Fundação Rosa Luxemburgo

What Fundação Rosa Luxemburgo does

Fundação Rosa Luxembugo is a Brazilian non-profit foundation registered under CNPJ 13.510.948/0001-39 and headquartered at Rua Ferreira de Araújo, 36, in São Paulo, Brazil. The organization is part of the international Rosa Luxemburg Foundation network anchored by rosalux.de in Germany and operates across Brazil and Paraguay. It conducts political education, social justice research, and policy analysis centered on Rosa Luxemburg's intellectual legacy, with thematic focus areas including urban mobility (Tarifa Zero), climate justice, energy transition, workers' rights, and right-wing fundamentalisms. The foundation is led by Director Andreas Behn and Coordinator Daniel Santini, with a staff of five employees.

The foundation's product portfolio consists of free digital content and live programming: downloadable books published under Creative Commons CC BY NC ND license (including the 'Cidade Livre' collection), a digital archive of Rosa Luxemburg's selected texts, podcasts, videos, analytical articles, the free online course 'O Legado Revolucionário de Rosa Luxemburg', and the documentary 'Tarifa Zero: Cidade em Disputa'. It distributes this content through its website (rosalux.org.br and rosaluxemburgo.rosalux.org.br), social channels (Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Telegram), email newsletters, and event-based distribution at conferences, book launches, film screenings, and academic symposia. Strategic partnerships include Brasil de Fato for media co-production, Autonomia Literária for publishing, and academic alliances with UFABC, UFRRJ, UERJ, and USP.

The organization operates on a non-commercial model: all publications, books, and materials are provided free of charge under Creative Commons. There are no paid products or services, no disclosed revenue, and no funding rounds on record. Operating economics rely on institutional funding and donations, supplemented by its affiliation with the German Rosa Luxemburg Foundation network. The foundation's research has documented and helped popularize the Tarifa Zero universal free public transport policy, with Brazil holding 130+ municipalities under such policies as of May 2025, the highest concentration worldwide.

Name

Fundação Rosa Luxemburgo

Legal name

Fundação Rosa Luxemburgo

Website

https://rosalux.org.br

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Fundação Rosa Luxembugo is a Brazilian non-profit foundation that promotes Rosa Luxemburg's political legacy through free publications, online courses, documentaries, and events, serving academics, social movements, and policy actors across Brazil and Paraguay.

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Product category

Political education and social justice research

NAICS

Grantmaking Foundations (813211), Social Advocacy Organizations (8133), Human Rights Organizations (813311), Civic and Social Organizations (8134)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200), Miscellaneous Publishing (2741)

akta.pro primary industry

Private Foundations (BPAGAKAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Social Justice & Human Rights Grantmaking Foundations (BPAGAKAN), Civic Education & Community Engagement (Voting, Local Government) (EDAAAFAC)

Keywords

• Political education materials
• Social justice research
• Creative commons publishing
• Popular education programs
• Urban mobility policy

Headquarters

HQ city

São Paulo

HQ country

Brazil

HQ region

Latin America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Institutional Funding: As a non-profit foundation (registered under CNPJ 13.510.948/0001-39), the organization operates primarily through institutional funding and donations. The specific funding sources are not disclosed in the available materials.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Fundação Rosa Luxembourg is a Brazilian non-profit foundation that produces and freely distributes political education content under a Creative Commons CC BY NC ND license. Its offerings include downloadable books, videos, podcasts, selected texts of Rosa Luxemburg, an online course on Rosa Luxemburg's revolutionary legacy, documentaries, analytical articles, and organized conferences and symposia, focused on social justice, urban mobility, climate justice, and Marxist political theory.

Product overview

Fundação Rosa Luxembugo is a Brazilian foundation that operates as a content publishing and educational platform. Its portfolio consists of free digital resources including downloadable books, videos, podcasts, selected texts, an online course, documentaries, and analytical publications. All content is made freely available under Creative Commons CC BY NC ND license. The organization focuses on political education through Rosa Luxemburg's legacy, social justice themes, and urban mobility policies.

