The Communist Party of Germany is founded

Her analysis of the Russian Revolution supports the overthrow of landlordism and the end of the war while warning that suppressing political freedoms can undermine socialist democracy. Because the...

The German Revolution ends her detention and brings workers’ and soldiers’ councils into public political life. Luxemburg returns to Berlin and commits herself to a socialist transformation led by...

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...

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...

She urges the councils’ congress to make the councils the basis of national authority rather than transfer power to a National Assembly. Delegates vote for elections, demonstrating that...

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...

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;...

In her final article she condemns the crushing of the uprising and argues that defeat does not end revolutionary struggle. The piece was written as counterrevolutionary forces gained ground and amid...

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;...

After months of searches, her body is recovered from Berlin’s Landwehr Canal. The delay and the murder’s attempted concealment become part of the struggle over public memory, accountability and the...