Upcoming events
12 December 2024 – LEA Online Meeting – Discussion on eco-socialist strategies
Ongoing LEA online meetings
9 January 2025 – discussion topic tba
- Meetings are generally held online every other week on Thursday starting at 7 pm – every second meeting is held as a public meeting including a discussion topic.
- We will be happy to send dial-in details via email if you are interested: Write us at hello@join-lea.org
Recommended events
Working group “Gesellschaftskritik” – every third Monday of the month – all details here.
Past events
29 Nov – 1 Dec 2025 | LEA offsite workshop in Berlin
4 – 7 July, 2024 | LEA offsite workshop in Leipzig
After lengthy debates on the war in Gaza, engaging with left-wing voices from the region, studying literature, and several failed attempts to develop a joint LEA statement, we made significant progress at our in-person meeting on Friday. A LEA paper on the matter should be ready before the anniversary of the Hamas massacre on October 7, 2024.
On Saturday, we studied various guidelines for dealing with sexism and sexualized violence and held a difficult discussion with the goal of developing a procedure for ourselves and becoming operational if necessary.
After departing from Leipzig and attending a rooftop party in Berlin, we evaluated our activism over the past 12 months in the Tesla-den-Hahn-abdrehen alliance on Sunday and discussed medium-term perspectives in this struggle.
Finally, we focused on further future priorities, the balance between theory and practice, as well as the priorities and needs of our members at LEA.
18 – 21 April, 2024 | LEA offsite workshop in Berlin
Given the current events, the global resurgence of antisemitism, even within parts of the left, and our own ongoing discussion, we began our meeting with a tour of the New Synagogue Berlin – Centrum Judaicum. Until Saturday evening, we critically engaged with communal self-governance in theory, practice, and history (M. Bookchin, Global Modules/P.M., Marinaleda/Andalusia, Red Vienna) and worked on applications today. On Sunday, befriended comrades presented artistic designs, through which we discussed suitable left-wing visual languages and design principles. Finally, we discussed how to onboard new group members, the communication culture we cultivate within the group, and which topics and areas of action we want to focus on next.
8 February 2024 | ONLINE
Theory and examples of council structures
14 December 2023 | ONLINE
LEA online meeting – discussion topic: „A brief history of the Middle East Conflict“
5 December 2023 | BERLIN
The fight for Berlin’s drinking water – Tesla’s Gigafactory in Grünheide and the water crisis; Lecture and discussion in Berlin (Helle Panke, held in German)
9 December 2023 | GRÜNHEIDE, BRANDENBURG
Blue Ribbon campaign against Tesla – Stand with us to protect the endangered forest and take a stand against the expansion of the Tesla Gigafactory in Grünheide (11am at S-Bahn station Fangschleuse, reachable via RE1 from Ostkreuz) – all details here
November 24 – 26, 2023 | LEA offsite workshop in Potsdam
On Friday we started with a city tour through Babelsberg – many thanks to the Rotes Nowawes history workshop for the interesting insights into the history of the city. This time the focus was on the topic of strategy – we discussed various strategies and tactics of political action, the situation of the left and possible scope for action in the current environment. A focus was also on the “Turn off the tap for Tesla” alliance, which we co-founded in June 2023, and the further course of action. On Saturday we continued working on our position papers and discussed the topics of the state and antisemitism. On Sunday we focused on practical aspects, including our website, social media strategies, the process of having new members join and reaching out to like-minded left-wing groups for cooperations.
July 27 – 30, 2023 | LEA offsite workshop in Potsdam
The meeting began on Friday with a small tour of the city with a representative of “Vernetzung Süd” and an introduction to the challenges of the initiative, which is committed to the issues of housing, rents and urban development in Connewitz and Südvorstadt. On Friday evening the topic of the Ukraine war was discussed again.
On Saturday, we took on the topics of anti-racism/colonialism and feminism/queer feminism to develop a joint basis for our position papers. The conclusion on Sunday was discussions about next steps, forms of action and networking.
July 27, 2023 | LEIPZIG
Green Capitalism? Criticism of the Green New Deal and left ecological alternatives (lecture & discussion with Peter Bierl) – all details here.
April 25 – May 23 | Online
Reading group on Materialist Theories of Racism – all details here
March 23, 2023 | Potsdam
7.30 pm Discussion at the bookstore Sputnik
“Realpolitik into the abyss: Lützerath, the parties and capitalism”.
All details here
Please find the complete list on the German version of the website.