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The current wars in Ukraine and the Gaza Strip show that it is worth fighting for a world without weapons. To mark the
#InternationalDayOfPeace
, our dossier looks at possible economic and diplomatic means as an alternative to arms deliveries and foreign missions:
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“We need to create sober, patient people, who do not despair in the face of the worst horror and who do not get excited about every little thing. Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.”
Happy birthday to the author of these lines, Antonio Gramsci!
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“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.”
Happy birthday to civil rights campaigner and communist, Angela Davis!
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On this day in 1917, working-class women in Petrograd launched a riot that began the Russian Revolution. The day has been celebrated as
#InternationalWomensDay
ever since. Wishing all of our comrades a joyful and successful
#IWD2023
! ✊🚩🌹
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Stuart Hall, born on this day in 1932, is widely regarded as the founding father of cultural studies. He was a fierce advocate of a Marxism “without guarantees” and one of the first to identify and critically interrogate the rise of neoliberal capitalism.
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Che Guevara was born
#OnThisDay
in 1928. An icon of the Cuban Revolution, the Argentinian Marxist is one of the most influential revolutionaries of the 20th century.
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“What is the robbing of a bank compared with the founding of a bank?”
Happy Birthday, Bertolt Brecht!
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Eric Hobsbawm, considered the greatest Marxist historian of the twentieth century, was born
#OnThisDay
in 1917.
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Happy Birthday, Rosa Luxemburg!
Our foundation’s namesake was a radical, a rabble-rouser and a revolutionary. As one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century, her calls for freedom, socialism and democracy sparked wide controversy.
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Happy birthday to the author of these lines, Antonio Gramsci! 🌹💫
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“Theory is capable of gripping the masses as soon as it demonstrates ad hominem, and it demonstrates ad hominem as soon as it becomes radical. To be radical is to grasp the root of the matter. But, for man, the root is man himself.”
Happy birthday, Karl Marx!
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Happy Birthday, Rosa Luxemburg! 🌹💫
Our foundation’s namesake was a radical, a rabble-rouser and a revolutionary. As one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century, her calls for freedom, socialism and democracy have inspired generations of changemakers.
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After only 1000 days in office, Chile’s first democratically elected socialist leader Salvador Allende and his Unidad Popular coalition, which sought to tread a third way between Soviet Communism and Western capitalism, came to an abrupt end
#OnThisDay
in 1973.
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Theodor Adorno, one of the 20th century’s most important Marxist intellectuals, was born
#OnThisDay
in 1903. An astute critic of capitalism, Adorno, along with other representatives of the Frankfurt School, was a crucial inspiration for the student rebellions of 1968.
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A brilliant writer, a trenchant social critic, a dedicated activist – Happy Birthday, James Baldwin!
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"Yesterday we had 1,179 deaths. If we had a little bit more reasonable president right now, he would probably be mourning those deaths ." —
@safbf
on the last episode of "Global Crisis – Global Solidarity". Watch the whole discussion here:
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Nearly 60 percent of Berliners voted to socialize corporate-owned flats in September 2021. Since then, politicians have questioned whether the move would really help tenants. A new RLS study shows: socialization lowers rents!
See the 🧵 for a couple of striking facts:
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Jenny Marx was born 209 years ago today. A journalist by profession, Jenny was above all a dedicated socialist. Together with her husband Karl, she fought for workers’ rights and, as few know, was involved in writing the original “Communist Manifesto” published in 1848.
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“We need to create sober, patient people, who do not despair in the face of the worst horror and who do not get excited about every little thing. Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.”
–Antonio Gramsci (22 January 1891 in Ales, Sardinia, 27 April 1937 in Rome).
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Sophie Scholl was born 101 years ago today. As a member of the resistance group "White Rose", the German student was captured while distributing leaflets against the Nazi regime and executed on the same day. Let us remember a strong example of youthful resistance against fascism.
