The Challenges of the Left in the Eurozone

18 February 2017 by Eric Toussaint , Costas Lapavitsas , Stathis Kouvelakis , Olivier Besancenot , Zoe Konstantopoulou , Miguel Urbán Crespo , Marina Albiol , Teresa Rodríguez , Rommy Arce , Angela Klein

This important text, signed by more than 70 european personnalities, is available here.

Below is the list of signatures.

Signatures :

AUSTRIA

Christian Zeller, professor of economic geography, University of Salzburg

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

Tijana Okic, philosopher

BELGIUM

Olivier Bonfond, economist, member of the Greek Truth Committee on Public Debt

Mauro Gasparini, LCR/SAP

Jean-Claude Deroubaix, sociologist at the University of Mons

Corinne Gobin, politologist at the Free University Brussels (ULB)

Herman Michiel, publisher of the Ander Europa periodical

Christine Pagnoulle, honorary professor at the University of Liège, president of ATTAC-Liège

Éric Toussaint, spokesperson of the CADTM International, scientific coordinator of the Greek Truth Committee on Public Debt

CYPRUS

Stavros Tombazos, economist, university professor, member of the Greek Truth Committee on Public Debt

DENMARK

Soren Sondergaard, member of parliament (MP), former member of European parliament (MEP)

FRANCE

Olivier Besancenot, spokesperson of the NPA (Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste)

Jeanne Chevalier, Parti de Gauche (subscribes to the 10 proposals but not to the introduction)

Eric Coquerel, political coordinator of Parti de Gauche (subscribes to the 10 proposals but not to the introduction)

Pierre Cours-Salies, professor of sociology, University of Paris 8, Ensemble!

Léon Crémieux, NPA

Alexis Cukier, Ensemble!, EReNSEP

Penelope Duggan, editor of International Viewpoint

Pascal Franchet, president of CADTM France

Pierre Khalfa, co-president of Fondation Copernic

Djordje Kuzmanovic, Parti de Gauche (subscribes to the 10 proposals but not to the introduction)

Jan Malewski, editor of the review Inprecor

Myriam Martin, spokesperson of Ensemble!

Corinne Morel Darleux, Parti de Gauche (subscribes to the 10 proposals but not to the introduction)

Jean-François Pellissier, spokesperson of Ensemble!

Christine Poupin, spokesperson of NPA

Catherine Samary, economist, member of ATTAC France

Patrick Saurin, unionist (SUD), member of CADTM, member of the Greek Truth Committee on Public Debt

GERMANY

Angela Klein, SoZ periodical

GREECE

Tassos Anastassiadis, sociologist and journalist (Antarsya)

Aris Chatzistefanou, director of Debtocracy and Catastroika documentaries

Nikos Chountis, MEP, Popular Unity, former deputy minister in the first Tsipras government

Zoe Konstantopoulou, former president of the Greek parliament, founder of the political movement Plefsi Eleftherias, president of the Greek Truth Committee on Public Debt (subscribes to the 10 proposals but not to the introduction)

Stathis Kouvelakis, King’s College London, Popular Unity

Costas Lapavitsas, economist, SOAS University of London, EReNSEP

Spyros Marchetos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, member of Antarsya and of the Greek Truth Committee on Public Debt

Yorgos Mitralias, Greeks for Bernie’s Mass Movement, CADTM Greece, member of the Greek Truth Committee on Public Debt

Antonis Ntavanelos, RedNetwork, Popular Unity

Leonidas Vatikiotis, Periodista (Antarsya), member of the Greek Truth Committee on Public Debt

HUNGARY

Judit Morva, economist, editor of the BALMIX periodical

ITALY

Gigi Malabarba, worker in the self-managed RiMaflow, Fuorimercato, former senator, Communia Network

