Rosa Luxemberg Karl Liebknecht Memorial Demonstration 15th January.

Today is the day we remember our beloved fallen –  Rosa Luxemberg and Karl Liebknecht.

“On 31 December 1918/1 January 1919, Liebknecht was involved in the founding of the KPD. Together with Luxemburg, Leo Jogiches and Clara Zetkin, Liebknecht was also instrumental in the January 1919 Spartacist uprising in Berlin. Initially he and Luxemburg opposed the revolt, but participated after it had begun. The uprising was brutally opposed by the new German government under Friedrich Ebert with the help of the remnants of the Imperial German Army and militias called the Freikorps; by 13 January, the uprising had been extinguished. Liebknecht and Luxemburg were captured by Freikorps soldiers, on 15 January 1919, with considerable support from Minister of MSPD Defense Gustav Noske, and brought to the Eden Hotel in Berlin, where they were tortured^[3] and interrogated for several hours. Following this, Luxemburg was beaten with rifle butts and afterwards shot, her corpse thrown into a nearby river while Liebknecht was forced to step out of the car where he was being transported and then shot in his back. Official declarations later claimed he had been shot in an attempt to escape. Although the circumstances were disputed by the perpetrators at the time the Freikorps commander Captain Waldemar Pabst would later claim “I had them executed”.

“Luxemburg’s last known words, written on the evening of her murder, were about her belief in the masses, and in what she saw as the inevitability of revolution:

“The leadership has failed. Even so, the leadership can and must be recreated from the masses and out of the masses. The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built. The masses were on the heights; they have developed this ‘defeat’ into one of the historical defeats which are the pride and strength of international socialism. And that is why the future victory will bloom from this ‘defeat’.
‘Order reigns in Berlin!’ You stupid henchmen! Your ‘order’ is built on sand. Tomorrow the revolution will already ‘raise itself with a rattle’ and announce with fanfare, to your terror:
I was, I am, I shall be!”

“Die Liebknecht-Luxemburg-Demonstration ist eine jährliche politische Großdemonstration zum Gedenken an die am 15. Januar 1919 ermordeten revolutionären Sozialisten Karl Liebknecht und Rosa Luxemburg. Sie findet regelmäßig um das Datum ihres Todestages, am zweiten Januarwochenende, in Berlin statt und verläuft in der Regel vom Frankfurter Tor bis zur Gedenkstätte der Sozialisten auf dem Zentralfriedhof Friedrichsfelde.

Below from Neues Deutschland, (Here) 

 Zum Gedenken an Rosa und Karl Zehntausende zur Luxemburg-Liebknecht-Ehrung erwartet

Video and Information here.

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