The Caucasus has always presented an incredibly complex situation to anyone that turned an eye to it. The vibrant cultures, various ethnicities, hundreds of big and small peoples, a plethora of languages and dialects and an incredibly long and detailed history can overwhelm even a Caucasian. Marxists, who are tasked…

What Georgian Marxists should strive for and how the current historical realities reshuffle our agenda — This piece was written as a general declaration of how Georgian Marxists must view the local situation, what should be prioritized and how we can ensure a better tomorrow. Note, that many of the things may be specific to Georgia, be similar to the most elementary theses of Marxism (the…

From “Soviet Abkhazia in Dates” compiled by L.M. Pritzker — This is a translation from the 1981 Russian-language Soviet book, “Советская Абхазия в датах: ХРОНОЛОГИЯ ВАЖНЕЙШИХ ПОЛИТИЧЕСКИХ , ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКИХ И КУЛЬТУРНЫХ СОБЫТИЙ” [Soviet Abkhazia in Dates: The Chronology of the Most Important Political, Economic and Cultural Events]. Part I: Year 1921 Sokhumi, 1981 Publishing House “Alashara” Reviewed by:

How thousands of Georgian students and workers opposed Khrushchev’s “secret speech” and foreign policy — On March 9, 1956, the anti-Marxist leadership of the Soviet Union drowned the rebellion of thousands of Georgian workers and youth in blood. The protesters came out against Party revisionism, of which Nikita Khrushchev was the figurehead. …

Declaration of solidarity and condemnation regarding the recent advances of Russian Imperialism and Western exploitation — With the trumpets of Russian capital sounding, the Imperial army has started to bomb Ukraine and invade into its Eastern parts. We have once again become witnesses of the Great Russian Chauvinism and its expansionist politics, which has always been ready to crush smaller and subjugated nations. Putin has declared…

From the 1912 Bulletin of the International Socialist Bureau (Brussels), №8, p.129. Based on Gesammelte Schriften, Volume 3, 1973, p. 57. — This resolution was introduced by Rosa Luxemburg at the meeting of the International Socialist Bureau on September 23, 1911 in Zurich; it passed. The International Socialist Bureau declares, that the detrimental rise in food prices, which engulfs the starved masses into frenzied protests in capitalist countries one by one, is firstly the result of the unscrupulous customs policy in most capitalist states, such as the criminal policy which most of all ensures the…

In this obituary for the 30th anniversary of Karl Marx’s passing, Rosa Luxemburg reviews the history of the socialist movement and summarizes the key ideas and conceptions of Marxist thought. — Published in Leipziger Volkszeitung №60, 14th March, 1913. It has been thirty years since the man, to whom the modern working class owes more than any mortal, closed his eyes for eternity. The work that Marx dedicated his life to can only properly be appreciated from a historical standpoint.

Translated and introduced by Rida Vaquas for Cosmonaut — Introduction It has long become a truism that Marxism failed to grasp the problem of nationalism, particularly as the second half of the twentieth century saw national revolutions flourish whilst socialist movements collapsed. As national identity cements itself as a political force in our times, the Communist Manifesto’s declaration that “national…

Here, we publish the first two speeches to the 1907 Fifth (London) Congress of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party that Rosa Luxemburg made on May 16th and May 25th respectively. Her third and final speech remains untranslated from the original German. — The fifth Congress of the Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party (RSDLP) was held in London from May 13 to June 1, 1907 (May 1–20 by the old Russian calendar). Luxemburg played a major role at the conference, where she sought to concretize the lessons of the 1905 Russian Revolution, especially the…