Checchino Antonini, editor of L’Anticapitalista

LUXEMBOURG

Justin Turpel, former MP, déi Lénk – la Gauche

David Wagner, MP, déi Lénk – la Gauche

NETHERLANDS

Willem Bosch, Another Europe

POLAND

Zbigniew Marcin Kowalewski, journalist

Dariusz Zalega, journalist

PORTUGAL

Francisco Louça, economist, Bloco de Esquera, former MP. Puts forward some hesitations on a few technical aspects regarding the 10 proposals

Alda Sousa, University of Porto, former MEP, Bloco de Esquerda

Rui Viana Pereira, sound designer, member of CADPP

SERBIA

Andreja Zivkovic, researcher

SLOVENIA

Maja Breznik, researcher

Rastko Močnik, sociologist, university professor

SPAIN

Daniel Albarracín, economist and sociologist, Podemos, member of the Greek Truth Committee on Public Debt

Marina Albiol, MEP, Izquierda Unida, spokesperson of Izquierda Plural’s delegation in the European parliament

Yago Álvarez, activist, member of the citizen debt audit platform (PACD)

Josep Maria Antentas, professor of sociology, Autonomous University of Barcelona

Rommy Arce, member of the city council of Madrid, member of the coalition Ahora Madrid, Podemos

Raúl Camargo, political secretary of Podemos in the Community of Madrid, MP of the Community of Madrid, Anticapitalistas

Sergi Cutillas, economist (Ekona), member of the promoting group for the new Catalan political movement Un País En Comú, member of the Greek Truth Committee on Public Debt

Jérôme Duval, member of CADTM, member of PACD

Manolo Gari, economist, eco-socialist activist, Anticapitalistas, Podemos

Fátima Martín, journalist, member of CADTM, member of PACD

Mikel Noval, member of the leadership of the trade union ELA Emergency Liquidity Assistance
ELA Emergency funds loaned to the private banks by the Eurozone central banks. (basque country)

Jaime Pastor, editor Viento Sur

Teresa Rodríguez, MP of Andalusia, former MEP, spokesperson of Podemos Andalusia.

Carlos Sanchez Mato, member of the city council of Madrid in charge of finances, responsable of the Economic Policy Commission of United Left (Izquierda Unida)

Miguel Urbán, MEP, Podemos

SWITZERLAND

Jean Batou, MP of the Grand Council of Geneva, professor, University of Lausanne

UNITED KINGDOM

Susan Pashkoff, Left Unity, Economic Policy Commission

Alan Thornett, Socialist Resistance in Britain

Author

Eric Toussaint

is a historian and political scientist who completed his Ph.D. at the universities of Paris VIII and Liège, is the spokesperson of the CADTM International, and sits on the Scientific Council of ATTAC France.
He is the author of Debt System (Haymarket books, Chicago, 2019), Bankocracy (2015); The Life and Crimes of an Exemplary Man (2014); Glance in the Rear View Mirror. Neoliberal Ideology From its Origins to the Present, Haymarket books, Chicago, 2012 (see here), etc.
See his bibliography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89ric_Toussaint
He co-authored World debt figures 2015 with Pierre Gottiniaux, Daniel Munevar and Antonio Sanabria (2015); and with Damien Millet Debt, the IMF, and the World Bank: Sixty Questions, Sixty Answers, Monthly Review Books, New York, 2010. He was the scientific coordinator of the Greek Truth Commission on Public Debt from April 2015 to November 2015.

Author

Costas Lapavitsas

is a member of Popular Unity, Professor of Economics at SOAS and former member of the Greek Parliament.

Author

Stathis Kouvelakis

teaches political theory at King’s College London. He formerly served on the central committee of Syriza and is now a member of Popular Unity.

Author

Olivier Besancenot

Author

Zoe Konstantopoulou

Greek human rights lawyer and politician of the Coalition of the Radical Left (Syriza). President of the Greek Parliament from February to October 2015, she launched in April 2015, an audit of the Greek public debt with the Commission for the truth on the public debt.

Author

Miguel Urbán Crespo

Author

Marina Albiol

eurodiputada, Izquierda Plural

Author

Teresa Rodríguez

diputada de Podemos por Andalucía

Author

Rommy Arce

Author

Angela Klein

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