Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Brussels Office

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 ...

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 ...

Global Working Group Beyond Development

About the Global Working Group The Global Working Group Beyond Development is hosted by the Brussels Office of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung since 2016. It includes around thirty engaged researchers, activists and popular educators from all five continents which bring together knowledge and experience ...

The future of electricity and gas

The Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Brussels Office organised a workshop on European energy policies on 5-6 October 2015 in Brussels. Participants from Spain, France, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany exchanged views on the current European energy strategies, discussed approaches to an alternative ...

Call: Renewing Europe – For a common social and ecological industrial policy in Europe

The European left is yet lacking a common position to oppose the economic policies of the Troika. To find - even the lowest - common denominator of the different approaches and experiences of European member states and left parties, we will need targeted and concerted common efforts.The project Left European Industrial Policy aims to offer help with the beginning of this process of international understanding ...

Socio-ecological Transformation and Energy Policy in Latin America and Europe

The central issue of the seminar: What does emancipatory social-ecological transformation mean concretely, and, in terms of practical policy, particularly in the area of energy resources and their production, distribution and consumption – today and in future?The goals of the Conference are (a) an analysis ...

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