London Office

The London Office opened in autumn 2019, and with funds from the German Ministry for Foreign Affairs coordinates projects and supports non-profit organizations across all regions of the United Kingdom as well as Ireland. Our work focuses on four key aims:

Developing alternative democratic models of society and new forms of democratic participation; in particular, building a positive movement against the rise of the far right.
Finding solutions to social, economic, and gender-based injustices following a decade of austerity. The development of a new and intersectional class politics and the fight for the right to space, time, and basic resources.
Building a politics which recognizes that fighting ecological breakdown can only be undertaken by transforming society and tackling social and global injustice.
A critical reading and analysis of European historical events and their relevance today.

Johanna Bussemer

Head of Office

Dec 19th, 2019

The 2019 General Election and Scotland

The 2019 UK general election result was a shock for the left. An 80-seat Conservative majority in the House of Commons — an unfamiliar sight after nearly ten years of coalition and minority rule — has already led to Boris Johnson moving quick to capitalise on his new mandate to ensure Brexit will go ahead. In Scotland, the left needs now to move beyond rhetorical opposition to the Tories and create a new vision of what kind of country Scotland should be.
Apr 4th, 2019

Fateful elections for Europe?

The 2019 European elections will take place in rather unsettling times for the European Union. With the fallout from the euro crisis far from over, the Union looks on anxiously as the next cycle of crisis approaches. Moreover, one consequence of the euro crisis is that it exacerbated a serious crisis of legitimacy for the system of representative democracy in the European Union and EU Member States ...

London Office

Johanna Bussemer

The 2019 General Election and Scotland

Fateful elections for Europe?