Some Informations in English

Compilation: Wolfgang Pomrehn

´If You Do Not Follow the Order You Will Be Shot´
New facts about the murder of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg

Article from 1999 by V. P. Sharma in: Revolutionary Democracy, Vol. V, No. 1, April 1999

Editorial Board: Tahir Asghar, Ashim Roy, Vijay Singh, C. N. Subramaniam, Rajesh Tyagi

Revolutionary Democracy is a half-yearly theoretical and political journal published in April and September from India. It contains materials on the problems facing the communist movement, particularly relating to Russia, China and India, the origins of modern revisionism, the restoration of capitalism in the USSR, developments in the international communist movement.

LL-Demo 2000
German police attack leftists´ commemoration
By Wolfgang Pomrehn

Information and texts of Rosa Luxemburg:

• Her most important works and a short biography
  
  
• Rosa Luxemburg in Retrospect
  By Paul Mattick Sr. - From Root and Branch # 6, 1978
  
  
• Rosa Luxemburg - Biographical Information
  "Rosa Luxemburg: A Socialist With a Human Face"
  by Beverly G. Merrick
  
  
• The todayness of Rosa Luxemburg

  Editor´s note: As we approach the end of 1999, the year in which we celebrate the life and thought of the revolutionary activist and thinker, Rosa Luxemburg, on the 80th anniversary of her murder by the proto-fascist Freikorps, we print excerpts from talks by Paul LeBlanc and Olga Domanski given at a forum in Chicago celebrating her life and work.

  Theory/Praxis News&Letters - Philosophic Dialogue, November 1999

There is far less information about Karl Liebknecht in English on the net (more in other non-German languages):

• Short biography
  
  

  Some links there:

  • Militarism and Anti-Militarism, 1907
    
  • The Main Enemy Is At Home, 1915
    
  • Revolutionary Socialism in Germany, 1916
    
  • The Future Belongs to the People
    Speeches made since the beginning of the War, 1914-1916
    
  • To the Workers and Soldiers of the Allied Countries, 1918
    
  • Self-Determination of Nations and Self-Defense, date unknown (1915?)
  
  
  
• Karl Liebknecht
  MILITARISM (1912)
  A book of Karl Liebknecht on Militarism.
  
  
• "From Prison"

  Karl Liebknecht was a comrade of Rosa Luxemburg, and was instrumental in founding with her the German Communist Party (KPD) and leading the second wave of the German revolution. He was one of the only Social Democratic parliamentarians to vote against the First World War, and spent much of it in jail for sedition. This poem was composed while he was in jail during June 1916.

  New translation from the German by Dougal McNeill, published in socialist review

• A some what longer biographic piece in the socialist review
  
  
• John Reed meets Liebknecht 1915 in Berlin

And a small quote from Karl Liebknecht:

At the crash of economic collapse of which the rumblings can already be heard, the sleeping soldiers of the proletariat will awake as at the fanfare of the Last Judgment and the corpses of the victims of the struggle will arise and demand an accounting from those who are loaded down with curses.

will be continued

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