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Social Democrats win elections amidst parliamentary fragmentation

These elections leave us with a current snapshot, which looks more like the other parliaments in Europe than Spain's traditional bipartisanship

An attack on the solidarity-based system

Social security and solidarity, or private insurance and individualism: this the choice facing the French people

Job vacancy: Project manager in Brussels

The WTO: Out of Service, but Obsessed with Services

The WTO launched its World Trade Report 2019 on the future of the service industry at its annual Public Forum, but fierce debates during the event prove that the WTO is almost completely out of service

French Republicanism

In France, the idea of the “nation” and of the “Republic” are deeply intertwined. To be French means to be a republican

Which way off the roundabout

It has been a quiet few months for the gilets jaunes, until recently omnipresent in their fluorescent yellow, roadside emergency vests, protesting on roundabouts throughout France and television sets around the world

Call for Tenders: Creation of photos and videos for the Coca-Cola conference in Paris

Urban Movement

Introducing a new project

A Season in Hell, the masterwork of French poet Arthur Rimbaud, was written amidst the conservative backlash to the revolutionary Paris Commune of 1871

Portuguese elections

On Sunday, the 6 of October, Partido Socialista (PS) couldn’t reach the majority of the pools predicted in the early weeks of the campaign for the 2019 Portuguese legislative elections

Parliamentary elections in Austria

The breakdown of the negotiations in Spain

PSOE and Unidas Podemos have unsuccessfully negotiated the formation of a stable progressive government and now fight in the wake of fierce backlash

What’s Left of the past? Revisiting ideas for an emancipatory and united Europe

The "Ursula" affair splits Italian populism (and the left)

It is August 21, in the afternoon the news of the day in Italy are the undocumented migrants who jump into the water near the island of Lampedusa out of the Open Arms ship that rescued them

The G20 in Osaka: all quiet on the Eastern front

All is not well with the G20, which lacks democratic legitimacy, is hopelessly divided and is also losing its political influence

Outgoing government: Infighting lead to the fall of the Danish right

Since its election in 2015, Denmark’s rightist government had been struggling to keep control of a chaotic coalition

The core of the yellow vest movement rejects the far right

Quantité Critique is a group of sociology lecturers, doctoral students and undergraduates who have been investigating social movements in France

Global Working Group

Decline of the Left

According to a survey by Ipsos MORI, although four out of five Czechs are interested in environmental issues such as the sustainability

First Defeat of the »Levica« and Victory of the Traditional Established Parties

Before the elections, the public polls were showing a tightly matched battle for the 8 seats allocated to Slovenia in the European Parliament

Not just another Brexit blog

There are myriad Brexit blogs, yet few from a left position

Beyond Gas Conference 2019

RLS Brussels together with a group of environmental NGOs is organised the 3rd edition of the Beyond Gas conference

Feminist Responses to Austerity

Interviews with Inés Campillo Poza (Spain), Pauline Cullen (Ireland) and Aliki Kosyfologou (Greece)

Comment on neo-Nazi-trial by Fritz Burschel

The NSU-verdict

Gastivists: Stopping A Fossil Fuel Lock-In

Join a global movement that is rising up to stop fossil gas, fossil fuels, and the extractive economy it maintains.

The Populist Moment and the Future of Democracy

"Rethinking Europe" lecture by Chantal Mouffe and inauguration of our new offices

Organizing for a Left Hegemony

At the first European Summer School in Madrid about 100 people discussed social rights, struggles and strategies for the left in Europe

Catalonia Conflict

Interviews and panel discussions around the Catalonia conflict at the RLS European Summer School

Time to go beyond gas!

Activists, NGOs, academics and decision-makers build a global network against further gas projects.

TUED in Europe: laying the groundwork

Report of a two-day working meeting of unions and close allies in the energy democracy movement