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Nottingham
Nottingham AWL Educational
Rosa Luxemburg and the Mass Strike
7.30pm in the International Community Centre, Mansfield Road, Nottingham
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How important is the tactic of the general strike for working-class revolution? Do general strikes automatically lead to potential seizures of power by workers' organisations? A veteran of workers' struggle in Poland and Germany, Rosa Luxmeburg developed innovative socialist strategy on the use of the general strike. What can we learn from it today?
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Lucas Arms, 245a Gray's Inn Road, London
A look at the life and politics of Rosa Luxemburg, the Polish-born revolutionary who died at the hands of right-wing forces after a failed uprising in 1919.
Suggested reading
The Russian Revolution (especially first and last chapters)
Women’s Suffrage and the Class Stuggle
Reform or Revolution (especially chapter on “Capitalism and the State”)
What does the Spartacus League want
Download the full autumn-winter 2008-9 programme of meetings for the Discussion Group, here:
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By Ed Maltby
Discussion is growing in the British labour movement about shifting the public sector pensions battle from a string of “demonstration strikes”, with long gaps in between, to a more active and self-controlling battle. Elsewhere in Europe, working-class resistance is already developing beyond the stage of occasional set-piece one-day strikes.
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Extract from Rosa Luxemburg: 'The Mass Strike, The Political Party and the Trade Unions', Section VIII. Need for United Action of Trade Unions and Social Democracy
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The recent fights sparked by the economic crisis have inspired some sections of the left to make calls for a general strike.
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Rosie Woods reviews The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg, published in March 2011 by Verso Books.
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In the context of the fight for the welfare state, how do struggles for reforms intersect with the goal of revolutionary socialism?
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Rosa Luxemburg's analysis of the impact of British imperialism in South Africa.
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'Reform and Revolution' is one of Rosa Luxemburg's best-known works, her major contribution to the debate between Marxists and 'revisionists' at the turn of the century in Germany. In this previously untranslated article, which is effect an appandix to 'Reform and Revolution', she takes issue with the praise of old-style British trade unionism by the leading German revisionist Eduard Bernstien. Bernstien had lived in Britian for some years, and based many of his ideas on the experience of the British labour movement at the end of the 19th century...
