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  Nov 30th, 2011

  Consciousness-raising and Prevention in the Struggle Against Violence and War

  In November 2011, the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Brussels invited women peace activists, peace researchers and policy makers to the conference “Consciousness-Raising and prevention in the struggle against violence and war”. The conference aimed to facilitate the exchange of experiences of women in resisting and struggling against violence and war ...
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  Nov 30th, 2011

  Consciousness-raising and Prevention in the Struggle Against Violence and War

  In November 2011, the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Brussels invited women peace activists, peace researchers and policy makers to the conference “Consciousness-Raising and prevention in the struggle against violence and war”. The conference aimed to facilitate the exchange of experiences of women in resisting and struggling against violence and war ...
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  Nov 25th, 2011

  The Contribution of Women to Peace and Reconciliation

  Report on the cooperation project with women peace activists from Somalia, Rwanda, Ex-Yugoslavia, Israel and Palestine, by Birgit Daiber, November 2011 "I am convinced that this war need not have been; that wars need not to beat all. There were alternatives, as there are in every conflict, even though much of history remains alive in the present ...
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  Nov 21st, 2011

  Post-Demokratie in Italien und Griechenland ganz praktisch

  Der lange heraus gezögerte Schuldenschnitt in den GIIPS-Staaten im Sinne eines Schulden Audits nach dem historischen Vorbild Ecuador ist das vielleicht drastischste Beispiel einer Politik ganz im Sinne der Banken. Der Schuldenschnitt, so wie er nun im Moment für Griechenland verabredet wurde tut den Banken, zumal denen in Deutschland, kaum weh ...
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  Nov 19th, 2011

  About the Israeli Social Justice Protests

  Feminist and peace activist Dr. Ruchama Marton, founder and president of Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, reports in this interview on the demonstrations in Israel since July 2011, its proliferation, the reaction of the media, the reactions of the government and the convocation to form 1000 round tables ...
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  Nov 17th, 2011

  Europe Must Become Conscious of its Own Culture

  I would like to start my talk with a remark which has no direct connection to CULTURE, but I think we can’t do without a somewhat dramatic observation: We are currently experiencing the decline of Europe and of the role of Europe. The dynamic is gone; the citizens don’t understand the European Union ...
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  Oct 31st, 2011

  Changes and Challenges: The African and European Left in Dialogue

  IntroductionIn 2009 the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in Brussels in cooperation with the Transnational Institute and the World Forum for Alternatives held a conference entitled “Beyond the World Crisis”. At this conference we discussed divers topics like the productive forces and the necessary reshaping ...
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  Oct 30th, 2011

  Sinistra, Ecologia e Libertà

  The Congress formalized the birth of the party Sinistra, Ecologia and Libertà, therefore merging the founding parties and movements, cooperating since 2009 ( Movimento per la Sinistra ( from PRC), Uniti per la Sinistra (from PdCI), a part of the Greens, Sinistra Democratica). Numbers: more than 1000 delegates representing 42,000 SEL members ...
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  Sep 19th, 2011

  About the Israeli Social Justice Protests

  Feminist and peace activist Dr. Ruchama Marton, founder and president of Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, reports in this interview on the demonstrations in Israel since July 2011, its proliferation, the reaction of the media, the reactions of the government and the convocation to form 1000 round tables ...
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  Jul 11th, 2011

  Beschäftigungs- und Sozialpolitik in der EU: Wer, wie, was?

