2025 ACORN International Organizers Conference

From November 7–10, organizers representing more than a dozen affiliates gathered in Brussels for the 2025 ACORN International Organizers Conference; an inspiring weekend of strategy, solidarity, and shared commitment to building working-class power across continents.

Delegates attended from ACORN Canada, ACORN Union (England & Wales), OnEstEnsemble Cameroon, ACORN France, ACORN Sicily (Justice Ensemble), Solidarjetà Belgium, PSCC Malta, Living Rent Scotland, Gig Workers India, WUUNE Belgium, as well as Local 100 United Labor Unions, and Progressive Maryland from the United States. Our Palestinian affiliate, represented by Mahmoud Soliman and Mohammed Hasan Matar, delivered one of the most powerful addresses of the conference.

Over four days, organizers shared breakthroughs and challenges from tenant unions, worker campaigns, heat-safety fights, anti-renoviction battles, rights-to-rent struggles, and resistance to displacement. We hit the doors with local partners in Brussels and Charleroi, exchanged concrete tools for recruitment and leadership development, and dug into strategies for organizing in a moment marked by rising right-wing pressure globally.

A major highlight was the presentation from the PSCC West Bank / Popular Struggle Coordination Committee, whose work defending olive groves through planting and harvest mobilization, as acts of resistance against illegal settler land grabs, moved and energized all affiliates. Their courage and practical organizing tactics will inform ACORN campaigns worldwide.

The conference closed with a renewed commitment to deeper cooperation, cross-border support, and escalated organizing in 2025. From Brussels to the West Bank, from India to Scotland, from Malta to Canada and the U.S., ACORN’s international network leaves this gathering more united, more skilled, and more determined than ever.