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"Social change requires a reflective confrontation with today's capitalist society"

The Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung (RLS, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation) is one of the six major political foundations in Germany, tasked primarily with conducting political education both at home and abroad. The RLS is closely linked to Die Linke, a democratic socialist party in the German parliament. The Organize! Movement Meetup is specifically supported and funded by the Brussels Office of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung.

Since its founding in 1990, the RLS’s work has adhered to the legacy of its namesake, German socialist leader Rosa Luxemburg, and stands for democratic socialism with an unwavering internationalist focus. The Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung is committed to a radical perspective emphasizing public awareness, education, and social critique. It stands in the tradition of the workers’ and women’s movements, as well as anti-fascism and anti-racism.

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The Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung is committed to a radical perspective emphasizing public awareness, education, and social critique.”

The RLS promotes a critical analysis of society and fosters networks of emancipatory political, social, and cultural initiatives across Germany. Internationally, it participates in cooperative development projects and advocates for dialogue between the Global North and South conducted on equal footing. With the help of the Historical Centre for Democratic Socialism, the RLS also documents significant historical events and achievements from across the political Left.

    Like other political foundations, the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung seeks to develop and expand the concept of political education by emphasizing a critical analysis of society as its central task, further underlined by its namesake.

    The RosaLuxemburg-Stiftung aims to:

    • Organize political education and disseminate information on the social relations shaping our globalized, unjust, and hostile world
    • Provide a venue for critical analysis of contemporary capitalism while serving as both a hub for programmatic discussions around a modern conception of democratic socialism and a socialist think tank generating political alternatives
    • Serve as a forum in Germany and abroad fostering dialogue between socialist forces, movements, and organizations, left-minded intellectuals, and non-governmental organizations
    • Grant funding to young scholars via undergraduate and doctoral scholarships
    • Provide impulses and inspiration for independent socialist political action and support initiatives for peace and international understanding towards a socially just and solidary world

    Based on the firm belief that social change requires a reflective confrontation with today’s capitalist society as a whole, the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung strives to develop alternative concepts and approaches for a comprehensive process of social transformation enabling the creation of a more united and just society. Education and training in democratic socialist politics, analysis, information, and policy advice are therefore the foundation’s core tasks, which the foundation pursues at the regional, national, and international levels.

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