The European Union is going through a long-lasting crisis, an existential crisis. All the peoples of Europe, whether or not they are members of the Union, suffer from austerity policies and terrible inequalities. Peace and climate are threatened.
We have had enough of this antisocial, authoritarian, greedy and selfish Europe. We do not accept that the only alternative would be competition between the populist, xenophobic and extreme right-wing nationalist forces separating European peoples, and the forces which propose a strengthening of the austeritarian neoliberal policies resulting from the treaties. This gear prepares or feeds an authoritarian trend in many countries of the Union, with the war of everybody against everybody as the only future.
This is too dangerous, especially after the election of Donald Trump. It is a huge waste when there are so many challenges for peace and the construction of a new social and ecological model for the development of humanity.
We are the ones who are looking for another path: that of building a Europe of social and ecological progress, a feminist and anti-racist Europe, a democratic, welcoming and peaceful Europe.
We know that we are many who share this desire, and that the peoples of Europe can change the course of history. We know that our gathering is urgent and awaited throughout Europe and beyond.
Only the unity of our forces will allow for change. It is time to build a common front, break the walls and open a wide debate to produce progressive solutions together. We must meet, debate – without taboo and without exclusivity – about the convergences, solidarities, common objectives to be found to reach this objective.
We propose to create an annual forum of progressive forces of Europe, a new space for long-term political cooperation, bringing together a very broad panel of left, green and progressive parties, of platforms and political movements, trade union and social organisations, NGOs, intellectuals and citizens movements from all over Europe. We want a useful Forum to coordinate the various initiatives that are taking place in Europe and to build all the possible joint actions.
Our proposal is that of a process, where each force is invited to co-develop at all stages, a process that seeks to expand every day.
Let’s start in Marseille, 10 and 11 November 2017, for the first edition of this forum! Join us now!
Signatories of the Call
|
Name |
Organisation / Party |
Country |
| ACERBO Maurizio | National Secretary of the Partito della Rifondazione Comunista | Italy |
| ALEXOUPOULOS Sotiris | Pireus Initiative for Support of refugees and immigrants | Greece |
| Alliance for Free Movement | United Kingdom | |
| ANAGNOSTOPOULOU Sia | Member of Parliament; Former Deputy Minister of Education, Research and Religious Affairs | Greece |
| ANDERSSON Li | President of the Left Alliance | Finland |
| Another Europe is Possible | United Kingdom | |
| APOSTOLOS Kalogiannis | Mayor of Larissa | Greece |
| ASSASSI Eliane | President of the CRC Group in the Senate | France |
| AUTAIN Clémentine | Spokesperson of Ensemble! | France |
| BADEA Marin | Vice-President of the Romanian Socialist Party | Romania |
| BAIER Walter | Political coordinator of transform! Europe | Austria |
| BALAS Guillaume | Member of the European Parliament S&D, Progressive Caucus | France |
| BALIBAR Etienne | Anniversary Chair Professor at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP) at Kingston University | France |
| BAUM Marc | Member of the Parliament Déi Lénk | Luxembourg |
| BENATOUIL Maxime | Co-Director transform! Europe, Espace Marx | France |
| BEN-OMAR Fatima-Ezzahra | Porte-Parole des Effronté-e-s (Association Féministe) | France |
| BENYIK Matyas | ATTAC | Hungary |
| BIRMPAS Dimitrios | Mayor of Egaleo, Athens – Attica Ex Board of the Central Union of Greek Municipalities | Greece |
| BOCCIA Maria Luisa | Centro per la Riforma dello Stato | Italy |
