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The Rosa Luxemburg Foundation produces a wide range of studies in the context of elections: election night reports on important state, federal, and European elections, and analysis of programmes, campaigns, and results worldwide, particularly with regard to left-wing parties and governments.

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Trump’s Empire of Oligarchy

: Page

This time around, Trump and his allies seek to consolidate their power in a more fundamental way.

Europe: Ruin or Renewal?

: Dossier

Fuelled by growing economic hardships and fears about the future of the continent, an alarming drift…

Czechia’s Rightward March

: Analysis 20.01.2026

Andrej Babiš is forging an alliance with the far right

Big Stakes in the Big Apple

: Analysis 12.01.2026

What 2026 will mean for Zohran Mamdani and his agenda

Trump’s Ineffectual Opposition

: Analysis 12.01.2026

After losing the election, the Democrats simply carried on as they had before — now, only the Left…

Whose Party Is It?

: Analysis 08.01.2026

The tumultuous founding of Your Party raises fundamental questions about socialist strategy in the…

Who Is José Antonio Kast?

: Comment 18.12.2025

Chile’s new president is, among other things, an admirer of Augusto Pinochet’s military dictatorship

Claudia Sheinbaum Keeps On Winning

: Analysis 17.12.2025

Mexico’s president has done almost everything right in her first year in office

Campaigning in the Shadow of Unrest

: Analysis 16.12.2025

The result of Uganda’s upcoming election is a foregone conclusion. But what happens after?

“It’s Morally Depraved”

: Interview 12.11.2025

Die Linke MP Cansın Köktürk on the German government’s cuts to the welfare state

Is Chile About to Veer to the Right?

: Analysis 07.11.2025

The country’s left-wing minority government faces potential defeat in the upcoming elections

Socialism in the USA

: Studies 11/2025

A historical comparison of the Debsian Socialist Party of America and the new Democratic Socialists…

Zohran Mamdani Is New York’s New Socialist Mayor

: Comment 05.11.2025

A member of the Democratic Socialists of America is set to govern the largest city in the US

Does Saxony-Anhalt Show Germany’s Future?

: Analysis 04.11.2025

State parliamentary elections next year could see the far right become the dominant political force

Neoliberalism Returns to Bolivia

: Analysis 08.10.2025

The upcoming run-off election will see voters choose between two right-wing platforms

Fear Was the Real Winner in Moldova’s Elections

: Analysis 02.10.2025

With geopolitical concerns dominating national politics, substantive debate and meaningful…

How Austerity Boosts the Alternative für Deutschland

: Analysis 01.10.2025

A radicalized conservatism in power is encouraging the continued rise of the far right

Guns or Butter?

: Essay 01.10.2025

How the German government is trying to reboot the economy with military spending

Germany’s Welfare State Is Under Attack

: Analysis 29.09.2025

Die Linke co-chair Ines Schwerdtner on the rearmament budget and the end of the German economic…

Nepal’s Gen Z Protests Struck a Nerve

: Analysis 26.09.2025

How the youth uprising sparked a profound political crisis in the Himalayan nation

The Principle of Hope and the Future of Die Linke

: Essay 26.08.2025

How the German Left can catalyse broader alliances for social and ecological transformation

The Dutch Left Is Still Adrift

: Analysis 11.08.2025

With general elections only months away, the Left in the Netherlands is stuck in a rut

The Art of Command

: Analysis 29.07.2025

How Uganda’s General Muhoozi is adopting the Donald Trump approach to power

Tanzania on the Road to Dictatorship?

: Analysis 17.07.2025

Facing an election for the first time this autumn, President Samia Hassan has grown increasingly…

We Need a Totally Different Europe

: Comment 11.07.2025

Peter Mertens on why only the European working class can change Europe

A Socialist Mayor for New York?

: Analysis 01.07.2025

Zohran Mamdani’s primary win is widening the political horizon for the US Left

The Kurdish Question Needs a Political, Not a Military Solution

: Interview 18.06.2025

Fayik Yagizay of the People’s Equality and Democracy Party on the peace process in Turkey, the…

Poland Shifts to the Right

: Analysis 06.06.2025

On the consequences of Karol Nawrocki’s victory in the presidential election

Alice Weidel: Xiaohongshu Star

: Analysis 06.06.2025

How the German far right is finding new fans on Chinese social media

Reform UK: On the Way to Downing Street?

: Analysis 05.06.2025

Millionaire populist Nigel Farage’s latest foray into politics looks set to unseat the traditional…

Is Albania on the Fast Track to One-Party Rule?

: Analysis 30.05.2025

A decade of election rigging, corruption, and patronage politics have effectively killed political…

Anti-Communism Won the Romanian Presidential Elections

: Analysis 21.05.2025

The far right may have lost on Sunday, but neoliberal extremism continues to set the agenda