Tag: Rosa Luxemburg
‘I was, I am, I will be’ – 100 years after the death of...
The deaths of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht have haunted the imagination of the left for a century.
I Bring Her a Flower
On the 100th anniversary of the murder of Rosa Luxemburg, we republish a poetic tribute to her written by Sylvia Townsend Warner.
A critical week lies ahead in the West Virginia teachers’ strike
The West Virginia teachers' strike marks the return of the mass strike to the US in 2018.
revolutionary reflections | The KPD and the United Front during the Weimar Republic
This article by Marcel Bois was originally published in a collection of essays in German by Marx21 on the German Communist Party (KPD). It sets out...
Review: Red Rosa
Caliban's Revenge reviews Red Rosa, a graphic biography of German revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg by Kate Evans.
The uses and abuses of Rosa Luxemburg as a...
Extract: Order reigns in Berlin
On the 97 anniversary of Rosa Luxemburg's murder, Jonas Liston introduces an extract from her final article "Order Reigns in Berlin".
In November 1918, a...
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Review: Radical Happiness
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Interview: Organised and disorganised labour in the Belarus uprising
Siarhei Biareishyk speaks to rs21 about the uprising in Belarus following the falsified re-election of Aliaksandr Lukashenka on 9 August 2020.
Interview: Beirut blast exposed a global system
Rima Majed spoke to rs21 about the blast that devastated Beirut in the context of an existing political and economic crisis.
Review: Fortunes of Feminism
Leslie Cunningham reviews Fortunes of Feminism by Nancy Fraser, a critical account of changes in feminist thought in the era of neo-liberalism.
Post-war to post-industrial Scotland
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Johnson’s bonanza for private capital
The Tories are increasing spending, but the money is going to the rich. Adam Blanden argues that this represents the acceleration of Britain’s transformation into a ‘speculator state’.