| BOLINI Raffaella | Associazione Ricreativa e Culturale Italiana ARCI | Italy |
| BOURNOUS Yannis | Member Political Secretariat of SYRIZA, Head of European & International Affairs | Greece |
| BRAUN Hugo | Attac | Germany |
| BRENNAN Brid | TNI – Transnational Institute | Netherlands |
| BUSTINDUY Pablo | Member of the Spanish Parliament, International Secretary for PODEMOS | Spain |
| CACCIA Giuseppe | Italy | |
| CARVALHO DA SILVA Manuel | Member of Centro de Estudos Sociais, former general secretary of CGTP, Confederation of trade unions | Portugal |
| CASTELLINA Luciana | Sinistra Italiana | Italy |
| CAVALLI Franco | Professor of Oncology and Coordinator of the Alternativo Forum, Bellinzona | Switzerland |
| CENTELLA Jose Luis | General Secretary of the Communist Party of Spain | Spain |
| Central Committee of the Communist Party Wallonie-Bruxelles | Belgium | |
| CHASANIDIS Petros | President, Labor Centre of Orestiada | Greece |
| CHASSAIGNE André | President of the GDR Group in the National Assembly | France |
| CHERKI Pascal | M1717 | France |
| COFFERATI Sergio | Member of the European Parliament S&D | Italy |
| COHEN-SÉAT Patrice | Président d’honneur d’Espaces-Marx | France |
| Convergenza Socialista | Italy | |
| CSISZÁR Tamás | Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Workers’ Party of Hungary 2006 | Hungary |
| CURRAN Frances | Executive member of the Scottish Socialist Party | United Kingdom |
| DAIBER Birgit | Activist Commons goods | Germany / Italy |
| DE SOUSA SANTOS Boaventura | Sociologist, , University Professor | Portugal |
| DE WITTE Line | President of the Parti du Travail de Belgique in Louvain, author of the book “TTIP et CETA pour débutants” | Belgium |
| DEARDEN Nick | Global Justice Now | United Kingdom |
| DEL RIO Pilar | President of Fundação José Saramago | Portugal |
| DHARRÉVILLE Pierre | Member of Parliament for Bouches du Rhône (PCF) | France |
| DI SISTO Monica | Fairwatch | Italy |
| DIDERICH Gary | Spokesperson for Déi Lénk | Luxembourg |
| DOUZINAS Konstantinos | Member of Parliament, Chairman of the Standing Committee on Defense and Foreign Affairs of the Hellenic Parliament | Greece |
| DOWLING Felicity | National Secretary of Left Unity | Great Britain |
| DROPPA György | SZAB – Organisers for the Left | Hungary |
| DUNPHY Richard | Senior Lecturer in Politics, School of Social Sciences, University of Dundee | United Kingdom |
| EVANS Trevor | Euromemo | Germany |
| FAIRWEATHER Stuart | Convener, Democratic Left Scotland | United Kingdom |
| FAZENDA Luís | Bloco de Esquerda | Portugal |
| FERRÉ Marga | President of FEC (Europe of Citizens Foundation) | Spain |
| FERRERO Paolo | Vice-Président of the Party of the European Left | Italy |
| FORENZA Eleonora | Member of the European Parliament GUE/NGL | Italy |
| FRANGAKIS Marica | Nikos Poulantzas Institute | Greece |
| FRATOIANNI Nicola | National Secretary of Sinistra Italiana | Italy |
| GALLEGO HERRERA Joan Carles | Unionist, Former General Secretary of Workers’ Commissions (CCOO) Catalonia | Spain |
| GARZÓN Alberto | Head of Izquierda Unida | Spain |
| GEORGE Susan | Attac Europe | |
| Greece Solidarity Campaign | United Kingdom | |
| Green Left | United Kingdom | |
| GUAMAN Adoracion | University of Valencia | Spain |
| GULLI Marianne | International responsible of the Red Party | Norway |
| GYSI Gregor | President of the European Left | Germany |
| HERRMANN Peter | Corvinus University / University of Eastern Finland | Italy |
| HILDEBRANDT Cornelia | Vice Director of the Institute for Critical Social Analysis of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation | Germany |
| HUDSON Kate | Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament | United Kingdom |
| IOAKIMIDIS Giorgos | Mayor of Agios Ioannis Rentis and Ex Board of the Central Union of Greek Municipalities | Greece |
| ION Iacov | Vice President of the Romanian Socialist Party | Romania |
