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Every January, tens of thousands gather in Berlin to commemorate the murder of Rosa Luxemburg. But who was this remarkable Marxist activist and thinker? Our extensive dossier on her life and legacy is a great place to start learning more.
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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!
“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!
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! 
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.
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.
“What is the robbing of a bank compared with the founding of a bank?”
Happy Birthday, Bertolt Brecht!
Eric Hobsbawm, considered the greatest Marxist historian of the twentieth century, was born #OnThisDay in 1917.
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.
Happy birthday to the author of these lines, Antonio Gramsci!
“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!
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.
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.
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.
A brilliant writer, a trenchant social critic, a dedicated activist – Happy Birthday, James Baldwin!
"Yesterday we had 1,179 deaths. If we had a little bit more reasonable president right now, he would probably be mourning those deaths ." —
on the last episode of "Global Crisis – Global Solidarity". Watch the whole discussion here: youtube.com/watch?v=dVLl1L
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!
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for a couple of striking facts: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.
“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).
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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