The January uprising begins in Berlin

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...

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...

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...

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...

The publication makes Luxemburg’s response to critics of The Accumulation of Capital available after her murder. It adds to the record of her economic argument but cannot be treated as a final,...

Luxemburg’s critique of Bolshevik restrictions on political freedom reaches readers after her death. Later political traditions selectively quote her democratic warnings or her revolutionary...