Rosa Luxemburg Foundation

07/10/2026

Three years ago today, the Islamist terrorist organization Hamas launched a coordinated large-scale attack on southern Israel.

More than 1,200 people were killed, including around 800 civilians and 36 children. More than 4,000 people were injured, and 251 were taken hostage and abducted to the Gaza Strip.

The attack also marked the beginning of the genocide in Gaza carried out by the Israeli government and military.

Gil Shohat, West Asia Programme Manager at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in Berlin, headed the Foundation’s Israel Office in Tel Aviv from March 2023 to August 2026.

In an interview with neues deutschland, he reflects on his time in Israel, October 7 and the trauma it caused, as well as the brutalization and militarization of Israeli society, the dehumanization of Palestinians, the role of the media, the upcoming parliamentary elections, and the importance of Jewish-Palestinian alliances on the ground: https://www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/55300/israels-logic-of-violence-cant-be-overcome-from-within

04/10/2026

90 years ago, thousands of Londoners took to the streets to stop Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists from marching through the East End.

On 4 October 1936, around 3,000 members of the BUF gathered near the Tower of London. Known as the “Blackshirts” for their uniforms, Mosley’s fascist movement modelled itself partly on Mussolini’s Fascists in Italy. They planned to march through Whitechapel, home to a large Jewish community. Amid poverty and economic insecurity, the BUF sought support by scapegoating Jewish residents for the area’s problems.

But the fascists never made it into Whitechapel. Jewish residents, Irish dock workers, communists, socialists, trade unionists and other East Enders came together to block their route. Barricades made from furniture, mattresses and other materials went up around Cable Street. Protesters clashed with police attempting to clear a path for the Blackshirts.

Eventually, the police called off the march and Mosley’s fascists were forced to turn back.

The Battle of Cable Street became a defining moment in British anti-fascist history. Some of those who resisted Mosley would go on to join the International Brigades fighting Franco in Spain.

01/10/2026

What happens when organized crime is treated as terrorism?

The US has designated Brazil’s two largest criminal groups, PCC and Comando Vermelho, as terrorist organizations. Researcher Ana Penido argues that the problem lies not in recognizing the scale and consequence of organized crime, but in choosing the appropriate tools to tackle it.

In our interview, she discusses the shift from public security to a logic of war, US influence on Latin American security policies, and the consequences for civil rights and national sovereignty: https://www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/55234/criminals-or-terrorists-us-security-policy-in-latin-america

25/09/2026

Europe wants to become an 'AI continent' and strengthen its digital sovereignty. But as investment in AI infrastructure accelerates, existing technological and economic dependencies may take on new forms.

Sandra Sieron looks beyond AI models to the global supply chains behind them, from chips, cloud computing and critical minerals to energy and labour. The article also examines the EU’s AI Act and deregulation agenda, initiatives such as InvestAI, the growing role of private capital, and the social and ecological costs that risk being sidelined in the race for AI innovation.

Read the full article now: https://www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/55228/artificial-intelligence-at-any-cost

24/09/2026

Poland’s political right is fragmenting. P*S is losing its long-held dominance as Confederation gains younger voters, new rivals emerge, and an internal succession battle intensifies ahead of the 2027 parliamentary election.

What could this reshaping of Poland’s right mean for P*S – and for the left? Natalia Sawka looks at the parties, personalities and voter shifts driving the change. Read now:

Poland’s P*S splits as rival groups vie for power. Will divisions on the right strengthen the left?

24/09/2026

With 25.7%, Die Linke just won its best-ever result in Berlin on a platform of rent caps and housing expropriation, even as the AfD hit record highs in Saxony-Anhalt and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

What lessons can the left learn from last Sunday's elections? And will Die Linke be able to implement their programme in Berlin?

👉 Read the full article now: https://www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/55260/die-linke-takes-berlin-as-the-afd-sweeps-east-germany

23/09/2026

For Rosa Luxemburg, war was difficult to avoid in the imperialist stage of capitalist modernity. Yet this did not stop her from fighting against the threat of war, even at the cost of imprisonment. She opposed violence and war not only on ethical grounds, but also as a revolutionary.

Luxemburg linked the growing militarization of the great powers to the expansion of the world economy and intensifying competition on the world market. She later developed this argument further in 'The Accumulation of Capital' (1913): as capitalism expanded into ever more regions, competition among the major powers intensified, making war increasingly likely.

Explore more of Rosa Luxemburg’s political positions, a growing collection of her letters and writings, as well as articles, videos and audio recordings by and about her: https://rosaluxemburg.org/

22/09/2026

“Prevent militarization.”

At the über Festival, we spoke with scholar Don Kalb, Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen and a leading Marxist voice in the discipline.

Kalb warns that the combination of increasingly authoritarian forms of national capitalism and growing militarization threatens both an ecological transition and the possibility of a more equal and just world.

For him, preventing war and further militarization is therefore one of the most urgent political tasks of our time.

Want to read more from Don Kalb? His book Backlash: The Global Rise of the Radical Right, co-edited with Walden Bello and supported by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, is available open access.

21/09/2026

he global order is shifting. As US hegemony gives way to a more fragmented, multipolar world, geopolitical rivalry, rearmament and the struggle over infrastructures, trade routes and supply chains are reshaping the meaning of security.

Harald Wolf outlines what a left-wing peace policy could look like in this new reality, discussing non-offensive defence, societal resilience, the role of BRICS, European sovereignty and the need to strengthen multilateral institutions.

Read the full article now: https://www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/55240/security-in-a-multipolar-world-a-peace-policy-for-the-left

18/09/2026

AI, drones and defence start-ups are reshaping warfare, bringing Silicon Valley’s logic of speed and disruption to the battlefield. But what happens when technologies that can make mistakes are used for targeting and life-and-death decisions?

Jutta Weber examines the booming defence-tech industry, autonomous weapons, venture capital and lobbying, technological solutionism, and the implications of AI warfare for democratic oversight and human control.

Read the full article now: https://www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/55230/drones-and-democracy-inside-the-ai-arms-race