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Lessons in Organising from Across the Left

Daniel Sestrajcic, Ada Regelmann & Susanne Lang
We are excited to share the first-ever Organize! reader, launched during the Organize! Movement Meetup in Malmö on 15–17 May 2026, organised by the Brussels Office of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung together with the Clara Foundation and the Zetkin Foundation. This marks the beginning of what will become an annual publication dedicated to organising, strategy,... Read More "Lessons in Organising from Across the Left"

Lessons in Organising from Across the Left

Daniel Sestrajcic, Ada Regelmann & Susanne Lang
We are excited to share the first-ever Organize! reader, launched during the Organize! Movement Meetup in Malmö on 15–17 May 2026, organised by the Brussels Office of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung together with the Clara Foundation and the Zetkin Foundation. This marks the beginning of what will become an annual publication dedicated to organising, strategy,... Read More "Lessons in Organising from Across the Left"
The use of digital tools for organising is widespread across the international Left, but often fails to realize its full potential. Capacity limits, a lack of strategy, and conflicting perspectives on platform ownership pose significant practical constraints. Grounded in original qualitative survey research, this report examines how left... Read More "Organising, Technology, and Developing Collective Practice"
The European steel industry is once again in crisis. A sector that currently supports around 300,000 direct and between 2.3 and 2.5 million indirect jobs has been increasingly seeing steel companies announce closures, mass layoffs and capacity cuts. These developments accelerate an existing trend: since 2008, the European... Read More "Reclaiming Steel: A Public Path for Europe’s Green Industrial Strategy"
For a long time, the European Union has presented itself as a pluralistic, rights-based, open social and political space which is intrinsically oriented towards the expansion of freedoms: this is what the “European way of life” should mean. The EU has also been labelled as a “regulatory power” being able to promote rights on a global scale: in 2012,... Read More "Shrinking Civic Space in the European Union"
The idea of “nature” or “biodiversity” credits is gaining traction as a proposed solution to the growing biodiversity crisis. These credits should certify measurable biodiversity gains, such as habitat restoration or species protection, and make them available for purchase by companies, investors or governments. Advocates,... Read More "Selling Nature: The EU’s Role in Creating Markets For Biodiversity"
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Rosa Luxemburg vécut la naissance du mouvement sioniste et fut une adversaire résolue de toute forme de sionisme. Elle pensait que le sionisme était une tentative ridicule tendant à faire diversion pour détourner les opprimés et exploités de leur combat contre les exploitants et exploiteurs. Rosa Luxemburg... Read More "Rosa Luxemburg – Sur la révolution, le parti et la fin du capitalisme: textes choisis"
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A new study comparing Germany to Estonia, Spain, and Finland Germany’s education policy has faced scrutiny ever since the results of the very first PISA survey were released in 2000. The report revealed that academic success in Germany fell below the OECD average and was more strongly contingent upon a student’s socio-economic and family background... Read More "European Education between Justice and Selectivity"
In the last four decades, we have experienced secular stagnation, priva[1]tisations, cuts in public investments and employment, and a rise in financialisation, financial profits, market concentration, profit share in Gross Domestic Product (GDP), unemployment, and inequality at the global level. This neoliberal era is marked by the... Read More "Financialisation, Wage Inequality and Market Concentration"
The right to mobility must be guaranteed for all people, because mobility means social participation. Getting to work, meeting friends, going to a medical appointment, taking children to nursery, visiting a mother in need of care – all of these must be affordable, reliable, climate-friendly and stress-free.... Read More "Mobility for Everyone. How do others do it? What can we learn from their experience?"
Amidst a severe energy and cost-of-living crisis, Mapping a Public Pathway for Europe’s Energy Transition delivers a compelling critique of Europe’s failing energy system. This comprehensive study exposes how, despite public commitments to reform, the EU’s continued reliance on a liberalized, profit-driven energy market is driving up prices... Read More "Mapping a Public Pathway for Europe’s Energy Transition"

A Europe of Capital

Kenneth Haar
30,000 lobbyists…and counting. The sheer number of corporate lobbyists that influence EU policy-making, and the financial firepower available to them, constitute a challenge to democracy, social rights, peace and the planet. In this book, lobbying researcher and campaigner Kenneth Haar explores how corporate representatives have shaped the institutional foundations of the EU. He... Read More "A Europe of Capital"
According to its presentation of itself, the European Union (EU) is based on principles and values such as freedom, democracy, equality, and the rule of law, promoting peace and stability.1 Against this background, the huge inequalities, high poverty rates, and multiple cases of precarious living across and within the Member States (MS) are... Read More "The Impact of EU Policies on Housing and Urban Development"

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