Luxemburg’s body is found in the Landwehr Canal

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...

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;...

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...

Paul Levi publishes Luxemburg’s prison text, bringing her democratic critique of Bolshevik restrictions into public debate. Subsequent political traditions have emphasized different parts of the text,...

Frölich, a former comrade from the revolutionary socialist movement, writes a biography while German fascism has destroyed independent working-class organizations and driven opponents into exile....

The English edition brings a major early account of Luxemburg’s life and political work to readers outside German-language socialist circles. Later biographies and archival editions supplement and...