Cento anni dopo l’inizio della prima guerra mondiale e 70 anni dopo la fine della seconda guerra mondiale , l’Europa è a un bivio . Se le attuali politiche neoliberiste e autoritarie non saranno invertite una catastrofe attende l’Europa e il mondo: un ulteriore declino della democrazia , aumento della povertà e delle disuguaglianza, la distruzione dell’ambiente, l’aumento inesorabile delle destre e delle forze fasciste estreme che crescono nel terreno della disperazione provocata dalla disoccupazione e dalle privazioni. L’Unione europea deve ritrovare i suoi principi originali di pace, democrazia e giustizia sociale. Più in generale l’Europa ha bisogno e merita un nuovo accordo che pone su nuove basi i principi di libertà, uguaglianza e solidarietà recentemente traditi da liberali e socialdemocratici.

La candidatura di Alexis Tsipras , presidente di Syriza per la presidenza della Commissione europea esercita un forte simbolismo. La Grecia è stata la cavia di un enorme esperimento neoliberista che ha portato ad una crisi umanitaria ben documentata. La nomina di Tsipras come il candidato del partito della Sinistra Europea offre un raggio di speranza che il neoliberismo e l’autoritarismo può essere fermato e invertito.

Etienne Balibar, Distinguished Professor, Comparative Literature School of Humanities University of California, Irvine
Costas Douzinas, Professor of Law, Pro-Vice Master for International Links and Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities
Chantal Mouffe, Professor of Political Theory at the University of Westminster
Drucilla Cornell, Professor of law, women’s studies and political science at Rutgers University
Tariq Ali, Writer, journalist, and filmmaker. Member of the editorial committee of the New Left Review and Sin Permiso, and contributor to The Guardian, CounterPunch, and the London Review of Books
Lynne Segal, Anniversary Professor of Psychology and Gender Studies at Birkbeck College, London
Slavoj Zizek, Senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and visiting professor at a number of American Universities (Columbia, Princeton, New School for Social Research, New York University, University of Michigan)
Hilary Wainwright, Co-editor of Red Pepper and research director of the New Politics Project of the Transnational Institute, Amsterdam
Athena Athanasiou, Professor, Department of Social Anthropology at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, in Athens, Greece
Jacqueline Rose, Professor of English at Queen Mary, University of London
Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley & Hannah Arendt Professor of Philosophy at the European Graduate School
Joanna Bourke, Professor of History in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck College
Wendy Brown, Senior Invited Fellow of the Center for Humanities at Cornell University; visiting professor at Columbia University
Jodi Dean, Professor of Political and Media Theory in Geneva, New York
Doreen Massey, Professor Emeritus, Geography, The Open University UK
Sandro Mezzadra, Associate Professor of Political Theory at the University of Bologna
Bruce Robbins, Old Dominion Foundation Professor of the Humanities, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Leo Panitch, Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science at York University
Adolphe Reed, Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Doug Henwood, Journalist, economic analyst, and financial trader who writes frequently about economic affairs for the Left Business Observer
Johann Kresnik, Austrian dancer, choreographer and director
Martijn Konings, Lecturer in the Department of Political Economy, University of Sydney
Frances Fox Piven, Professor of Political Science and Sociology at The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Enzo Traver, Professor of Political Science at the University of Picardie-Jules Verne, Amiens, and visiting lecturer at the Free University of Berlin