The Workers' International Network celebrated the 150th anniversary of the birth of Rosa Luxemburg (5th March 1871) with a special meeting.While still a teenager, Rosa organised a general strike in her native Poland. Having migrated to Germany in 1897, she moved the historic resolutions at the Socialist International’s 1907 Stuttgart Congress and 1912 Basel conference pledging resistance to the … [Read more...]
REMEMBERING ROSA LUXEMBURG
Rosa Luxemburg was murdered one hundred years ago, murdered to stop her work as a socialist, writes Felicity Dowling. In paying tribute to Rosa, we are both celebrating her life and marking the centenary of the assassination of one of the greatest women of the socialist movement. This year thousands of people from many nationalities marched through Berlin this weekend, to lay red roses on her … [Read more...]