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Global Solidarity

Post Rosa: Letters Against Barbarism

Post Rosa: Letters Against Barbarism is a collection of letter exchanges in conversation with Rosa Luxemburg, in the year of her 150th anniversary. Twenty “Luxemburgians” from across the globe engage in vivid correspondence, with reference to and reflections about Luxemburg and the times we live in, as understood through their own bodies and geopolitical locations, […]

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Transatlantic Left Voices

Can Rosa Luxemburg Help Us Understand Racialized Capitalism?

Does the work of Rosa Luxemburg speak to the political issues of our time? Her lifeworld was defined by the horizons of a socialist movement in which issues of race and racism were either ignored or viewed as secondary to the class struggle. But the multidimensionality of Luxemburg’s life and work has a way of speaking to us across the historical barriers. Can her work help us understand the nature of racialized capitalism?

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Socialism Reignited in America

In this timely publication, Moritz Wichmann of neues deutschland gives a nuanced perspective on the rise of the Democratic Socialists of America and what takeaways we can draw from their biannual convention earlier this month.

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Transatlantic Left Voices

Socialism is . . .

In August 2014, the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung—New York Office brought together 100 leaders of the left from across the United States, Canada, and Europe for an “un-conference” on Mapping Socialist Strategies.

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Transatlantic Left Voices

Mapping Socialist Strategies: Reporting Back and Moving Forward

In the first days of August, 2014, the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung—New York Office brought together one hundred influential leftists and progressives from across the United States, Canada, and Europe for an “un-conference” on socialist strategies. The retreat was held at the Edith Macy Center, located in Westchester County about an hour north of New York […]

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Electoralism or Revolution

At the Left Forum 2014, Bernd Riexinger, co-chair of Germany’s DIE LINKE (Left Party), and Kshama Sawant, Seattle City Council Member, discuss current challenges and strategies of how we can move forward in rebuilding the Left.

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