Thousands of communists and socialists participated in this year’s massive “Luxemburg Liebknecht Lenin” (LLL) protest in Berlin. Drawing participants from across the country, the event culminates in a march to the “Cemetery of Socialists” in the capital, commemorating the legacies of Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, and Vladimir Lenin.

The protesters were brutally attacked by the police, resulting in serious injuries and arrests. Paramedics had to resuscitate an older man with an AED after police repeatedly hit him on the head. Four other participants are reportedly hospitalized, including two minors.

The organizers of the LLL protest stated, “Our struggle is against imperialist wars, against the danger of a worldwide inferno destroying civilization. [...] Germany must never again become capable of war, and German tanks should never again fire on Russians.”

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I want to affect people like a clap of thunder, to inflame their minds not by speechifying but with the breadth of my vision, the strength of my conviction and the power of my expression.

Rosa Luxemburg
Letter to Leo Jogiches (1899)

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Lay down your weapons, you soldiers at the front. Lay down your tools, you workers at home. Do not let yourselves be deceived any longer by your rulers, the lip patriots, and the munitions profiteers. Rise with power and seize the reins of government. Yours is the force. To you belongs the right to rule. Answer the call for freedom and win your own war for liberty.

Call for Revolution (1918)

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"As a response to attackers, let’s strengthen the capacity of chemical defense protection of the Soviet Union. The chemical industry is the foundation of chemical protection defense.", soviet poster, 1932

Porcelain figurine "V.I. Lenin and N.K. Krupskaya. The Last Days", by sculptor Evgeniya Ilyinichna Gatilova, 1960s

"Selections from the works of Lenin in six volumes. Theory, when it reaches the masses, becomes a material force.", advertising poster, 1924

"Message. Lenin and Krupskaya in Shushenskoye", painting by Mikhail Ivanovich Semyonov, 1971

Vladimir Lenin bust, sculpture by Naoum Aronson, 1933

"V.I. Lenin with N.K. Krupskaya at the opening of the first rural power station in the village of Kashino. November 14, 1920", painting by Nikolay Sysoev, 1969

“The work of an animal breeder is honorable work!”, soviet poster, 1950

"Our banner is Leninism!", soviet poster, 1964

"Electric Welder", painting by Evgeny Mikhailovich Kharitonenko, 1953

Soviet poster "Let's turn deserts into blooming gardens!", 1952

Successful struggle against exploitation requires that the proletariat be free of nationalism, and be absolutely neutral, so to speak, in the fight for supremacy that is going on among the bourgeoisie of the various nations.

Vladimir Lenin
The Right of Nations to Self-Determination