Next Left

Project

NEXT LEFT

The FEPS Next Left Research Programme has been founded in June 2009, with the goal to reflect upon the 2009 European Elections and prepare for the one to come. The programme quickly developed into a reference point for politicians, academics and experts in the field of the renewal of social democracy in Europe. With the support of the national foundations, and especially the Renner Institut as the partner in the project, it has been possible to realize a great deal of research, debates and publications across the EU and beyond.

This variety of activities has been executed through different groups within the FEPS Next Left Research Programme: the FEPS Next Left Focus Group, the FEPS Next Left Working Group on Eurodemocracy, the FEPS Young Academics Network, the FEPS Next Left Dialogue of Dialogues and the national round tables. The programme’s findings have been published within the FEPS Next Left Book Series, offering the PES, the S&D Group in the European Parliament and its sister parties an academic and analytical perspective on the current political state of the European Progressive movement. As a result of the increasing appreciation of the FEPS Next Left Research Programme, its position within the world of academia got strengthened, allowing the programme to grow and involve scholars and experts from different continents. The FEPS Next Left Research Programme is chaired by Dr. Alfred Gusenbauer. Within the FEPS Team it is coordinated by Dr. Ania Skrzypek, FEPS Senior Research Fellow.

Declaration: Next Left: creating a social democratic future

The main FEPS Next Left achievements are:

Next Left Focus Group

Next Left Working Group

Next Left National Roundtables

Next Left Academic Symposiums

Support to the renewal processes within the PES, S&D Group in the EP and sister parties

FEPS Next Left Research Programme, together with 3 respective FEPS Research Pillars, has been a reference point for the renewal processes within the sister organisations and parties. It contributed to those processed through, among others: fringe meetings and Council and Congresses, co-organized seminars, presentations at their respective events and written contributions for their respective publications, as also involvement in advisory gremials (including close cooperation with the PES Advisory Board on Fundamental Programme).

FEPS Next Left Publications

Among a great number of different publications (books, articles, essays, blogs etc.) the highlight publications of the FEPS Next Left Research Programme so far are:

FEPS Next Left Book Series 

• Next Left, New Social Deal 10 Strategic Proposals for the Progressives to become the Movement of the Future
• Vol.10: Delivering Empowered Welfare Societies (2016)
• Vol. 9: For a Connecting Progressive Agenda (2015)
• Vol. 8: Framing a New Narrative (2014)
• Vol. 7: In the Name of Political Union Europarties on the Rise (2013)
• Vol. 6: For a New Social Deal (2013)
• Vol. 5: Building New Communities (2012)
• Vol. 4: Progressive Values for the 21st Century (2011)
• Vol. 3: Towards a New Strategy (2011)
• Vol. 2: The Leaders’ Visions for Europe’s Future (2010)
• Vol. 1: Renewing Social Democracy. Contributions to a European-wide debate (2009)
  
  

FEPS Next Left Pamphlets

• Renaissance for Europe – 10 Provoking Thoughts., [in:] Renaissance for Europe – A Common Progressive Vision (2013) FEPS / Italiani Europei / FES / FJJ, Brussels / Rome / Berlin / Paris
• Winning for Real; The Next Left taking the Chance to Shape Europe for the 21^st century. 10 fundamental challenges (2012)
  
  

FEPS Next Left Desk Studies

• (S)election of the PES top candidate for the European Elections (2017)
• Politicising Europe: Transnational lists as a means of moving the debate from “if” to “which”. Article in The Progressive Post (2017)
• Progressive Politics in Fragmented Times. 10 Core Guidelines, FEPS 2015
• Progressive Values in 21st century (2012)
• A Comparative analyses of core values of PES member parties and the ideological evolution within PES (2011)
• Social democracy for youth (2010) 
• Models of (s)electing a top candidate (2010) 
• 10 observations on the European elections (2009)
• Next Left Discussion Paper – 10 suggestions for (2009)
  
  

FEPS Next Left Publications realised together with partners

• Nicht immer dieselbe alte »Erneuerung« [in:] Neue Gesellschaft/Frankfurter Hefte, 1/2 – 2018, with reprint as Shifting Grouds: Three demarcation lines for progressives, in: Neue Gesellschaft/Frankfurter Hefte
• European progressives must understand what Britain told them, and find a new way forward. Facing the unknown. Building a progressive response to Brexit with  Fabian Society (2017)
• Weil in uns die Hoffnungen gezetzt warden – Die europäischen Mitte-Links-Parteien und ihre Perspektiven zur Halbzeit der europäischen Legislaturperode SPW – Zeitschrift für sozialistische Politik und Wirtschaft (2017)
• European perspective: Solidarity. Future Left: Can the left respond to a changing society? with Fabian Society (2016)
• The national vote that is determining European history. Fabian Review / Fabian Essays (2016)
• Moving Towards Welfare Societies.Chapter in The Predistribution Agenda with Policy Network (2015)
• Half the Sky, Half the Erath, Half the Power. Celebrating 20 years of PES Women. With PES (2015)
• Back to Earth. Reconecting people and politics (2014)
• More Europe Vs. No Europe: Europarties and Euroscepticism in the 2014 European Elections with Italianieuropei (2014)
• Progressive Politics After the Crash, Governing from the Left (with Policy Network, TAURUS, 2013)
• Democratic Legitimacy and Political Leadership in the European Union. Towards the 2014 European Elections with Italianieuropei (2013)
• Europe, Our Common Future. Celebrating 20 years of PES - Party of the European Socialists (with PES, 2013)
• The Shape of Things to come (with Fabian Society, 2012)
• Progressive europäische Werte für das 21. Jahrhundert. Neue Gesellschaft / Frakfurter Hefte. Fredrich Ebert Stiftung Bonn (2012)
  
• Social democracy setting off towards the European elections - Renewal - a journal of social democracy (2012)
• Europe’s Left in the Crisis (with Fabian Society, 2011)
  
  

FEPS Queries 1, 3, 5, 8 and 9

• Democracy taking the Next Turn (2012/2013)
• The Next Mission of Cosmpolitan Social Democracy (together with Policy Network, 2012)
• Next Left: Social Progress in 21st century (together with Policy Network, 2011)
• What Comes Before, What Comes Next (commemorating T. Judit, 2010)
• Next Europe, Next Left (2010)
  
  

Events related

Towards a new strategy for social democracy: Launch Next Left Vol.III