Publications (Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Büro Brüssel)

Jun 30th, 2021

A militarised Union

Understanding and confronting the militarisation of the European Union

Jun 7th, 2021

The Struggle of Farm Workers in Italy

The agricultural produce that ends up on our table from supermarket shelves and market stalls does not tell the story of the lives of the countless men and women who toil in the fields and greenhouses of Italy in conditions and at a pace that are often reminiscent of modern slavery

May 20th, 2021

Solidarity is more than a slogan

International Workers Aid and Bosnia and Herzegovina during and after the 1992-1995 war

May 20th, 2021

Green New Deals

A big deal for fair climate protection or just the latest version of the capitalist model?

May 16th, 2021

Together we are strong!

Towards a coordinated action for the social-ecological transformation of the European automotive industry

Dec 16th, 2020

The impact of a Financial Transaction Tax (FTT) on economic recovery and financial stability

This report analyses the impact of an FTT on financial stability, market liquidity, economic growth and revenue collection. It will assess the collection of this tax and its effects on some of the most speculative markets, such as high-frequency trading markets, or markets eluding public control, such as shadow banking

Jul 20th, 2020

Cities of Dignity

This book is the third publication of the Global Working Group Beyond Development. This is a group that seeks to analyse and critique the global political economy and its social, political and environmental impact, taking as its premise the diagnostic that the world is facing a civilizational crisis – a crisis caused by the notions of unlimited growth guiding our societies and the resulting dispossession at the margins, principally affecting the Global South.

Jul 8th, 2020

Digital Trade Rules

The largest corporations in the history of the world – Amazon, Facebook, Google, Apple, and Microsoft – are seeking to use ‘trade’ rules to rig the rules of the global (digital) economy to enable them to collect more data, exercise more control over our lives and their workers, and amass ever more profit.

Mar 6th, 2020

Feminise Politics Now!

This publication offers insights into what the movement has learnt and presents a set of tried-and-tested tools based on its political experience, a toolkit that can be adopted, adjusted and implemented by like-minded organisations, movements and activists.

Mar 6th, 2020

BURNING EARTH, CHANGING EUROPE:

In Europe today, more people than ever before are convinced that climate change is a pressing political issue. This is not a win by default.

Dec 3rd, 2019

2nd edition: The long struggle of the Amazon employees

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Dec 1st, 2019

Against Trade Wars

How global imbalances are threatening peace, justice and democracy

Aug 7th, 2019

The European Car Lobby

The story of the European Union (EU) is often told as a tale of peace and economic prosperity. However, it can also be framed in terms of rapid growth in the transport sector, which is firmly in the grip of ‘fossil capitalism’. The invention at the heart of this mobility model, which is causing widespread environmental destruction, is the internal combustion engine (Candeias et al ...

Jul 4th, 2019

Alternatives in a World of Crisis: 2nd edition

This book is the result of a collective effort. In fact, it has been written by many contributors from all over the world – women, men, activists, and scholars from very different socio-cultural contexts and political horizons, who give testimony to an even greater scope of social change. Their common ...

Apr 8th, 2019

Strategic Crossroads

The purpose of this paper is to offer an overview of the current situation of the left in Spain. Our double objective is to describe the main aspects – trajectories, actors, issues and debates – of this situation, but also to offer an assessment of the possibilities, limitations and dilemmas of the Spanish experience ...

Mar 26th, 2019

Manuale del Mutualismo

Sommario La situazione economico-sociale e politica italiana desta nel quadro europeo grande interesse e spunti di riflessione. L´Italia è zona di confine e tensione fra molteplici contraddizioni. Tesa fra l´Europa continentale e Mediterraneo è porta verso il continente Africano. All´interno della divisione del lavoro internazionale nell´Unione Europea il Bel Paese si colloca in una posizione intermedia ...

Mar 12th, 2019

Stopping the Machines

The present text is the result of a collective process of analysis, dialogue, and editing based on the second meeting of the Global Working Group Beyond Development in the Ecuadorian capital, Quito, and in Nabón County, in Azuay province, in May 2017. It represents an effort to understand the historical moment our world is living through, its patterns of domination and the tendencies, prospects, and challenges of a multidimensional transformation ...

Mar 6th, 2019

Fair, gerecht, besser noch solidarisch handeln

Bei den internationalen Handelsbeziehungen geht es um viele, darunter auch sehrwidersprüchliche Probleme gleichzeitig, zum Beispiel um erlaubte und verbotene Subventionen, Freihandel und Protektionismus, Arbeits- und Umweltstandards. In all diesen Belangen, Forderungen, Erwartungen, Verboten und Ermessensspielräumen soll es möglichst ‚fair und gerecht‘ zugehen ...

Mar 5th, 2019

Housing financialization

Everyday, members of the European Action Coalition for the Right to Housing and the City witness the manifestations of the housing crisis and feel the need to address its systemic causes.

Mar 5th, 2019

Wellsprings of Resistance

Water is undeniably vital for human life, yet it is precisely because of water‘s fundamental role that it has long been a focus of struggles in Europe between ruling classes and the people. There have been numerous attempts to rob people of their access to water and deny them decision-making powers over these precious resources and their management ...