  Ende September 2010: Über 100 000 GewerkschafterInnen aus ganz Europa demonstrieren in Brüssel gegen die Krisenpolitik der EU. Die Demo zieht durch das Europaviertel, in dem sich die Gebäude des EU-Parlaments, der Kommission und des Ministerrates befinden. Wer aber ist der richtige Adressat für Forderungen ...
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  Jul 5th, 2011

  Spain’s Indignados

  For three years now, Europe has been in the throes of the worst economic crisis since the end of the Second World War. Especially in the poorer countries of the EU, the crisis has struck with full force. In preparatory obedience, to make sure it would indeed fulfil all the expectations of international speculators, Spain brutally slashed its public budget ...
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  Jun 30th, 2011

  Lecture: The European Social Model in Crisis

  "... Una delle cose che vorrei provare a dimostrare è che se esiste una possibilità per la Sinistra (per la Sinistra che in qualche misura si senta erede della tradizione del movimento operaio, cioè di una sinistra che interpreta la politica come idea di conquista dell’uguaglianza e di trasformazione ...
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  Jun 21st, 2011

  European Solidarity is not free

  The European Union is beside itself – not with excitement but with worry, and because of unrest and feelings of helplessness. Many people doubt whether financial and political elites are equipped to deal with the financial and debt crises European countries face, or indeed whether the existing capitalist system can be justifiably used to tackle these crises simply because it was successful on the level of systemic competition ...
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  May 31st, 2011

  Democracy in Europe and the Middle East: Impressions of the European-Israeli Exchange

  What is the condition of democracy in today’s Europe, and what challenges does it face in the Middle East? That was the issue discussed by representatives of academia, politics and civil society at the end of May 2011 at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in Brussels. The topic of the exchange of opinion was purposely formulated openly, and extended from questions of party and media democracy, through the rights of women and minorities, to internal security and right-wing extremism ...
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  May 5th, 2011

  Video Documentary: Caravan for the Freedom of Movement from Bamako to Dakar in February 2011

  In May 2011, the video documentary on the Caravan for the Freedom of Movement from Bamako to Dakar has been finalized. The title of the video documentary is: "... denn wir leben von der gleichen Luft" (because we do breathe the same air) (published by timecode e.V.). The caravan took place in the context of the World Social Forum in Dakar in February 2011 ...
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  May 4th, 2011

  Commons-Conference in Rome, April 2011

  Shortly after Easter, the staff of Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Brussels took off to Rome - for the Commons-Conference (27/28 April 2011). Invited were experts, scholars, politicians and activists from Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia. On the programme had been debates on the cornerstones of commons: the societal relations human beings and nature, relations of production and economy, organisation of collective life and interculturality ...
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  Apr 30th, 2011

  Passive Revolutions vs. Socialist Transformation

  « Systemic crisis or business as usual: Analyses of the current crisis oscillate between these two poles. But neither is capitalism as such in crisis, nor can the form of capitalist development of the past thirty years simply be carried on. The specific form of the transnational information technological mode of production and life under neoliberal hegemony has fallen into a structural or organic crisis ...
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  Apr 30th, 2011

  From "Common Goods" to "The Common Good of Humanity"

  The conference was organized by RLS Brussels and Altramente-Scuola per tutti and Transform Italia, and took place in the Centro Congressi Frentani in RomeSeit der ersten internationalen Konferenz des Brüsseler Büros im Herbst 2009 „Beyond the World Crisis“ haben eine Reihe von internationalen Experten an der Vorbereitung einer Diskussion über die gemeinschaftlichen Güter der Menschheit gearbeitet ...
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  Mar 31st, 2011

  Three Palestinian Women from Gaza in Brussels

  Last week in Brussels, I received three women from Gaza, who are working in different sectors of UNRWA, the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees. It was made possible with the support of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. Rada is a medical doctor, Siham works with the operations covering all the UNRWA programmes and Siam is a teacher ...
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  Mar 31st, 2011

  Border Policy of the European Union in Africa and the Charta for the Global Freedom of Movement

  "... Das transnationale Netzwerk Afrique-Europe-Interact nahm die Lancierung der Charta und das WSF 2011 zum Anlass, sich offiziell zu formieren und eine gemeinsame Karawane der afrikanischen und europäischen Gruppen zum WSF 2011 zu organisieren. Taktgeber waren mehrere Gruppen in Mali, in denen ...