Publications (Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Büro Brüssel)

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

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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. We know that we must recognize how finance capital has gained a tremendous advantage from the transformation of commodified housing into an object of financial speculation to a larger extent than before ...

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 ...

Mar 3rd, 2019

Industry 4.0

New Challenges for the European World of Work We appear to be on the cusp of a new age. The era of digitalisation looks set to revolutionise the status quo, from the world of work to the way we live, from leisure activities and public space through to politics and privacy. Technically, the term ‘digitalisation’ refers to the enhancement of information and communication processes by means of digital storage, transmission and processing technology ...

Sep 7th, 2018

Impact of Austerity Measures on Women in Croatia

When we first started to look at various data, we found that both men and women in Croatia suffered grave consequences of the recent economic crisis. Only when we turned our eye to the devastation that happened during the 1990s and in the early 2000s did it became possible to see the different effects of cuts to social services and privatisation processes on women as a group ...

Jul 17th, 2018

"Should Women Have More Rights?" - Traditional Values and Austerity in Russia

Russia has been experiencing the results of an acute economic crisis since 2012. However, the government has not been explicit in its declarations regarding austerity policies. On the contrary, it tends to represent its measures as "normal" and generally justifies cuts to public expenditure and reduced spending as part of a new understanding of the welfare state and socio-economic relations ...

Jun 28th, 2018

Devaluation of Female Labor and the Retreat of the State

Following the Euromaidan, the outbreak of war and ensuing economic crisis, the Ukrainian government introduced wide-ranging reforms guided by the neoliberal idea that stability and economic growth can be generated by cutting social spending. Despite the government's proclaimed intent to support the poorest and weakest members of Ukrainian society, the opposite has occurred, and the negative effects of the new reforms have ended up targeting them most ...

Jun 28th, 2018

Irish Feminist Approaches against Austerity Regimes

We find austerity is gendered and that, following almost a decade of austerity, the position of women in Ireland has regressed economically and socially. Different dynamics shape gendered austerity which in some instances re-feminises care, while in other instances forces a process of de-domestication for some women ...

Jun 28th, 2018

The Permanent Care Crisis and Its Effects on Gender Equality

The international financial crisis that began in 2007 hit the Spanish economy hard, accelerating the housing market's collapse and increasing unemployment (which rose from 9.6% in 2008 to 26.9% in 2013) and the risk of poverty. The European Union intensified its pressure on Spain in spring 2010, as Zapatero's government approved the first package of austerity measures in May of that year, along with labour market and pension reforms later on ...