“As such so long as imperialistic world policies determine and regulate the inner and other outer life of the nation, there can be no ‘national self-determination’ either in war or peace. “(Rosa Luxemburg, The Crisis of German Social...
In remarking upon the international legal status of lands acquired by the British Empire, John Westlake, in many ways the quintessential Victorian jurist, declared India to be ‘a peculiar case of conquest, operating by assumption and acquiescence’.[1] He...
Today, we face the choice exactly as Friedrich Engels foresaw it a generation ago: either the triumph of imperialism and the collapse of all civilization as in ancient Rome, depopulation, desolation, degeneration – a great cemetery. Or the victory of socialism, that...
One of Rosa Luxemburg’s great contributions was her insistence that capitalism, even beyond its prehistory, remains far from the realm of peaceful competition. In fact she famously argued the contrary; that violence only grows with the development of global...
What might Rosa Luxemburg’s thinking help us see about humanitarian efforts? What might it reveal for our understanding of the work of international law in both restraining and allowing organised violence, as well as responding to its humanitarian consequences? Within...
Birutė Nomeda Stankūnienė, “Emptiness” (courtesy of the artist) Back in September, when the United Kingdom was getting used to a new Prime Minister, a seemingly minor piece of news went unnoticed by the public at large. ‘An obscure UN agency okayed the first...
