The Revolutionary Age Chronicle and Interpretation of Events in Europe Vol. I, No. 15 Saturday, January 25, 1919 Price Cents Our Dead Comrades burg are dead, and in dying live forever ARL LIEBKNECHT and Rosa Luxem sons and daughters of manufacturers and war for aroused to further effort by these brutal profiteers, is revolting in its savagery and besti murders, the revolutionary Socialists will cerLiebknecht murdered by the troops of ality, but the brutality of the mob is in itself a tainly march to the conquest of power sweeping a Socialist government, Rosa Luxemburg tribute to the great mind, the powerful oratory these bourgeois Socialists away with the syslynched by a wealthy mob; both slain that Capi and the uncompromising attitude of this great tem of which they are a diseased growth. Revtalism may live. And they cried, Give us woman. Handicapped by a somewhat unprepos enge is no part of revolutionary Socialism but Barrabas!
sessing appearance and a shuffling gait, Rosa if necessity decrees that the new social order Opposed by the, as yet, unconscious masses Luxemburg, Red Rosa, as the people called her, can only be born in the valley of the shadow of of the Gerinan workers and soldiers, acting for was probably the most powerful propagandist in death, in the blood and tears of a world in labor, the sinister forces of Capitalism, disguised in Germany. Fearless and steadfast she also re then the dark ways of that valley will be fearthe clothing of Moderate Socialissa and Bourfused to compromise with Imperialism, and when lessly trod and those who would cry halt to the geois Democracy, the Spartacides in Berlin released from the prison cell to which a fright forward march of the people masses must take were, for the moment, overwhelmed and disened autocracy had condemned her, she, like the consequences. The workers have suffered persed. Liebknecht, Rosa Luxemburg ard their Liebknecht, refused to compromise with the men through the ages and in the agony of their suffercomrades were reported as fleeing to safety, but who had betrayed the cause of Socialism. Withing they have glimpsed the new civilization and knowing that the masses were already awakenthe rest of the Spartacus Group she sounded towards it they march. They march not for vening, that there was work still to be done, they the call to the proletariat to proceed with the geance, they come to bring peace not the sword, distained fight, as they had always distained work they had undertaken, to sweep away with but they march ever forward, nothing will stay compromise, and proceeded with their task the the Kaiser and his throne the society of which their steps.
task of sweeping away the last foul vestige of he was the expression.
Two great fighters are gone, but the the present system and in its stead building the Immediately she was released from prison cause of which they were such fearless and able new social order: the Brotherhood of the Workshe began the work of organizing the property advocates would be unworthy of them if it were ers of the World.
less workers of the cities and the landless peas for a moment to falter. They were a part of Is life boon, if so it must befail that death, ants of the countryside. To the men and women, that cause which depends not on individualities, when er he call, must call too soon, writes the on whose behalf her powerful voice and vivid and in dying they give to it only a further impepoet, and one may pause to drop a tear by the pen were never idle, she appealed; they fol tus not alone in Germany, but throughout the biers, a tear of regret that these two champions lowed her and swelled the ranks of the Sparta entire world.
of the world oppressed passed on before they cides. Even when in convention the Spartacus Powerful in life, they are invincible in death.
could see the fruition of the glorious hope that Group were wavering on the verge of compro Already the German proletariat, awakened to Revolutionary Russia gave to the world and mise over the National Assembly it was she.
consciousness by the tragedy, is swinging into which they themselves in turn inspired in the supported by Karl Radek, the Bolshevik envoy, action, already the Socialist government talks breasts of their comrades. But regrets are vain who pointed out the way and kept the conven of delaying the National Assembly. The and belong to the weak. They died as they lived, tion true to its revolutionary purpose.
broad masses are stirring, stirring as do the battling against ignorance and tyranny.
Little wonder that the wealthy mob, given the leaves of the forest trees with the first faint Liebknecht met a fitting death for a man who opportunity by the campaign of hatred and slan breath of the coming storm. The clarion call is never counted the odds in life. Single handed der waged against her by the Vorwaerts and the sounding the workers are massing for the he faced the might of Imperial Germany and, majority Socialist organs generally, seized the assault, the moment of action is approaching and heedless alike of the scorn of the country or the chance to lynch her, for she was one of its most above the masses, ever beckoning them on to the hypocritical applause of the country antago uncompromising foes. She fought privilege and conquest of power, hovers the spirit of these two nists, he spoke against the war; he voiced the exploitation wherever she found it, with all the heroic souls.
protest of the common people of all countries strength of her passionate being she embraced One lies in a coffin, the other drifts with the the protest they were themselves afraid to whisthe cause of the world outcasts and there is per. When the war was at its height, when the slow moving waters of the canal, but in spirit arms of Imperial Germany were apparently vic something. not unfitting that the body of Red they both march in the van of the ever growing torious and the inert masses were glorifying the Rosa should foat along the dark waters of a army of the revolutionary proletariat.
chains that bound them, he voiced the call to accanal. where the bodies of the women of the And we of the Western world send our silent tion. Dragged into prison he spoke from the working class have so often foated when in sympathy across the restless sen to our revoluprison cell in a voice that sounded round the death they have sought refuge from the perse tionary comrades in this the hour of their sorrow world and revived the dying hope of his comcution, prostitution, and hunger, that is so and of ours. From out the jails of this country, often their portion under this cursed system of rades in all lands.
the source from which our dead comrades would He indignantly spurned compromise when ImCapitalism. Red Rosa. her body goes to keep most appreciate it, rises the sympathy of those perialism was rampant, as he spurned it when company with the bodies of the sisters in whose most worthy amongst us to sympathize.
the bourgeois Socialists succeeded in betraycause she spent her life. The roses will bloom Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, we ing the proletarian masses in the days immedirecl along the banks of that canal.
who have called you Comrade and who strive ately preceding his death, and when captured by It is reported that the governinent Socialists with faltering steps, as you have so ably striven the troops of these Socialists he spurned the fear that the Spartacides may exact vengeance with firmer tread, to establish the Brotherhood compromise of imprisonment. Though wounded for the deaths of their comrades; but they need of the World Workers, salute you as you pass and weak from the blows of the wealthy mob not fear vengeance and if they were Socialists on. He salute you now in silent homage for he made a dash for liberty against great odds.
in anything else but nane, they would not fear it the great work you have so fearlessly performed. Halt, shouted the soldiers; but though the for they would know that the cause for which even as the inert masses must in the coming guns were at their shoulders and their aim swift Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg gave their days of emancipation render homage to the and sure he kept on, knowing that he was needlives knows nothing of vengeance. It is the great cause in which you died. You have gone ed to urge the awakening masses into their final bourgeoisie who awaken the passions of the to jo. the noble arıny of the proletariat martriumphant struggle. And so he fell with mol. The Spartacides will not insult the memory tyred dead. you have well earned the name Sparthree bullets in his body.
of their dead by yielding to the baser instincts. tacus.
Rosa Luxemburg death at the hands of a But though they need not fear that vengeance In sorrow we salute you, when the class strugmob composed, according to the press, of the will be visited upon thein they may well tremble, gle flames in action we will remember you.