Academic Lecture: The Possibilities of Left Government in Europe

It is our great pleasure to host the lecture ‘The Possibilities of Left Government in Europe’ by Dr. Panagiotis Sotiris, from the Department of Sociology of the University of the Aegean in Mytilene.

Is it possible to have a left government in Europe, today or is any attempt towards it going to fail: will political parties capitulate and end up implementing neoliberal policies? How is it possible to actually initiate a process of profound social transformation in an anticapitalist direction? Is it possible to combine government with forms of counter-power or even dual power from below? Is it possible to resist the systemic violence induced by capitalist globalisation and financial, monetary and institutional configurations such as those of the Eurozone? What role can political organisations play in such a perspective? These are some of the crucial open strategic questions that the Left is facing today and which need to be discussed…