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Problem solved

Functional benefit

Quantifiable outcome

• 116 cities documented with Tarifa Zero policies as of 2024
• +1 more outcomes

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Eleven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Brasil de FatocoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 6 June 2025Major media partnership for documentary production. Brasil de Fato co-produced 'Tarifa Zero: Cidade em Disputa' documentary with the foundation. Collaboration includes joint production, distribution, and promotional activities across Brasil de Fato's network of alternative media outlets.
• Autonomia LiteráriacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPublishing partnership for the 'Cidade Livre' (Free City) collection. Co-published books including 'Sem Catraca: da utopia à realidade da Tarifa Zero' with Daniel Santini as author.
• Instituto de Defesa de Consumidores (IDEC)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-organized the International Symposium on Tarifa Zero in May 2024 at UFABC, bringing together researchers, authorities, and civil society advocates.
• Laboratório de Planejamento Territorial (LAPLAN) - UFABCminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcademic partnership for organizing the International Symposium on Tarifa Zero, combining academic research with civil society advocacy.
• Rede Mobilidade PeriferiasminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNetwork partnership for organizing mobility-related events and research dissemination.
• Laboratório de Vida Ativa - Universidade do Estado do Rio de JaneirominorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcademic partnership for the International Conference on Tarifa Zero and Public Health in Mariana, MG.
• Prefeitura de MarianaminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMunicipal government partnership for organizing the International Conference on Tarifa Zero and Public Health.
• Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerBrazilian national research council providing institutional support for the International Conference on Tarifa Zero.
• Ministério da SaúdeminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerBrazilian Ministry of Health providing institutional support for research on Tarifa Zero and public health outcomes.
• CPDA/UFRRJminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborated on infographic production regarding climate change, carbon market, and REDD+ topics.
• rosalux.de (German Foundation Rosa Luxembug)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational network connection with the German-based Rosa Luxembug Foundation (rosalux.de), sharing resources and translations of Rosa Luxembug's works across different language versions of the website.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Others

• Brasil de Fato: Strategic partner that co-produced the 'Tarifa Zero: Cidade em Disputa' documentary. Comparable as a left-leaning media and content organization in Brazil with overlapping audience and ideological alignment, though focused on journalism rather than political education.
• ITDP (Institute for Transportation and Development Policy) Brazil: Organization working on sustainable urban mobility in Brazil. Comparable on the Tarifa Zero and urban mobility policy domain, though focuses on technical sustainable transport rather than the foundation's political-economy framing.

Direct peers

• Rosa Luxemburg Foundation (Germany): The German parent foundation of the same network. Directly comparable as a political foundation affiliated with Die Linke, focused on political education, social justice research, and grantmaking. The Brazilian entity shares resources, translations, and brand with this organization.
• Fundação Friedrich Ebert (Brazil): German-affiliated political foundation operating in Brazil. Directly comparable model: political education, social-democratic research, dialogue with social movements, and government engagement in Brazil. Same funding profile and structure.
• Fundação Perseu Abramo: Brazilian political foundation affiliated with the PT party. Directly comparable as a partisan-adjacent foundation conducting political research, publishing books, and organizing events on left-wing themes in Brazil.
• Fundação Konrad Adenauer (Brazil): Conservative counterpart to Rosa Luxemburg in the German political foundation ecosystem operating in Brazil. Same legal form, similar activities (political education, conferences, publications), serves the same institutional donor category.
• Fundação Heinrich Böll (Brazil): Another German-affiliated political foundation in Brazil with a parallel structure, focusing on ecology, democracy, gender, and human rights. Comparable as a politically-aligned foundation operating in Brazil with similar publishing and event programs.

Emerging players

• IBASE (Instituto Brasileiro de Análises Sociais e Econômicas): Brazilian nonprofit producing critical social research and publications since 1981. Comparable as a left-leaning civil society research and education organization with similar publishing activities, though more established and broader in scope.
• CEBRAP (Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento): Independent Brazilian think tank producing social science research. Comparable on research output and policy engagement, though operates more academically and less as a political education publisher than Fundação Rosa Luxembourg.

Broad incumbents

• Open Society Foundations (Latin America): Major international grantmaking foundation with significant Latin America operations. Comparable as a progressive grantmaking and advocacy foundation, though vastly larger and broader in scope than Fundação Rosa Luxembourg.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/frosalemburgo
• YouTubeyoutube.com/@fundacaorosaluxemburgo
• Facebookfacebook.com/fundacaorosaluxemburgo
• Instagraminstagram.com/fundacaorosaluxemburgo
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/funda%C3%A7%C3%A3o-rosa-luxemburgo

Compliance1 record

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Profiles2 records

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