Spartacus League

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Luxemburg leads work on Die Rote Fahne

📅 10 November 1918

Within a day of her release she helps edit the revolutionary newspaper Die Rote Fahne. The paper becomes a platform for debate over the revolution’s direction, the councils, the SPD-led government and...

Luxemburg presents the Spartacus programme

📅 14 December 1918

In “What Does the Spartacus League Want?” she calls for socialization of major industries, workers’ power through councils and international revolution. The programme treats emancipation as a task for...

The Communist Party of Germany is founded

📅 30 December 1918

Luxemburg helps found the KPD at its congress in Berlin. The new party gathers revolutionary socialists but is divided over electoral participation, centralized party organization and the timing and...

Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht are murdered after the Berlin uprising

📅 15 January 1919

Right-wing paramilitaries killed socialist leaders Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht after the January uprising in Berlin. Their deaths became a symbol of the violent suppression of revolutionary...