This year marked the 50th anniversary of the fall of the military dictatorship in Greece and the establishment of the Third Greek Republic. At the same time, two parallel democratic transitions ended long-standing dictatorial regimes in Spain and Portugal. For Southern Europe it was the end of an era and the beginning of a new […]
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“Who owns our cities?”
A two-day conference on the housing crisis to answer crucial questions: Who really owns our cities today? Who is running our public and private spaces? We compare two iconic European cities experiencing similar problems with different approaches: Athens, with the most severe housing crisis in Europe, and Berlin with its recent experience of the referendum […]
Transnational meeting of grassroots collectives for Housing Justice
The European Action Coalition for the right to housing and to the city (EAC) is a network of 35 grassroot collectives and organisations active in more than 20 countries in Europe. Twice a year, the EAC members meet in a different European country. This time, the meeting will take place in Exarcheia, Athens. The Athens’ […]
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10 Years Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in Greece
The Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung – Office in Greece, is celebrating its 10th anniversary! We are delighted and honored to invite you to a two-day event to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the opening back in October 2012. • 30/09, at 19.30: Public discussion unter the title “Anti-fascist perspectives in the time of the turn to […]
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Politics of Liberation
1st Seminar: Dylan Riley “What Next? The End of Democratic Capitalism and the Tasks of the Left” You can watch the seminar live here. Politics of Liberation is a bi-monthly seminar series which will be convened by Rosa Vasilaki and Giorgos Souvlis and will take place in the premises of the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (Kallidromiou […]
Outsourcing Europe’s Borders
Please register for free here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/…/outsourcing-europes… Speakers: Apostolis Fotiadis (researcher), Rahmane Idrissa (political scientist), Muhammad al-Kashef (human rights lawyer and migration activist), Angela Melitopoulos (artist/filmmaker), Nandita Sharma (activist scholar) This programme, organised by research group System of Systems with the support of RLS Greece, brings together activists, legal practitioners, artists and researchers to explore the […]
Memory, Affect and Agonism
The research program Queer Politics/Public Memory drawing on the mobilizations, protests, cultural practices and solidarity gatherings following the murder of the activist Zak Kostopoulos/ Zackie Oh, organizes the first Roundtable from a series of scheduled public discussions, titled “ Memory, Affect and Agonism”. Taking as a starting point the political mobilizations “with anger and grief” […]
Against a mainstream (Far) Right
Panel discussion, Thursday, September 19th 2019, 19:00 All around Europe, but also in the Americas, the Far Right is on the rise. It is not necessarily a very militant version of Far Right organizations that gain ground, it is far more an extreme conservative, reactionary, in many cases religious Right that manages to persuade […]
X them out! A Black Map of Athens
“X them out! A Black Map of Athens” is a street campaign designed with the aim of pinpointing and highlighting the unseen criminality related to racist attacks in the public space. It is a joint initiative of the Rosa Luxembourg Foundation, Office in Greece, and the organization HumanRights360. To begin with, we selected 50 of […]
