
The Zetkin Forum for Social Research
is a Europe-based platform that fosters
international exchange on social progress,
internationalism, and anti-fascism.
AREAS OF RESEARCH
How do we understand the rise of right-wing movements and governments today? What social forces drive fascist movements and what are effective strategies to counter this trend?
What can be learned from the history of socialist construction during the 20th century? How did the societies of so-called “real socialism” in Eastern Europe operate and what characterized their foreign policy?
How have societies developed and industrialized? What are the prospects for development in the Global South today and which theories can inform policy programmes?
The hegemony of the Global North appears to be waning. There is a discernible shift in the geopolitical landscape today. How did this come about and what contradictions exist within the Global North bloc?
We investigate comprehensive, people-centered approaches to health policy. This includes studies into historical and contemporary experiences with social medicine.

WOMEN’S LIBERATION
How do workplace and property relations influence the condition of women in society? What can be learned from past experiences and what questions remain unsolved?
FASCISM BACK IN EUROPE?
More than 100 years ago, a comprehensive debate began among Marxists to understand the phenomenon of fascism. In 2025, we will host a scientific-political conference to build on these debates, understand the controversies such as the relationship between liberalism and fascism up to the present day, and discuss the tendency towards fascism in concrete terms with Marxists, historians, and anti-fascists from across Europe.

About the Zetkin Forum
ADVISORY BOARD
The Zetkin Forum’s researchers are advised by a board of academics and intellectuals.

Vijay Prashad
Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research

Professor Christine Dabat
Federal University of Pernambuco (Brazil)

Professor Shaswati Mazumdar
University of Delhi (India)

Bruni de la Motte
UNISON (UK)

Sonia Vaz Borges
Drexel University (USA)
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