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Happy birthday to civil rights campaigner and communist icon, Angela Davis! 💫
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Happy International Cat Day to all of our feline friends! 🐱✊
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Karl Marx died 140 years ago today. Together with Friedrich Engels, he is considered the founder of historical materialism, a theory that was to gain great influence in the international workers’ movement. Marx’s “Capital” still inspires critical minds around the world today.
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Happy Birthday, Walter Benjamin!
The philosopher was one of the great intellectuals in Weimar Germany, laying the foundations of critical theory. Although a sympathizer of the Communist movement, Benjamin always remained what some call a “left-wing outsider”.
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“Human beings are not efficiently designed for a capitalist system of production.”
Marxist Eric Hobsbawm, considered the greatest historian of the twentieth century, was born
#OnThisDay
in 1917.
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On 1 May 1886, American trade unions called a strike to finally enforce the 8-hour day, one of labour movement's central demands at the time. Half a million workers took part in violent and sometimes deadly clashes with the police, which were to be called the "Haymarket Riots".
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After nine months,
#Chile
’s Constitutional Convention is steadily working towards the drafting of a new constitution. Article 1, considered the backbone of the document, lays the foundation for a participatory, plurinational, and feminist democracy.
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Karl Marx died
#OnThisDay
in 1883. Together with Friedrich Engels, he pioneered historical materialism, the theoretical foundation of the international socialist workers’ movement. Marx’s “Capital” still inspires critical minds around the world today.
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Sophie Scholl and her brother Hans died 80 years ago today. As members of the “White Rose” resistance group, the German students were captured and executed while distributing leaflets against the Nazi regime. Let us remember a powerful example of youthful resistance to fascism.
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The workers united will never be defeated! ✊🚩
Wishing everyone a very happy and healthy International Workers’ Day from all of as at the
@rosaluxstiftung
. May Day symbolizes internationalism and solidarity — and therefore undoubtedly belongs to us.
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“We must prevent this brain from functioning for 20 years”, declared Mussolini’s chief prosecutor in 1926 when putting the leader of the Communist Party of Italy, Antonio Gramsci, on trial. Gramsci died
#OnThisDay
11 years later, killed by the conditions of his imprisonment.
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Rosa Luxemburg is a socialist icon, yet her prodigious intellectual output has often been reduced to footnotes. Join us on her 150th birthday for a series of panels, discussions, and lectures on the life and legacy of this incredible woman.
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🎉H A P P Y🥳B I R T H D A Y🎉R O S A🥳L U X E M B E R G🎉! ! !
To celebrate, we're spending all day discussing this phenomenal socialist's life and legacy on the Rosa Luxemburg at 150 livestream. Join us!
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Today would have been Rosa Luxemburg's 150th birthday. To mark the occasion, we put together RS LXMBRG, an audio-visual introduction to her life and work available in German, Polish, English, French, and Spanish.
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Did you know that it wasn’t until 1977 that women in the Federal Republic of Germany gained the right to have a job without their husband's permission? Uncover this and more on our “Feminist History Walk” available on our educational platform 🔻L!NX🔺:
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Sophie Scholl was born
#OnThisDay
in 1921. As a member of the White Rose resistance group, the German student was arrested while distributing leaflets against the Nazi regime and executed on the same day. Today, we remember a powerful example of resistance to fascist terror.
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Nearly 60 percent of Berliners voted to socialize corporate-owned flats in September 2021. Since then, politicians have questioned whether the move would really help tenants. A new RLS study shows: socialization lowers rents!
See the 🧵 for a couple of striking facts:
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Karl Marx was born
#OnThisDay
in 1818. Together with Friedrich Engels, he pioneered historical materialism, the theoretical foundation of the international socialist workers’ movement. Marx’s “Capital” still inspires critical minds around the world today.
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“It happened, therefore it can happen again.”
On 27 January 1945, the Red Army liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp. Today, we remember the millions of victims of the Holocaust, and resolve to never again allow such atrocities to occur — whether in Europe or anywhere else.
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We are deeply saddened by the passing of our comrade and collaborator, Jane McAlevey. Her powerful legacy as a labour organizer and strategist leaves us with a lifetime of lessons to draw on in the class struggles to come.