| JOLY Eva | Member of the European Parliament Greens/EFA, Progressive Caucus |
France |
| KALYAKIN Sergey | Chairman of the Party “Fair World“ | Belarus |
| KANATLI Murat | General Secretary of YKP | Cyprus |
| KATOPODIS Grigoris | Mayor of Vironas Attica | Greece |
| KAVVADIA Anneta | Member of the Parliamentary Member of the Assembly of the Council of Europe | Greece |
| KIPPING Katja | Chairpersons of Die Linke | Germany |
| KOCH Francesca | Casa Internazionale delle Donne di Roma | Italy |
| KONSTANTINOU Kostakis | Frederick University Cyprus | Cyprus |
| KOUGEA Lena | Coordination Committee of Athens Social Pharmacy | Greece |
| KOURAKIS Tasos | Membre of the European Parliament, Vice President of the Hellenic Parliament | Greece |
| KOUVELIS Fotis | Head of the Unitary Movement of European Left | Greece |
| KUNEVA Kostadinka | Member of the European Parliament GUE/NGL | Greece |
| LAURENT Pierre | Vice-President of the Party of the European Left | France |
| LE HYARIC Patrick | Member of the European Parliament, GUE/NGL | France |
| LIBERAS Βabis | Member of EC of ADEDY | Greece |
| LIGUORI Guido | University della Calabria | Italy |
| MADDALENA Paolo | Vice-President emerito della Corte Costituzionale | Italy |
| MAKRAKIS George | Member of the Executive Committee ADEDY | Greece |
| MÁLEK Jiří | Society For European Dialogue | Czech republic |
| MARAZZI Christian | Economist and university professor | Switzerland |
| MARLIERE Philippe | Professor of French and European Politics SELCS Faculty of Arts & Humanities. | United Kingdom |
| MARSILI Lorenzo | Italy | |
| MARTIN Myriam | Spokesperson of Ensemble! | France |
| MARTINS Catarina | Coordinator of Bloco de Esquerda | Portugal |
| MATIAS Marisa | Member of the European Parliament GUE/NGL | Portugal |
| MAZIER Jacques | Université Paris-Nord (CEPN) Université Paris-13 | France |
| MELEGH Attila | Sociologist, University professor | Hungary |
| MENAPACE Lidia | Consiglio Nazionale dell’ANPI | Italy |
| MESEC Luka | Coordinator of LEVICA | Slovenia |
| MESSNER Mirko | Chair of KPÖ | Austria |
| MESTRUM Francine | Researcher, Global social justice | Belgium |
| MEZZADRA Sandro | Professor of Political Theory in Università degli Studi di Bologna, adjunct research fellow at Institute for Culture and Society of University of Western Sydney | Italy |
| MILEVA Margarita | Vice-President of the Party of the European Left | Bulgaria |
| MOLA Maite | Vice-President of the Party of the European Left | Spain |
| MONTEIRO Hugo | cul:tra | Portugal |
| MOREA Roberto | Transform | Italy |
| MORVA Judit | Le Monde Diplomatique | Hungary |
| MUSACCHIO Roberto | Altra Europa | Italy |
| MUSTAFA MEMET Mustafa | Member of Parliament of SYRIZA | Greece |
| NAVARRO Vicenç | Professor of Political Sciences and Public Policy at the University of Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona) | Spain |
| NOUCHAKIS Stavros | President of Panhellenic Federation of Medical Visitors & Pharmacists – Related Sector Professions (POIE-FSEK) | Greece |
| NUET Joan Josep | Coordinador de EUIA | Spain |
| OBADIA Alain | President of the Gabriel Péri Foundation | France |
| OMARJEE Younous | Member of the European Parliament, GUE/NGL | France |
| PACKALÉN Petra | Secretary General of the Communist Party of Finland | Finland |
| PALAZZOTTO Erasmo | Executive Board of Sinistra Italiana Responsible for International Relations | Italy |
| PALEOCHORITIS Dimitris | President of POTHA- PanHellenic Entertainment Federation | Greece |
| PANSY Sarah | Chair of the Young Greens | Austria |
| PANTELIS Takis | Vice President of POEDHN-Federation of Public Hospital Employees | Greece |
| PAPADIMOULIS Dimitrios | Vice-President of the European Parliament, Member of the European Parliament GUE/NGL and Head of SYRIZA Delegation | Greece |
| PATOMAKI Heikki | University of Helsinki | Finland |
| PELLISSIER Jean-François | Spokeperson of Ensemble! | France |
| PETRELLA Riccardo | Water Mouvement | Italy |
