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Call for papers for a study on the Struggles around water

With the current debate at the European level of the Drinking water Directive and a possible revision of the main piece of legislation at European level the Water Framework Directive pending as well as with an overhaul of the entire water policies in Europe (urban waste water, circular economic, etc ...

Municipalism in Spain

In Spain's municipal elections of May 2015, a constellation of new political forces emerged. For the first time in almost 40 years of Spanish democracy, the country’s major cities would no longer be ruled by either the Partido Popular (PP) or the Partido Socialista Obrero Español (PSOE), or any of the other long established political forces, but by new "Municipalist Confluences" such as Ahora Madrid, Barcelona en Comú, and Cadiz Si Se Puede, to name just a few ...

Municipalismo en España

En las elecciones municipales españolas en mayo de 2015 emergió una constelación de nuevas fuerzaspolíticas. Por primera vez en casi 40 años de democracia en España, las ciudades más importantesdel país no iban a estar gobernadas por el Partido Popular (PP) ni por el Partido Socialista ObreroEspañol ...

Healthy changes

On 25 & 26 October 2016, around 20 representatives coming from Africa, South, Central and North America, Asia and Europe met in Brussels to discuss struggles for health around the world. The meeting was co-organised by the European network against health commercialization, People's Health Movement Europe and the Brussels office of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung ...

Resisting Evictions Across Europe - now in French!

As this report makes depressingly clear, the forcible eviction of people from their homes – whether rented, owned or occupied – is on the rise in Europe. In some respects, Europe has arrived late to the global eviction party that each year sees millions of people displaced from housing across the world ...

La Resistencia a los Desahucios en Europa

Como este informe muestra de forma tristemente clara, los desahucios de gente de sus casas ya sean alquiladas, en propiedad u ocupadas sube en Europa. De alguna forma Europa ha llegado tarde a la fiesta global de los desahucios que cada año ve a millones de personas desplazadas de la vivienda en todo el mundo ...

Resisting Evictions Across Europe

As this timely report makes depressingly clear, the forcible eviction of people from their homes – whether rented, owned or occupied – is on the rise in Europe. In some respects, Europe has arrived late to the global eviction party that each year sees millions of people displaced from housing across the world ...

Re-Politicisation of the Public Space

We invited local politicians and activists from social movements as well as interested citizens to exchange experiences and discuss possibilities and requirements of housing policies in communities as a basic political field of right to the city concepts. A detailed report is available for download ...

A Post-capitalist Paradigm. The Common Good of Humanity

Rethinking the reproduction of life and the continuity of life on our planet from the perspective of the paradigm of the Common Good of Humanity is an urgent necessity in the current situation.There is need to analyze in depth both the concept at the basis of the paradigm and its implications, to increase ...

The Common Good of Humanity – Actors and Strategies

The inherent crisis of neoliberal policies got stronger in the 1990s with different the currency crisis around the world. Liberal thinkers talked about a crisis of governance and the concept of Global Governance was invented as a kind of social democratic answer to the internationalization of the state ...

The Common Good of Humanity – Actors and Strategies

The inherent crisis of neoliberal policies got stronger in the 1990s with different the currency crisis around the world. Liberal thinkers talked about a crisis of governance and the concept of Global Governance was invented as a kind of social democratic answer to the internationalization of the state ...

On Common Good, Money and Credit

"As Kosick maintained, homo oeconomicus is not only a theoretical aberration, it is an aberration of reality. The idea of human beings that Neo-classical Economics portrays is, without a doubt, a degeneration, and does little as the explicative axis of current society and even less in relation to the structural crisis in which we are living ...

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

"... There has to be a change of paradigms, to permit a symbiosis between human beings and nature, access of all to goods and services, and the participation of every individual and every collective group in the social and political organizing processes, each having their own cultural and ethical expression: in other words to realize the Common Good of Humanity ...

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

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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 ...

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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Call for papers for a study on the Struggles around water

Municipalism in Spain

Municipalismo en España

Healthy changes

Resisting Evictions Across Europe - now in French!

La Resistencia a los Desahucios en Europa

Resisting Evictions Across Europe

Re-Politicisation of the Public Space

A Post-capitalist Paradigm. The Common Good of Humanity

The Common Good of Humanity – Actors and Strategies

The Common Good of Humanity – Actors and Strategies

On Common Good, Money and Credit

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

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

Commons-Conference in Rome, April 2011

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

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