A panel discussion to celebrate 140 years since the birth of Rosa Luxemburg as well as the inauguration of the long-term Verso/Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung project The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg. The Complete Works will make her entire body of work available in English for the first time. This panel will focus on the importance of the works of Luxemburg for new generations—how, for example, her analysis and opposition to the logic of capital speaks especially powerfully to our time.

Please note: this event is part of Left Forum and you must register for the weekend conference in order to attend. The day, time and room allocation for this event is forthcoming.

Made possible with the support of the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung.

Suzi Weissman (chair) is Professor of Politics at Saint Mary's College of California. She sits on the editorial boards of Critique and Against the Current, and is host of KPFK's "Beneath the Surface." She is the author of Victor Serge: The Course is Set on Hope (Verso) and has edited Victor Serge: Russia Twenty Years After, and The Ideas of Victor Serge.

Longtime teacher and activist, Paul Le Blanc is series editor of The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg and co-editor of The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg and (with Scott McLemee) of C.L.R. James and Revolutionary Marxism and, with Helen C. Scott, Socialism or Barbarism.

Axel Fair-Schulz is an Assistant Professor of European History at the State University of New York at Potsdam. He has published on European intellectual, cultural, and political history during the 19th and 20th centuries. Among his recent books are Loyal Subversion: East Germany and its bildungsbürgerlich Marxist Intellectuals as well as German Scholars in Exile: New Studies in Intellectual History. In addition, he is on the editorial board of The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg.

Lea Haro is a Guest Lecturer in the School of History and Politics at the University of Stirling and Research Associate in the Centre for Socialist Theory and Movements at the University of Glasgow. She has written articles on Rosa Luxemburg, the theory of social fascism, as well as book chapters on the Spartacist uprising, and the failed German Revolution of 1923. She the editorial board of the Rosa Luxemburg Project, which will publish a 14-volume collection of Luxemburg's works from 2011. She is also Book Reviews Editor of Critique: Journal of Socialist Theory.

Annelies Laschitza, based in Germany, has produced a number of works focusing on the history of the labor movement in Germany at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th Century century. She has achieved worldwide recognition for editing of the Collected Letters of Luxemburg [in 6 volumes] as well as serving as co-editor of Luxemburg's Collected Writings [in German]. She worked as a consultant for Margarethe von Trotta's film "Rosa Luxemburg" [1986] and has produced an important [600-page] biography of Luxemburg, Full of Life, Despite Everything. Her work on Karl Liebknecht includes the book, The Liebknechts, Karl and Sophie: Politics and Family—the most comprehensive study of the life and work of Karl Liebknecht.

Essayist and critic Scott McLemee is on the editorial board of New Politics. With Paul Le Blanc he edited C.L.R. James and Revolutionary Marxism. His reviews, essays, and interviews have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Nation, Newsday, Bookforum, The Common Review, among numerous others. His review of The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg will appear late March 2011.