 2001), Journalist (Poland)
17.45-18.00 – Break
18.00-19.15 – Seminar/Workshops
Seminar: “What do digital revolution, robotisation and automation mean for the Left and the workers?”
Moderation: Valentina Skafar, Levica/European Left (Slovenia)
Speakers:
Sergio Bellucci, CGIL (TBC)
Barbara Gomes, Spokesperson of the PCF and expert on uberisation of the economy (France)
PTB (TBC)
ETUC (TBC)
Seminar: “Working until death? The fight to defend our pensions everywhere”
Moderation: Woman Trade unionist from Slovenia (TBC)
Speakers:
David Gobé, PCF/CGT President of the ITF Railway Workers’ Section (France)
José Soeiro, Member of Parliament and researcher in labour issues and social security, Bloco de
Esquerda (Portugal)
Simon de Beer, responsible of the National Secretariat of the PTB (Belgium)
Seminar: “Challenges of alliance building: the example of NUPES and SUMAR”
Moderation: Nessim Achouche, Project Manager from Rosa Luxembourg Foundation Brussels and Cornelia Hildebrandt Co-president of transform!europe
Speakers:
Authors of the study
Comments:
Manon Aubry, Co-Chair of The Left in the European Parliament/La France Insoumise (France)
Vincent Boulet, Vice-President of the EL/PCF (France)
19.30 – Dinner
21.00 – Concert: Darko Nikolovski rap concert Metelkova city
7th of July 2023
10.00-11.30 – Plenary – “Post-fascism and new fascists: the kidnapping of the EU by the far right”
Moderation: Eleonora Forenza, member of the EL Political Secretariat, Partito della Rifondazione Comunista (Italy)
Speakers:
Manon Aubry, Co-Chair of The Left in the European Parliament, La France Insoumise
Pawel Wargan, Progressive International
Pierre Balas, Independent researcher on digitalisation and democracy, author of the transform! study “The Far Right in the European Parliament”
Josip Jagic, Project Manager & Political Analyst, Rosa Luxembourg Foundation (Croatia)
Svetlana Slapšak (Serbia)
11.30-11.45 – Break
11.45-13.00 – Seminars/Workshops
Workshop/training about campaigning for 2024: make a topic “campaignable”- living wages
Katalin Gennburg, Berlin Housing CampaignsCampaings, Die Linke (Germany)
Anna Camposampiero, No Profit on the Pandemic, Member of the EL Executive Board for Rifondazione (Italy)
Campaigners from The Left in the EP (TBC)
Seminar on Culture
Olga Athaniti, Member of the EL Executive Board and Co-Coordinator of the Culture Network (Greece)
Asta Vrečko, Slovenian minister of culture (Slovenia)
13.00 – Lunch
14.30-16.00 – Plenary – “Peace is our victory: now and for the future, in Ukraine and everywhere!”
Moderation: Walter Baier, President of the Party of the European Left (Austria)
Speakers:
Volodymyr Ishchenko, research associate at the Institute of East European Studies, Freie Universität Berlin (Germany)
Tarja Cronberg, peace researcher, former Green MEP (Finland)
Heidi Meinzolt, (TBC)
Jan Kavan, former President of the United Nation General Assembly and former minister Czech Republic (Czech Republic)
16.00-16.30 – Break
16.30-18.00 – Plenary – “Militarisation and climate change: a neglected link”
Moderation: Didem Aydurmus, Co-coordinator of the EL Environment WG, Die Linke (Germany)
Speakers:
Amar Bellal, Responsible for PCF Ecology department (France)
Gavin Rae (TBC)
18.00-18.15 – Break
18.15-19.30 – Seminars/Workshops
EL Youth Network Assembly “Youth of Europe rise up with Cuba”
Moderation: Adrià Serrarols i Soldevila, member of the EL Youth Network (Spain)
Speakers:
Mirthia Julia Brossard Oris, responsible of international relations of the Cuban Union of Young Communists (Cuba)
Grettel Gomez González, Cuban Union of Young Communists (Cuba)
Debate with youth organizations attending the SU.
– Workshop/training about campaigning for 2024: preparation of the campaign example
Vladimir Simovic The Centre for the Politics of Emancipation (CPE) (Serbia)
Bojana tamindzija The Centre for the Politics of Emancipation (CPE)
Tina Tomsic Institute 8M, (Slovenia)
Marja Kodre Institute 8M, (Slovenia)
20.00 – Dinner
21.30-22.30 – Jazz Festival
8th of July 2023
10.00-11.30 – Plenary – “Intersectional approach for our battles: feminism, migration, LGBTQ+ and ageism”
Moderation: N’toko (Miha Blažič) about migration (Slovenia)
Speakers:
Tatjana Greif, Slovenian MP expert of LGBT+ issues, feminism and ageism (Slovenia)
Svetlana Slapšak, (TBC)
Ankica Čakardić – Social Reproduction, Croatia, Yearbook transform
Eleonora Forenza, member of the EL Political Secretariat, Partito della Rifondazione Comunista (Italy)
Danai Koltsida/Olga Athaniti (TBC)
11.30-11.45 – Break
11.45-13.00 – Seminars/Workshops
Workshop/training about campaigning for 2024: europeanising campaigns/ topics for the 2024EP election
Campaigners from The Left in the EP (TBC)
Federico Tomasone RLS – Brussels (Italy)
Fabian Figueiredo Bloco de Esquerda/EL (TBC)
Simon de Beer/PTB (Belgium)
Julia Casternier, PCF (France)
Seminar: “How ecological was Marx? Climate change and Marxism”
Moderation: Barbara Steiner, director of transform!europe (TBC)
Speakers:
Maurizio Acerbo, Chair of Partito della Rifondazione Comunista (TBC)
Geraldina Colloti (Italian writer, poet, philosopher and feminist, journalist and Marxist from Rome (Italy)
Manuela Kropp, Rosa LuxemburgLuxembourg Foundation (Germany)
13.00 – Lunch
14.30-15.45 – Seminars/Workshops
“100 Shades of the EU: Democracy and European Integration.”
Moderation: Dagmar Švendová (Czech Republic) and Tatiana Moutinho (Portugal),
Co-editors of the transform!europe study “100 Shades of the EU — Mapping the Political Economy of the EU Peripheries”
Speakers:
Veronika Sušová-Salminem, historian, Co-author of the study on 100 Shades of the EU, Editor of online portal časopis! argument (Czech Republic)
Pedro Giraldo-Chaves, Instituto Republica e democracia (Spain)
Cornelia Hildebrandt, Co-President of transform!europe (Germany)
Conclusions: Walter Baier, President of the Party of European Left (Austria)
16.00-17.00 – Conclusions: “EL priorities for the 2024 European Elections “
Speeches of:
Walter Baier, EL President of the EL (Austria)
Cornelia Hildebrandt, Co-president of transform!europe (Germany)
Spokespersion of Levica (TBC) (Slovenia)
Sira Rego, MEP The Left in the European Parliament/IU (TBC) (Spain)
17.00-21.30
Visit of the “Red Ljubljana” (in English)
22.00 – Closing party: Concert of Lara Jankovic (TBC) at the Metelkova City
9th of July 2023
9.00 – 10.00 – 11.00 Departures