| PETROPOULOS Giorgos | member of EC of ADEDY-Confederation of Public Servants | Greece |
| PETROS Damianos | Headmaster, School of Avlona Juvenile Prison | Greece |
| PIANTA Mario | University of Urbino | Italy |
| PIERO Bernocchi | Spokesperson COBAS | Italy |
| PIETILAINEN Jukka | Left Forum Finland | Finland |
| PINSON Gavriel | President of the Labour Party of Switzerland (PST/POP) | Switzerland |
| PIRINSKI Georgi | Member of the Euopean Parliament S&D, Progressive Caucus | Bulgaria |
| PISARELLO Gerardo | Co-Coordinator of the International relation of Catalunya en Común | Spain |
| POULOU Yiota | Mayor of Livadia | Greece |
| Razem National Executive Board | Poland | |
| REVELLI Marco | Altra Europa | Italy |
| RIEXINGER Bernd | Chairpersons of Die Linke | Germany |
| RIGAS Panos | Secretary of the Central Committee of SYRIZA | Greece |
| RINALDINI Gianni | Ex National Secretary of the FIOM | Italy |
| RIZZUTI Domenico | Sinistra EuroMediterranea | Italy |
| RODANO Giulia | Altra Europa | Italy |
| ROGDAKI Αnna | Member of GC of ADEDY | Greece |
| ROTARU Constantin | President of the Romanian Socialist Party | Romania |
| SABOURIN Anne | Europe coordinator of the French Communist Party | France |
| SANTORO Manuel | National Secretary of Convergenza Socialista | Italy |
| SCHINAS-PAPADOPOULOS Jason | General Secratery of the Youth of SYRIZA | Greece |
| SCHIRDEWAN Martin | Director Europe Office Rosa Luxemburg Foundation | Belgium |
| SCHUHLER Conrad | ISW – Institute for Social, Ecological and Economic Studies | Germany |
| SEPPÄNEN Antti | Chairperson of PAND (Artists for Peace), dancer | Finland |
| SHEEHAN Helena | Dublin City University | Ireland |
| STANCIU Dumitru | Vice-President of the Romanian Socialist Party | Romania |
| STANCIU Lucia | Vice-President of the Romanian Socialist Party | Romania |
| STRICKNER Alexandra | Attac | Autriche |
| TAŞ Alper | President of ÖDP | Turkey |
| TAMÁS Gáspár M | Marxist philosopher and public intellectual | Hungary |
| THEMISTOCLES Amblas | President of Greek Federation of Transport Syndicates | Greece |
| THEOPHEFTATOU Aphrodite | MP, Secretary of Parliamentary group of SYRIZA | Greece |
| THOMA Carole | Spokesperson for Déi Lénk | Luxembourg |
| THOMAS Isabelle | Member of the European Parliament S&D, Progressive Caucus | France |
| TOPALIDOU Maria | Refugee Clinic | Greece |
| TORELLI Massimo | Altra Europa | Italy |
| TRASCIATTI Attila | Táncsics organisation | Hungary |
| URBÁN CRESPO Miguel | Member of the European Parliament, Europe Secretary for Podemos, GUE/NGL | Spain |
| URTASUN Ernest | Spokerperson of the Iniciativa per Catalunya Verds and Co-Coordinator of the International relation of Catalunya en Común | Spain |
| VÄISÄNEN Juha-Pekka | Chairperson of the Communist Party of Finland | Finland |
| VAJNAI Attila | Chairman of the Workers’ Party of Hungary 2006 | Hungary |
| VAN HEES Marco | Deputy of the Parti du Travail de Belgique (PTB-PVDA) in the Belgium Federal Parliament | Belgium |
| VAN KEIRSBILCK Felipe | Centrale nationale des employés CNE | Belgium |
| VASILIS Rizos | Coordinator Solidarity for All | Greece |
| Venezuela Solidarity Campaign | United Kingdom | |
| VERGIAT Marie-Christine | Member of the European Parliament, GUE/NGL | France |
| VERNHES Marie-Dominique | Attac | Germany |
| VIEU Marie-Pierre | Member of the European Parliament, Parti Communiste Français, GUE/NGL | France |
| VILLANUEVA Idoia | Member of the Spanish Senate, Member of PODEMOS Executive | Spain |
| VISENTINI Luca | General Secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) | Italy |
| VITA Vincenzo | ARS – Associazione Movimento Sinistra | Italy |
| WAGNER David | Member of Parliament Déi Lénk | Luxembourg |
| ZIEGLER Jean | politician, writer | Switzerland |
| ZIMMER Gabriele | President of the GUE/NGL Group in the European Parliament | Germany |
| ZOGRAFAKI Eleni | president of OLME, Federation of Secondary Education State School Teachers | Greece |