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150 Years — Learning from Rosa Luxemburg

Sarah Moayeri, Flo Klabacher, and Brettros are members of Sozialistische LinksPartei (ISA in Austria). One hundred and fifty years ago, Rosa Luxemburg (Rozalia Luksenburg) was born in what is now Poland, the daughter of a Jewish timber merchant. The young Rosa became politically active at an early age; at 16 she joined the revolutionary circle […]

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The Revolutionary Ideas of Rosa Luxemburg

Eleanor Crossey-Malone is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). January 15th marked the 101st anniversary of the murder of the outstanding revolutionary socialist leader, Rosa Luxemburg. This article, first published by Socialist Party Ireland looks at her defence of both the fundamental ideas of Marxism and the necessity of revolutionary change against […]

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Socialist Alternative Magazine #11

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Portraits of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht

Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht 100th anniversary

Robert Bechert is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. In January 1919 Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two of the outstanding leaders of the German and international working class movements, were murdered. They are figures who still today symbolise uncompromising opposition to capitalism and imperialist war and who fought and died for […]

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The revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg

Peter Taaffe is a member of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales). On 15 January 1919, Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, the finest brains of the German working class and its most heroic figures, were brutally murdered by the bloodthirsty, defeated German military, backed to the hilt by the cowardly social-democratic leaders. The […]

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The revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg

Peter Taaffe is a member of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales). On 15 January 1919, Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, the finest brains of the German working class and its most heroic figures, were brutally murdered by the bloodthirsty, defeated German military, backed to the hilt by the cowardly social-democratic leaders Noske […]

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