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  •  | Donald Trump and Narendra Modi during a meeting in New Delhi February 2020 Photo IMAGO  Pradeep Gaur Mint | MR Online

    Disaster Nationalism is the new fascism

    Originally published: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung on December 6, 2024 (more by Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung)  |

    Richard Seymour on how crisis and catastrophe are feeding the far-right surge.

  •  | Rede von PTB Präsident Raoul Hedebouw am 1 Mai 2024 in Brüssel Belgien | MR Online

    The inexorable rise of the Belgian Workers’ Party

    Originally published: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung on May 10, 2024 by Nico Biver (more by Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung)  | (Posted May 22, 2024)

    European Parliament elections in Belgium are once again taking place in the shadow of national parliamentary and regional elections. One could, therefore, expect similar results in both sets of polls.

  •  | climate | MR Online

    Reflections on the crisis of the political subject in a warming planet

    Originally published: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung on March 27, 2024 by Camila Barragán (more by Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung)  | (Posted Mar 30, 2024)

    Just as unprecedented peak temperatures were being recorded in several cities around the world, organized communities in Latin America were mobilizing against extractivism, as well as in favour of environmental protection and the right to protest in its defence.

  •  | Athletes march in a parade dedicated to the sixty third anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution 7 November 1989 The banner reads Let the name and exploits of the great Lenin live for centuries Photo IMAGO  ITAR TASS | MR Online

    Seven reasons not to leave Lenin to our enemies

    Originally published: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung on January 21, 2024 by Michael Brie (more by Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung)  | (Posted Mar 12, 2024)

    The Left has tossed Lenin’s corpse to the victors of history—both the Stalinists and their liberal opponents.

  •  | The Dakar Declaration | MR Online

    The Dakar Declaration

    Originally published: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung on December 15, 2022 by African Economic and Monetary Sovereignty Initiative (more by Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung)  | (Posted Jan 14, 2023)

    Adopted in October 2022 at the Museum of Black Civilizations, Dakar, Senegal.

  •  | Anti colonial protest statue of King Lepold II in Brussels June 2020 | MR Online

    Anticolonialism

    Originally published: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung on February 2022 (more by Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung)  |

    A. is based on recognition of the right of all peoples to dispose of an independent state.

  •  | Perhaps the most well known edition of Capital the three blue volumes of the Marx Engels Werke issued by Karl Dietz Verlag in Berlin Photo FlickrAchim vom Tal | MR Online

    ‘Das Kapital’ in Kiswahili

    Originally published: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung on January 2022 by Joachim Mwami and Loren Balhorn (more by Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung)  | (Posted Jan 28, 2022)

    Joachim Mwami on translating Marx—and Marxism—into the vocabulary of East Africa

  •  | Members of the Talat movement protest in Haifa 2019 | MR Online

    Feminist protests in Palestine

    Originally published: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung on August 3, 2021 by Fidaa Al Zaanin (more by Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung)  | (Posted Aug 11, 2021)

    Mapping the fight for women’s liberation in Gaza and the West Bank.

  •  | Statue of Karl Marx | MR Online

    K is for Karl (Episode 4)

    Originally published: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung on May 7, 2018 by Paul Mason (more by Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung)  | (Posted May 08, 2018)

    In the fourth episode of K is for Karl, Paul Mason travels to Manchester, the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution. Here, Mason shows us how the use of human labour and the development of machinery brought about contemporary capitalism.

  •  | Cape Town Water | MR Online

    Notes from the future

    Originally published: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung on March 8, 2018 (more by Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung)  | (Posted Mar 14, 2018)

    What’s happening in Cape Town now might soon happen to many places in the world. To prevent socio-ecological crises like this we need to manage our resources more rationally and collectively.

  •  | MLK Blvd and Malcom X Blvd | MR Online

    Bill Fletcher Jr. on Black Marxism

    Originally published: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung on January 11, 2018 (more by Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung)  |

    Veteran labor activist Bill Fletcher jr. talks about how capitalism is based on the slave trade and colonialism, the Black contribution to Marxism, and the need to organize.

Monthly Review Essays

  • US Imperialism in Crisis: Opportunities and Challenges to a Global Community with a Shared Future
    Sam-Kee Cheng  | A late 1940s Soviet poster showing a US military service member lounging on top of a German factory smoking a cigar The text beneath reads DER DOLLARIMPERIALISMUS dollar imperialism | MR Online

    1. Introduction The predominance of US economic, political and military power in the world was established at the end of the Second World War.1 With just 6.3 percent of global population, the United States held about 50 percent of the world wealth in 1948. As the only power which had used nuclear weapons on civilian […]

Lost & Found

  • Journalism, democracy, … and class struggle
    Robert W. McChesney  | Bob McChesney on Saving Journalism | MR Online

    Our job is to make media reform part of our broader struggle for democracy, social justice, and, dare we say it, socialism.

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