The International group forms

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...

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...

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...

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...

The preface explains the purpose of the pamphlet and its criticism of social democracy’s support for the war. It frames the catastrophe as political and international, not simply a military conflict...

Printed in Switzerland as The Crisis of Social Democracy, the work circulates despite wartime censorship. The pseudonym “Junius” protects its author while placing the pamphlet in an international...