Corona

For the coming weeks, RLS Brussels Office will publish clips from colleagues, comrades, and friends from Europe and beyond giving personal impressions of the crisis, the measures, living and coping. Vladimir Simović, Activist and Sociologist and at Centre for the Politics of Emancipation (CPE) from Belgrade, talks about the confinement in Serbia.
For the coming weeks, RLS Brussels Office will publish clips from colleagues, comrades, and friends from Europe and beyond giving personal impressions of the crisis, the measures, living and coping. Today, Rainer Hackauf, Bureau für Selbstorganisierung & Salon Bildung, reports about the measures taken in Austria and reflects the criticisms of the government.
For the coming weeks, RLS Brussels Office will publish clips from colleagues, comrades, and friends from Europe and beyond giving personal impressions of the crisis, the measures, living and coping. Guilherme Boulos, Coordinator of the Homeless Workers' Movement and of Frente Povo Sem Medo shares his personal impressions from Brazil. Boulos was a candidate for President of Brazil for Partido Socialismo e Liberdade (PSOL) in 2018.​
For the coming weeks, RLS Brussels Office will publish clips from colleagues, comrades, and friends from Europe and beyond giving personal impressions of the crisis, the measures, living and coping. Marga Ferré, President of FEC and Member of the United Left Board, reports from Madrid, the hotspot for coronavirus in Spain.
For the coming weeks, RLS Brussels Office will publish clips from colleagues, comrades, and friends from Europe and beyond giving personal impressions of the crisis, the measures, living and coping. Melanie Stitz, Regional Office Director, North Rhine-Westphalia, covers a variety of topics related to the current crisis.
For the coming weeks, RLS Brussels Office will publish clips from colleagues, comrades, and friends from Europe and beyond giving personal impressions of the crisis, the measures, living and coping. Vladimir, Postman and activist at Potere al Popolo gives us first-hand information on the situation in Italy.
For the coming weeks, RLS Brussels Office will publish clips from colleagues, comrades, and friends from Europe and beyond giving personal impressions of the crisis, the measures, living and coping. Today Ana Vračar from the BRID (Baza za radničku inicijativu i demokratizaciju), OWID (Organisation for Workers Initiative and Democratisation) reports from Croatia.

Corona Chronicles from Buenos Aires

Gerhard Dilger, RLS Buenos Aires
For the coming weeks, RLS Brussels Office will publish clips from colleagues, comrades, and friends from Europe and beyond giving personal impressions of the crisis, the measures, living and coping. This contribution comes from the Buenos Aires Regional Office of Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung.

Interview with Sofie Merckx

Florian Horn, RLS Brussels
Medics for the people (Médecine pour le people, MPLP) BelgiumSofie Merckx, 45, is a general practitioner and works at the Medics for the people (Médecine pour le people, MPLP) health center in Charleroi, Belgium. From 2012 to 2019 she has been member of the city council of Charleroi for the Workers' Party of Belgium (PTB-PVDA). In 2019 she has been elected member of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives. Medics for the people is a network of 11 first line health centers in Belgium. At the moment, 65 doctors and a total of 250 (doctors, nurses, other paramedical...
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Introduction to the Democracy debate

A critical global dialogue on democracy
Which democracy for systemic transformation, or how to cope democratically with a dying civilization?We are currently experiencing the most serious crisis today’s dominant civilization has brought about. A civilization that is modern and colonial simultaneously, deeply marked by patriarchy, built on the invention of race, caste and a specific form of state, and capitalist class relations, as well as on the destruction of nature. COVID-19 has not only killed hundreds of thousands and brought a frenetic, it has halted the globalized capitalist economy in ...
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