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On this day in 1848, the March Revolution began in Berlin as part of the revolutions of 1848/49. The uprisings, directed against aristocratic structures and for freedom and social justice, are the largest Europe-wide movement to date, laying the foundation for today’s democracy.
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To mark this
#InternationalWomensDay
, we teamed up with
@eleanorkpenny
and
@novaramedia
to produce this short film on the life and legacy of one of the greatest women, and indeed greatest socialists, to ever live:
#RosaLuxemburg
. Watch the whole film here:
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“People only talk about negative emission technologies, and that’s where the money goes instead of talking about what the world could look like.” We spoke to climate experts
@ysaheb
and Kai Kuhnhenn from
@NeueOekonomie
about the
#IPCC
's ideological bias.
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Why does Karl matter today? To commemorate Karl Marx’s death anniversary, we are happy to re-release our miniseries “K is for Karl”.
@paulmasonnews
takes us on a journey through the influential thinker’s life and ideas. See the 🧵 for all 5 episodes. Produced by
@RosaluxEuropa
.
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Scholars, activists and policy makers met in Dakar in October for the conference “Facing the Socio-Ecological Crisis: Delinking and the Question of Global Reparations”, organized by
@Mon_Sovereignty
with our support. Here are the principles that emerged:
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Born in Sardinia in 1891, Gramsci left his island home at a young age to study in Turin, then the stronghold of Italian industrial capitalism. In 1919 and 1920 he was a leading figure in the Turin workers' council movement.
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Today, socialists around the world mourn the untimely murder of Rosa Luxemburg at the hands of German proto-fascists in 1919. While commemorating her death, we also celebrate her life and ask: what can she teach us about socialism today?
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Hall argued that social critique should utilize Marxist theory, while acknowledging its weaknesses in order to avoid dogmatism and be open to critical impulses from other schools of thought.
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#OnThisDay
in 1974, the Portuguese people rose up and put an end to the dictatorship and its colonial empire. A mass movement led by Communists and socialists overthrew the Estado Novo regime and installed one of Europe's most vibrant democracies. O povo é quem mais ordena!
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Today is Clara Zetkin’s birthday. The co-founder of the proletarian women’s movement was born in 1857 in the Saxon town of Wiederau. For Zetkin, true women’s liberation was always closely tied to the liberation of all workers from exploitation and oppression.
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In the wake of
#Brazil
’s presidential election on Sunday, Sabrina Fernandes (
@safbf
) of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation on what
@LulaOficial
’s victory means for the country.
The election of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva signifies a return to "democratic normality" in Brazil, says sociologist Sabrina Fernandes (
@safbf
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In the wake of
#Brazil
’s presidential election on Sunday, Sabrina Fernandes (
@safbf
) of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation on what
@LulaOficial
’s victory means for the country.
The election of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva signifies a return to "democratic normality" in Brazil, says sociologist Sabrina Fernandes (
@safbf
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A new generation of African thinkers is using MMT to chart a path towards sovereign economic development on the continent. We spoke with
@KaiKodden
,
@MahaBenGadha
and
@nssylla
about their conference on African monetary sovereignty set to begin tomorrow.
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Today, Gramsci is remembered not only as a renowned Italian politician, but also as one of the most influential Marxists of the 20th century.
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“Theory is capable of gripping the masses as soon as it demonstrates ad hominem, and it demonstrates ad hominem as soon as it becomes radical. To be radical is to grasp the root of the matter. But, for man, the root is man himself.”
Today we remember Karl Marx.
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His ideas have informed a wide range of fields including theories of media, race and ideology, and he is also credited with coining the term “postcolonialism”.
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Our digital timeline following "Rosa Luxemburg in the Revolution" starts today –with daily updates about
#RosaLuxemburg
's life during the
#GermanRevolution
. Follow us on Twitter to stay updated!
#OnThisDay
#OTD
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In his Prison Notebooks, which established his reputation as one of the most important Marxist theorists, Gramsci grappled with the failure of revolution in Western Europe and the conditions for socialist politics in a modern, bourgeois society.
