The following commentary was distributed as a leaflet at the Rosa Luxemburg conference organised by the Junge Welt newspaper on January 7. In an article for the January 3 edition of Junge Welt (Young ...

In early 2010, I happened to be in Berlin wandering around Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz and I started to wonder what had happened to the corpse, so I called Dr. Tsokos and, on a frozen January day, went to ...

Once upon a time there lived a Jewish lady, of modest stature and of a certain age, who walked with a limp and liked to sing to the birds. Through the bars on her window she would treat the titmice to ...

The World Socialist Web Site recently received a letter on Rosa Luxemburg’s attitude to Lenin. Below we post a reply by David North, chairman of the WSWS Editorial Board. Dear reader, The rich and ...

In January 2022, the East-Germany city of Leipzig started to host an exhibition about the siblings of one of Germany’s greatest anti-war activists, working class speaker, theoretician of mass strike, ...

She was born Rozalia Luksenburg in Poland in 1871. Against the triple historical whammy of being “a girl, a Jew, a cripple,” as Vivian Gornick put it, she opposed an overpowering intellect and a ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Martorana and Mills . Socialism or barbarism? Reform or revolution? These phrases both describe ...

Facing an interrogator in the hour before her death, Rosa Luxemburg reached into her handbag for needle and cotton and deftly repaired the hem of her skirt, which had frayed during her abduction. She ...

Luxemburg reveals the counter-revolutionary nature and consequences of the Bolsheviks' nationalist policy of the "right of self-determination of peoples". Originally published as Chapter II of the ...

Ana Cecilia Dinerstein does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations ...

As Luxemburg wrote, “It’s the German thoroughness that prevents a true picture of life or of the times from being created, a picture that should be tossed off with light strokes.” The bulk of the ...