France’s municipal elections open this Sunday — the last vote before the 2027 presidential race. @wbouchardon.bsky.social examines France’s shifting political landscape and how the fragmented Left is positioning itself ahead of the next national contest.
🌹♥️ On #IWD2026, hear from Moldovan activist Lilia Nenescu on feminist economy, labour rights, and solidarity with Ukrainian refugees. What would an economy beyond exploitation and endless growth look like? Watch the video now:
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On #InternationalWomensDay2026, Czech labour lawyer Anna Řídká explains why trade unions matter for feminist struggles. From collective bargaining to unpaid care work, unions can bridge the gap between labour rights and gender justice. 🌹🚩 Watch here:
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Housing crisis in Europe is not accidental. Our @rosaluxeu.bsky.social study, co-authored by Enikő Vincze and Eva Betavatzi, shows how EU economic governance fuels inequality and housing financialization. Download it for free on our website: rosalux.eu/en/2024/engl...
🔴 On 10 March, the European Parliament votes on the Housing Crisis report. Yet it fails to tackle speculation and financialization while criminalizing occupations. Last year, we co-organized the Popular Assembly for Housing Justice w/ @left.eu. More here: left.eu/events/popul...
Join us on 25 March for the launch of Reclaiming Steel: A Public Path for Europe’s Green Industrial Strategy. Hosted by MEP @marinamesure.bsky.social, the event explores how Europe can secure jobs and decarbonize steel through public ownership and planning. 👉 Sign up now: rosalux.eu/en/termine/l...
Selling nature to save it? The EU is pushing biodiversity credits as a market fix for ecological collapse. This new study warns they risk repeating carbon offset failures and deepening inequality. Download the full paper on our website:
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Join us in Malmö from 15–17 May for the Organize! Movement Meetup, co-organized with the Clara and Zetkin Foundations. Grassroots organizers, developers and trade unionists will share strategies and tools for building power. Register now:
“In less than a year, by December 2022, they had delivered more than 700,000 signatures to the legislative chamber, far exceeding the required number.”
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Shrinking civic space in the EU is no longer a fringe issue. A new policy report by @rosaluxeu.bsky.social and @enopeu.bsky.social, authored by Francesca De Benedetti, shows how rights are eroded, dissent marginalized and corporate power strengthened. A warning — and a call to act:
🗣️ “Civic space is not closing by accident. It reflects political choices — and it can be reversed.”
🔴 New ENoP & RLS publication: www.enop.eu/publications...
📉 Across the EU, civic space is shrinking — and democratic participation is increasingly hollowed out, restricted, or criminalised.
Civic space in the EU is shrinking. In a new report by @enopeu.bsky.social & @rosaluxeu.bsky.social, journalist Francesca De Benedetti shows how NGOs are criminalized, dissent sidelined and rights reframed as “competitiveness”. Download your free copy now:
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Spain will regularize over 800,000 undocumented migrants after more than two decades without a similar measure. Sustained pressure from the migrant-led movement Regularización Ya forced the government to break years of institutional inaction.
Our colleagues at @rosaluxeu.bsky.social are looking for a graphic designer to collaborate on a survey report about tech and organizing. Layout, design, illustration and data visualization. Remote, short-term project. Apply by 25 February 2026:
“Infrastructure is never neutral. Who builds it, owns it, and governs it determines the future.”
“Thus far, remembrance of colonialism in France is largely symbolic in nature.”
Can Nordic socialism point the way to a democratic economy? In a new essay, @pelledragsted.bsky.social of Denmark’s @enhedslisten.bsky.social argues that real socialist alternatives already exist in Nordic welfare states — and are key to countering the far right.
The EU is promoting biodiversity “nature credits” as a response to ecological collapse. Our new study Selling Nature shows why these markets are flawed, risk repeating carbon offset failures, and sideline public solutions to the biodiversity crisis.
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“If democracy is to survive the age of AI wars, privatized orbital networks, and authoritarian algorithmic governance, it must reclaim its own technological foundations.”
With the far right gaining ground, some on the Left look to the Popular Front of the 1930s for inspiration. But despite its successes in unifying the Left against fascism, the Popular Front’s overall track record was in fact decidedly mixed.
#NatureCredits won’t save nature, they’ll commodify it.
We can’t keep inviting markets to 'fix' what they helped destroy. The carbon credits fiasco is proof enough
So why is the EU Commission pushing this? Read our 🆕 study with @rosaluxeu.bsky.social on the motivations & interest groups behind it👇
The study Selling Nature: The EU’s Role in Creating Markets for Biodiversity is now available on our website — free to read and download:
Happening now in the European Parliament: the launch of Selling Nature on the EU’s push for biodiversity markets. Co-hosted by @rosaluxeu.bsky.social and @foeeurope.bsky.social with @mguenther.bsky.social plus voices from @eeb.org, fern and others, debating who really benefits from nature credits.