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“For a woman there is no other way out than to work for her liberation. This liberation can only be a collective one.”
The philosopher and feminist activist Simone de Beauvoir was born on this day 115 years ago.
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“We want you to choose the side of the people who are suffering right now in
#Israel
and
#Palestine
because of this war.”
“Standing Together” (
@omdimbeyachad
), a grassroots movement founded by Jewish and Palestinian activists in Israel, has been campaigning for peace and social
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Moreover, it ought to actively intervene in society in order to live up to its aspirations of contributing to a better future. His approach to critical theory remains just as relevant as ever.
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On this day 80 years ago, the Battle of Stalingrad ended, costing more than 700,000 lives. The battle marked a psychological turning point in World War II, which lasted for two more years. In the face of a strengthening right wing worldwide, these events should not be forgotten.
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A defeat worth celebrating: One minute past 23:00
#OnThisDay
in 1945, hostilities ceased after what was left of the German armed forces declared their unconditional surrender. This marked the end of World War II in Europe and with it the so-called “Third-Reich”.
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The workers united will never be defeated! ✊🚩
Wishing everyone a very happy and healthy International Workers' Day from all of as at the
@rosaluxstiftung
. May Day symbolizes internationalism and solidarity – and therefore undoubtedly belongs to us.
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Rosa Luxemburg is an icon of the socialist movement who died a hero’s death
#OnThisDay
in 1919. In today’s world of crisis, with mainstream social democracy collapsing and the far right on the rise, we could do with many more fighters like her.
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#OnThisDay
in 1952, Charlie Chaplin was denied re-entry to the United States after his first visit to the UK in 21 years. This marked the beginning of his exile from the US.
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Today, Brazilians will head to the polls for the second time in a month to elect their president. We recently spoke with Brazilian eco-socialist
@safbf
about Bolsonaro’s grim track record, the
@LulaOficial
opposition and lessons for the country’s Left.
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In 1921, he co-founded the Italian Communist Party and shortly thereafter became its leader. Gramsci died in 1937 after spending years in fascist prisons.
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German colonial history is once again the focus of serious historical and political debates – and not only on the Left. The Alternative für Deutschland is working hard to whitewash the crimes of German colonialism in parliament and in the universities.
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“What does it mean to be a good friend to
#Israel
?”
“Standing Together” (
@omdimbeyachad
), a grassroots movement founded by Jewish and Palestinian activists in Israel, has been campaigning for peace and social justice since 2016.
Its co-directors Rula Daood and Alon-Lee Green
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“Order reigns in Berlin” was the headline of a newspaper article by Rosa Luxemburg that appeared one day before her assassination on 15 January 1919. However, even two months after the start of the revolution, it was not her socialist order — but that of the revolution’s enemies.
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On this day in 1936, a coup against the Republican government led by nationalist officers marked the start of the Spanish Civil War. Ending three years later with Francisco Franco's victory, for opponents of Spanish fascism the brutal repression of democracy was only beginning.
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Happy birthday, Frida Kahlo! The revolutionary feminist and communist artist was born in Mexico City
#OnThisDay
in 1907.
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The arrest and indictment of prominent Marxist intellectual Boris Kagarlitsky last week points to a broader crackdown across Russia, as the state seeks to shut down the last vestiges of political opposition in the country.
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Join Lea Ypi, Robin D.G. Kelley, Michael Löwy, Frigga Haug, Radhika Desai, Drucilla Cornell, Peter Hudis, and many more on 4–5 March for "Rosa Luxemburg at 150: Revisiting Her Radical Life and Legacy", streaming on our Facebook page:
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Vincent Bevins’s 2020 book, “The Jakarta Method”, was widely praised as a groundbreaking history of the Cold War. Now available in German for the first time, we spoke with him about the West's global war on communism and Germany’s role in it.
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💥💥💥 The Last Seed, a documentary produced by the RLS, has already won nine awards as it travels the globe to shed light on the seed struggle in Africa. Keen to know more? Watch the trailer here:
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“Marxism remains the philosophy of our times because we have not gone beyond the circumstances which created it.”
