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Analyses, Perspectives and Opinions
RLS Southeast Asia regularly publishes political analyses and working papers on current and relevant topics from the Mekong Region. Together with our partners, we shed light on different opinions and introduce perspectives on pressing social and ecological questions and challenges. The publications are categorized according to topics and countries and can be selected using the links below.
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Germany, Social Justice
A Window of Opportunity for Leftist Politics?
Our goal in this text is not to make any assessments about virology or epidemiology. There are more than enough of those at the moment and we do not claim to be specialists in those fields. Like many others, we are trying to get our bearings in the whirlwind of information, and we invest our trust in the Robert Koch Institute more than in the cooked-up opinions of loudmouth know-it-alls. We are not of the opinion that the German federal and state governments are actors who have simply been waiting to impose authoritarian measures.
Germany, Social Justice
Far-right terrorism in Germany: A persistent and growing threat
Loren Balhorn sat down with Friedrich Burschel, the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung’s in-house expert on far-right extremism and a long-time observer of how the German state deals with neo-Nazis, to get a better understanding of how far-right violence in modern Germany has grown in recent years and what, if anything, can be done about it.
Read more … Far-right terrorism in Germany: A persistent and growing threat
Germany, Social Justice, Social-ecological transformation
Socialism for Future
Do you want socialism and the future? How can we still talk about socialism in these dystopian times? And how to fall silent upon this? Capitalism is devouring our future—while the crises of our time are literally heating up, it appears that their resolution is all the more absent.
Germany, Vietnam
How Arrogance Calls Development into Question
Disbelief, horror, astonishment—these days, when there are reports on the Vietnamese news about how Europe is handling the COVID-19 pandemic, many people are literally no longer able to understand the world.
Germany, Political Analysis, Social Justice, Social-ecological transformation
Climate before capitalism - For a Social and Ecological System Change
Saving the Climate, not Capitalism - For a Social and Ecological System Change
By Bernd Riexinger and Lorenz Gösta Beutin
Read more … Climate before capitalism - For a Social and Ecological System Change
Germany, Political Analysis
The State of the Left Party in Germany and Current Challenges
Originally a lecture given as part of a political dialogue between a delegation of the Left Party and the Communist Party of Vietnam held in November 2018 and facilitated by the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung.
Read more … The State of the Left Party in Germany and Current Challenges
Germany, Social Justice
Social Reproduction, social security and crisis-related developments: Feminist Perspectives regarding Europe's neoliberal restructuring
The article of Katharina Puhl, researcher for feminist sociology and capitalism analysis at RLS Berlin, will explore risks and challenges for social security policies and politics with regard to gender-sensitive effects and outcomes during crisis-related austerity politics in German context, framed by European politics.
Cambodia, Germany, Political Analysis, Social Justice, Vietnam
Communal Foreign Policy: A Tool for Achieving Target Goals and for the Progression of Social Equality in the Global South and Global North
In his working paper the author Mr Khai Phung is aiming to introduce the concept of district partnerships as a tool of communal foreign policy.