George Shriver's new translation of The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg is the most comprehensive collection of her correspondence yet to appear in English. It transports us directly into the private world ...
Red carnations are laid on the Berlin tomb of German communist leader Rosa Luxemburg during a ceremony to commemorate her death. Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters In October 1918, a year after the 1917 October ...
TEN YEARS after the murder of Rosa Luxemburg in January 1919, playwright and poet Bertolt Brecht wrote in his typically stark, homely verse: Red Rosa now has vanished too. Where she lies is hid from ...
Today is the birthday of the revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg. Routinely reduced to an inoffensive libertarian figure, the harder edges of her class-struggle politics are often ignored. Since 1998, Rosa ...
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 ...
On this day in 1871, Rozalia (Rosa) Luxemburg was born in Zamość, Poland, to a middle-class Jewish family living under Russian occupation. On January 15, 1919, she was murdered and dumped in a Berlin ...