The French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre died 43 years ago today. Sartre’s philosophy and political values can still inspire struggles for freedom today.
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Happy Birthday, Fritz Bauer! The German-Jewish judge was instrumental in bringing members of the Nazi regime to justice. On his initiative, the Auschwitz trials took place from 1963 onwards, an important impulse for coming to terms with the Holocaust in the old Federal Republic.
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“People are not rising up on their own, it’s just not happening. They’re tired, exhausted, beaten down. People are angry, but how to fight has to be taught, and that anger has to be channelled.” — Jane McAlevey (
@rsgexp
)
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Jane McAlevey (
@rsgexp
) has written four essential books on labour organizing and led countless successful campaigns. Recently, she told us why neither glossy photo-ops nor pseudo-radical slogans will be enough to win class battles in the New Gilded Age.
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“Pain, pleasure and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence.”
Revolutionary feminist and communist artist Frida Kahlo was born in Mexico City
#OnThisDay
in 1907.
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“The life of a single human being is worth more than all the property of the richest man on earth.”
Happy Birthday, Che Guevara! The Argentinian Marxist, born
#OnThisDay
in 1928, is an icon of the Cuban Revolution and one of the 20th century’s most influential revolutionaries.
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“If I want to die, I’ll die right here, right now, fightin’ you, if I want to die. You my enemy, not no Chinese, no Vietcong, no Japanese. You my opposer when I want freedom. You my opposer when I want justice. You my opposer when I want equality.”
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100 years ago, the German people rose up in the
#GermanRevolution
. Led by
#RosaLuxemburg
,
#KarlLiebknecht
and others, they fought for democracy and changed the country forever. Follow us for a daily chronicle of the revolution's events! …
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"What is the robbing of a bank compared with the founding of a bank?"
#BertoltBrecht
was born 124 years ago today. Through his works, the playwright continues to inspire radicals of all stripes 💭
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Happy birthday, Friedrich Engels! Karl Marx's closest comrade and co-thinker was born on this day in 1820.
"Nothing is more terrible than being constrained to do some one thing every day from morning until night against one's will."
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Today is
#InternationalRomaDay
. Although 8 April has been observed as a global day of action and commemoration since 1990, anti-Romanyism is still widespread today. Together, we strive for a society where discrimination and inequality have no chance!
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A new generation of African thinkers is using MMT to chart a path towards sovereign economic development on the continent. We spoke with
@KaiKodden
,
@MahaBenGadha
and
@nssylla
about their conference on African monetary sovereignty set to begin today.
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On 19 February 2020, nine people were shot dead in
#Hanau
. Other events like in
#Christchurch
show that far-right terror is by no means the exception. Today, we commemorate the victims and resolve to continue the fight against racist violence in Germany and around the world.
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Rosa Luxemburg was a radical, a rabble-rouser, and a revolutionary. We teamed up with
@eleanorkpenny
and
@novaramedia
to take a closer look at the incredible life and legacy of our namesake, “Red Rosa”. Watch the full video here:
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Today, Brazilians will either elect
@LulaOficial
as their new president or confirm incumbent right-wing populist Bolsonaro. At the
#IRGAC
conference,
@safbf
explained how Bolsonaro’s autocratic style of government is devastating climate and nature.
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“It’s not enough to say that socialism is better than capitalism”,
@safbf
argues. “We have to demonstrate why it would be a better system, and how we get there.”
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🗓️ TOMORROW, 5 SEPT | 19:00
Kohei Saito’s Capital in the Anthropocene was an unexpected success in Japan, selling over half a million copies. Join us for tomorrow’s German book launch! A live broadcast in English will be made available.
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“It’s not enough to say that socialism is better than capitalism”,
@safbf
argues. “We have to demonstrate why it would be a better system, and how we get there.”
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Today is
#InternationalWorkersDay
, when our class commemorates past victories and prepares for the battles to come. The
#Organizing4Power
training programme led by
@rsgexp
is all about fighting and winning those battles, so celebrate by signing up!
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