📅 4 Ougùstùs 1914
The SPD parliamentary group supports funding Germany’s participation in the First World War, breaking with its internationalist commitments. Luxemburg sees the vote as the collapse of international...
📅 1914
Luxemburg works with Clara Zetkin, Franz Mehring and Karl Liebknecht to resist the war and the party leadership’s support for it. Wartime censorship and emergency powers make anti-war organizing...
📅 2 Desèmber 1914
Liebknecht becomes the only Reichstag deputy to vote against the additional credits in December. Luxemburg’s political partnership with him helps consolidate a visible revolutionary anti-war current...
📅 1915
Luxemburg joins Karl Liebknecht, Clara Zetkin and Franz Mehring in an organized anti-war current, initially operating within the SPD. Its members distribute illegal material and call for international...
📅 1916
The network adopts the Spartacus name and circulates political letters against the war. The group remains a small minority in a society where military command, censorship and nationalist...
📅 10 Novèmber 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...
📅 30 Desèmber 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...
📅 1 Yanüari 1919
At the founding congress she recommends standing in the National Assembly election, believing revolutionaries should use the platform to organize support. Delegates reject her view and vote to...
📅 5 Yanüari 1919
A protest against the dismissal of police president Emil Eichhorn escalates into an armed uprising involving workers, USPD supporters and KPD members. Luxemburg had not authored a plan for the action;...
📅 15 Yanüari 1919
Right-wing officers and soldiers of the Garde-Kavallerie-Schützen-Division capture and murder Luxemburg after the main fighting has ended. Her killing is part of counterrevolutionary repression;...
📅 15 Yanüari 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...
