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The newest addition of the planned seventeen volumes of the writing of Rosa Luxemburg, including thousands of pages that have only recently been identified and have never been available in English, is a critical contribution to our understanding of her life and work.

Puerto Rican socialist Rafael Bernabe calls for a Green New Deal in Puerto Rico, to facilitate its economic and ecological reconstruction.

Robert Ovetz describes the significance of a new collection of Rosa Luxemburg's writings on revolution from 1906 to 1909, recently published in English.

Kevin B. Anderson — After a racist police murder, an uprising of France’s marginalized youth has targeted the state apparatus in an unprecedented ways, exposing the race/class faultlines of modern capitalism.

Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents six important new books on fungi, wheat, racism, building socialism and more.

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In thunder and lightning Michael Roberts celebrates Rosa Luxemburg’s outstanding contribution to Marxist political economy March 5 2021 was the 150th anniversary of the birth of Rosa Luxemburg - the great revolutionary socialist of the Polish-German labour movement. Luxemburg’s contribution to socialist ideas and to the struggle to replace capitalism is too manifold for a short article to do her justice, so I will not attempt to do a proper job here. Instead, I shall offer a few comments on...

John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review and a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. Brett Clark is associate editor of Monthly Review and a professor of sociology at the University of Utah. Hannah Holleman is a director of the Monthly Review Foundation and an associate professor of sociology at Amherst College. The “turn toward the indigenous” in social theory over the last couple of decades, associated with the critique of white settler colonialism, has reintroduced...

February 6, 2021 —  Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from John Riddells Marxist Essays and Commentary — The Communist International (or Comintern) was founded in Moscow in 1919, with the goal of helping to extend the socialist revolution that had taken place in Russia across Europe and around the world.   The Russian Communist (Bolshevik) party that had led in establishing Soviet power was respected in the International as a prime source of strategic and tacti...