Karl Liebknecht votes against a new war-credit request

The response in the party’s central paper illustrates how sharply Luxemburg’s theoretical intervention divided German social democracy. Her work was disputed by currents across the socialist movement,...

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...

After urging soldiers not to shoot their fellow workers in a future war, she is convicted of inciting disobedience and sentenced to prison. The prosecution marks a widening attack on anti-militarist...

In a speech during her prosecution, she argues that soldiers should not fire on fellow workers. The speech connects the state’s coercive power at home with the threat of interstate war and becomes a...

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...

Writing under the name Junius, she condemns the war and the nationalist turn of social democracy. Her warning that the choice was between socialism and barbarism made the devastation of imperialist...

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...

She responds to objections to The Accumulation of Capital and clarifies her argument about capitalism’s relations with non-capitalist settings. The response was written while she was imprisoned and...

The manuscript later known as the Junius Pamphlet analyzes the war as a crisis of international social democracy. It condemns the collapse of workers’ internationalism but has itself been criticized...

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...