Labournet TV is under threat!

We need your support.

Dear friends, dear comrades,

our campaign for supporting members starts today. Our funding has always been precarious, but with the loss of certain cultural fundings in 2025, Labournet TV is facing a major funding gap. We therefore need to gain 100 new supporters by the end of the year who will donate a total of €1,500 per month, otherwise we will not be able to continue our work in 2026. You can become a supporting member here.

How do we finance ourselves?
We are currently financed primarily by our 140 funding members, who together donate €1,900 per month. We also receive individual donations and project funding. For example, the Foundation "Menschenwürde und Arbeitswelt" has largely financed our new website. When we make larger films, we start a crowdfunder. While a great deal of unpaid work goes into Labournet TV, the project can not be sustained on a purely voluntary basis.

What happens next?
It would be very sad if we had to give up Labournet TV. The project has existed since 2011 and now, after 14 years, we've reached a point where we're able to do valuable work. We have built connections with workers and activists and can therefore achieve a lot. Since the new website went online, we have also had a number of volunteers who want to get involved and some of whom are already producing videos themselves. We have grown from five project activists to eight. And we are working on a new film project. - So in many ways things are going well at the moment, but to keep going we need a minimum of 3,500 euros per month. We hope for your support.

What will you be supporting if you become a funding member?
We document strikes on camera, from the workers' perspective. We do this to give the strikes more visibility, but sometimes they are also intended for internal discussion among colleagues.
Secondly, we also collect films and videos that we have not produced ourselves and make them available on labournet.tv free of charge and with subtitles. Our aim is to build up a historical visual memory of the class struggles in the various countries. So far, we have collected 903 films from 69 countries.
Thirdly, we produce a feature-length documentary film every few years. We do this when we think it's really important to document something, such as ‘Ditching The Fear’ (2015), a very successful strike wave of migrant logistics workers in Italy. With ‘The Loud Spring’ (2022), we made a strategic proposal for the climate movement that was much discussed.
Fourthly, we regularly organise free public film screenings. At 60 minutes, our films are always short enough to allow for discussion afterwards, because we are not interested in cinematics, but rather in creating spaces where we can come together to reflect and think about solutions.
Fifthly, we have developed a workshop in which over a weekend we teach how to produce a usable strike video without much effort. We think that more people should make strike videos and hope that they will then publish their work on labournet.tv.
Sixthly, we are also a film distributor, e.g. for ‘Pierburg’, an important strike film from 1973. We are often contacted when people want to show a film that they have discovered on labournet.tv.

The funding membership
Once a year, we invite our supporting members to a meeting. There we report on the past year, share our plans and welcome feedback and criticism. Above all, however, it is a n opportunity to connect we get to know each other and discuss what we could accomplish together. We would be delighted to get to know you too.

Become a supporting member now: https://labournet.tv/en/foerdermitgliedschaft