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Does primitive accumulation belong in the past?

Rosa Luxemburg's writings from 1910-19

Reform isn't enough

Remember Lenin's ideas 100 years on

A revolt that helped end war

Rosa Luxemburg on mass strike is crucial

Across the world in the face of imperialism and occupation, demands are put forward for self-determination and national independence.

United class struggle can undermine sexism and offer hope of liberation. But that doesn't mean sidelining the battle against oppression, writes Isabel Ringrose

Rosa Luxemburg was murdered 103 years ago today

On the 150th anniversary of Rosa Luxemburg’s birth, US socialist author Paul Le Blanc looks at her life and legacy

A remarkable figure amid a revolutionary ferment, Rosa Luxemburg lit the way for generations to come. Sally Campbell recalls her legacy, and we reprint Luxemburg's final article, written the day before she died in January 1919.

Lenin's critical response to Rosa Luxemburg's Junius pamphlet

Right up until July 1914 anti-war activity was rife across Europe, led by the socialist parties of the Second International. In the face of growing nationalism Rosa Luxemburg and the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) organised mass rallies and the SPD headquarters put out statements confirming their stance against war: “The class conscious proletariat...

Rosa Luxemburg's short book Reform or Revolution is often overlooked these days, in favour of her more famous, The Mass Strike. Written while in her late twenties, Reform or Revolution demonstrates the keeness of Luxemburg's Marxism and the sharpness of her polemic.

Rosa Luxemburg was a revolutionary socialist who made a key contribution to Marxism with her writings on mass strikes.

Colin Parsons looks at why socialists argue for mass strikes

When Rosa Luxemburg was murdered 90 years ago this month, the international workers' movement lost one of its greatest revolutionaries. Here we reprint an evaluation of her life from a pamphlet by Socialist Workers Party founder Tony Cliff, first published in 1959.

At the 1907 conference of the Second International (the organisation of European socialist parties) Rosa Luxemburg helped write a resolution committing each party to opposing its own government in a time of war.

Rosa Luxemburg was a unique thinker and fighter. She was born in Russian-occupied Poland in 1871. When she was 16 she joined a revolutionary party and within a few years was one of its leaders.

In your area there may well be a longstanding Socialist Worker reader who has a video of the marvellous film about the Polish/German revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg. If so, borrow it. Among other outstanding scenes is one where Rosa Luxemburg's friends implore her to leave Berlin as the forerunners of the Nazi stormtroopers hunt her down.