World Social Forum as a Policy Influencing Body

The Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung is an internationally operating, progressive non-profit institution for civic education affiliated with Germany’s “Die Linke” (Left Party). Active since 1990, the foundation has been committed to the analysis of social processes and developments worldwide.

They were involved in the Occupy Wall Street protests, promoting Black Lives Matters and they published the booklet The Battle for Another World: The Progressive Response to the New Right, from which the above quote on the World Social Forum emerged.