Rosa Luxemburg Foundation

Office in Greece

The aim of Rosa Luxemburg Foundation activities in Greece is the analysis of the dramatic impact that neoliberal policies regarding the crisis has brought to Greek society, the creation of a broad and open public sphere and the support of the Greek comrades in their fight against this policies. Central point to this work is the exchange of experiences between Germans and Greeks.

Activity sections

Since mid-2012 the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation has an Office in Athens to coordinated this work.

In this context the following issues are addressed:

• The crisis and the left approach for a solution.
• The rise of neo-Nazism in Greece and the fight against it.
• The study of the impact of privatization on democracy and participation.
• The exchange of experience between local politicians, activists or public and social institutions to strengthen and revitalize the community.
• Improving the situation of immigrants within the crisis of Europe.

As part of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation’s activities that are organized in Greece, are Greek unionists’, politicians’ and experts’ visits in Germany where lectures are given and informative discussions are carried out, and cultural-political projects are supported aiming to renewing social development.

Germany

The Rosa Luxemburg Foundation is one of the largest political education institutions in Germany today and sees itself as part of the intellectual current of democratic socialism. The foundation evolved from a small political group, “Social Analysis and Political Education Association“, founded in 1990 in Berlin into a nationwide political education organisation, a discussion forum for critical thought and political alternatives as well a research facility for progressive social analysis.

Forming the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation are:

• The general and sustaining members of the association and the executive board members with Dagmar Enkelmann serving as chairwoman and Dr. Florian Weis as chief executive officer
• Academic scholars and scientists in advisory boards and as authors of our publications, scholarship recipients; liaison professors and hundreds of volunteers
• More than 100 employees that work in either the Academy of political Education, the Centre for International Communication and Collaboration, the “Studienwerk” (organisation providing social, financial and cultural support services to students in Germany), the Institute for Social Analysis, the Archive of Democratic Socialism or areas of public relations, bookkeeping or finances

In 1996 the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation was officially recognised as a nationwide affiliated trust of the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS), presently known as “DIE LINKE “ (The Left). As such it works closely with DIE LINKE affiliated state foundations and associations nationwide.

Goals

The Rosa Luxemburg Foundation aims to:

• Organise political education and disseminate knowledge about social relations in a globalized, unjust and hostile world
• Provide a venue for critical analysis of current capitalism;  act as a hub for programmatic discussions about a modern democratic socialism, act as a socialistic think-tank for political alternatives
• Be a forum in Germany and internationally that supports dialogue between left-socialistic powers, socialistic movements and organisations, left-minded intellectuals and non-governmental organisations
• Grant funding to young scholars via undergraduate and postgraduate scholarships
• Give impulses to self-defining socialistic political activities and support commitment to peace and international understanding for a socially just and solidary union