Rosa Luxemburg Foundation

Rosa Luxemburg Foundation is an internationally operating, progressive non-profit institution for civic education affiliated with Germany’s “Die Linke” (Left Party). Active since 1990, the foundation has been committed to the analysis of social processes and developments worldwide. In cooperation with organizations around the globe, it works on democratic and social participation, empowerment of disadvantaged groups, alternatives for economic and social development, conflict prevention, and peaceful conflict resolution. Its international activities aim to provide civic education by means of academic analyses, public programs, and projects conducted together with partner institutions. In order to be able to mentor and coordinate these various projects, the foundation has established 17 regional offices around the world. The RLS has been granted special consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council in 2013.

Rosa Luxemburg Foundation structure

The Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung comprises:

• The General Assembly, which elects the Executive Board and Scientific Advisory Council,
• Currently over 170 full-time staff (including apprentices), 16 of which work in the 13 regional offices,
• More than 50 employees and local personnel in the Foundation’s international offices,
• Hundreds of volunteers who are active in the federal Foundation and the 16 state foundations on boards and advisory boards, as active members of local education organizations in the Rosa Luxemburg Clubs or in the Foundation’s 22 discussion groups,
• About 130 tutors,
• Over 800 active and over 1,000 former scholarship holders.

Executive Board

• Chair of the Executive Board: Dr. Dagmar Enkelmann Member of the German Parliament
• Deputy: Thomas Handel Member of the European Parliament
• Deputy: Dr. Sabine Reiner
• Executive Director: Dr. Florian Weis

Funding

The RLS, is funded by donations, membership fees and, in particular, government grants. Of these, it receives around € 47 million in 2015 (from the German Foreign Office (AA) € 1.6 million, from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) € 11.3 million from the Federal Ministry of the Interior, for Construction and Research) Heimat (BMI) € 11.0 million, from the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) € 24.2 million).

The chairman of the budget committee in the Bundestag, Gesine Lotzsch, defended the special treatment of the foundations. The opposition politician justifies this with the coalition agreement of the black-red government. "The coalition agreement has highlighted the importance of political foundations. This is followed by deeds. "Lötzsch was for a long time the deputy chairman of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, which is close to her party.

International

HEADQUARTERS, Berlin/Germany

Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, Franz-Mehring-Platz 1, 10243 Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany

• President: Dr. Dagmar Enkelmann,
• Executive Director: Dr. Florian Weis
• Director International Department: Dr. Boris Kanzleiter

NORTH AMERICA AND UNITED NATIONS, New York/USA

Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, Inc., 275 Madison Avenue, Suite 2114, New York, NY, 10016, United States of America

• Directors: Dr. Stefanie Ehmsen and Dr. Albert Scharenberg

MEXICO, CENTRAL AMERICA AND CUBA, Mexico City/Mexico

Fundacion Rosa Luxemburg, General Pedro Anaya 65, Col. Churubusco, Mexico, D.F. 04120, Mexico

• Director: Sandy El Berr

ANDEAN REGION, Quito/Ecuador

• Director: Dr. Karin Gabbert

Fundacion Rosa Luxemburg, Calle Miravalle N24-728 y Zaldumbide – La Floresta, Quito, Ecuador

SOUTHERN CONE AND BRAZIL, São Paulo/Brazil

• Director: Gerhard Dilger

Instituto Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, Rua Ferreira de Araujo, 36, Alto de Pinheiros, 05428-000 São Paulo – SP, Brasil

EUROPEAN UNION, Brussels/Belgium

• Director: Martin Schirdewan and Dr. Claus-Dieter Konig

Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, 11, Avenue Michel-Ange, 1000 Brussels, Belgium

EAST-CENTRAL EUROPE, Warsaw/Poland

• Director: Dr. Joanna Gwiazdecka

Fundacja im. Róży Luksemburg, ul. Poznańska 16/3, 00-680 Warszawa, Poland

SOUTHEAST EUROPE, Belgrade/Serbia

• Director: Krunoslav Stojakovic

Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Predstavništvo, Beograd, Gospodar Jevremova 47, 11000 Belgrad, Serbia

RUSSIA, CENTRAL ASIA AND CAUCASUS, Moscow/Russia

• Director: Kerstin Kaiser

Filial Fonda Rozy Ljuksemburg v Rossijskoj Federacii, Prospekt Vernadskogo 84, 2/2003(2), 119606 Moskau, Russia

ISRAEL, Tel Aviv

• Director: Tsafrir Cohen, Rosa-Luxemburg-Foundation, Address: Rothschild Blvd. 11, Tel Aviv-Yafo – P.O.B. 536 Tel Aviv-Yafo 61004, Israel

PALESTINE, Ramallah

• Director: Ute Beuck, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Palestine Office, Mub’adeen St., Ramallah/Al Bireh, Palestine

NORTH AFRICA, Tunis/Tunisia

• Director: Ivesa Lubbern, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Tunisia, 23 Avenue Jugurtha, Mutuelle Ville, Tunis, Tunisia

WEST AFRICA, Dakar/Senegal

• Director: Dr. Armin Osmanovic, Fondation Rosa Luxemburg, P.O. Box: B.P. 25013, Dakar – Fann, Senegal

EAST AFRICA, Dar Es Salaam/Tanzania

• Director: Dorothee Braun, Fondation Rosa Luxemburg, 47, Ndovu Road, Mikocheni B, P.O. Box 105527, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

SOUTHERN AFRICA, Johannesburg/South Africa

• Director: Jorn-Jan Leidecker, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, 237 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parktown North, Johannesburg 2193, Republic South Africa

EAST ASIA, Beijing/China

• Director: Jan Turowski, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Apt. 01-2-11 Sanlitun Diplomatic Compound (North Yard), Sanlitun Dongsanjie, Chaoyang District, 100600 Beijing, PR of China

SOUTHEAST ASIA, Hanoi/Vietnam

Director: Liliane Danso-Dahmen, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Address: 72 Xuan Dieu, Tay Ho District, Hanoi, Vietnam

SOUTH ASIA, New Delhi/India

• Director: Stefan Mentschel, Observer Research Foundation – Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, C-15, 2nd Floor, ‹Harrison Chamber›, Safdarjung, Development Area (Market), 110 016 New Delhi, India.

Gender Equity Webinar

Screen shot of DSA/Die Linke/Gender Equity/Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Webinar on January 15, 2022 Top from Left: Kirsten Adkerson, DSA, Antje Schivatschev, Bottom from Left: DSA, Andreas Gunther

Kirsten Adkerson "helped facilitate" a "Gender Equity Webinar" sponsored by the Feminist Caucus, the Red Caucus, and the International Committee of DSA on January 15, 2022.

Guests were:

• Antje Schivatschev, national coordinator of the Gender Equity office of Die LINKE and
• Andreas Gunther, director of the New York office of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation.