At a time when vilification of the Left is pervasive, and corporate-led capitalism seems to have triumphed resoundingly, squeezing out any space to think about better alternatives, it is good, and necessary, to have Kate Evans’s Red Rosa (Verso, £9.99), a graphic biography of Rosa Luxemburg, Polish-German socialist and Marxist ideologue and founder of the ‘Spartacus League’, which was to… Independent.
Broadly interview: Rosa Luxemburg, the cat lady
[This interview by Colette Shade is from Broadly, the women’s bits of Vice] Doomed revolutionary, a sexual renegade, a dynamo with a limp, and a prescient critic of both capitalism and Bolshevism, Rosa Luxemburg’s extraordinary life has always deserved a wider audience. Full of travel, political drama, sexual freedom and intellectual feuds — Luxemburg’s journey out of Poland to becoming … Read More
Read the book! The Accumulation of Capital, the Junius pamphlet, and more…
America’s longest-running magazine The Nation is hosting a chunky excerpt from Red Rosa on its website. I’d not recommend reading this one if you’re intending to buy the book, because it’s got some of the absolute best bits in. Click the image to read on, at your own risk of spoilers!
Read the book! Rosa Luxemburg explains capitalism using spoons, knives and celery
An excerpt of Red Rosa: the graphic biography of Rosa Luxemburg, featured on Truth Out. In this excerpt, the teenage Rosa Luxemburg teaches her family about Marx’s Das Kapital, explaining material and social relations and the problem of money… Click the image for more.
“What better way to make Historical Materialism interesting and gettable?”
The perfect book for socialist-curious: RED ROSA: A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg by Kate Evans, in the spirit of the For Beginners and Introducing graphic novel series. But this book is better! Longer, and with more detail about Luxemberg’s really fascinating life: a supersmart polish immigrant in France/Germany who got her PhD in Economics when most women couldn’t even… Comics Bulletin
Drawing out Rosa Luxemburg’s gender identity
[This article was first featured in the journal e-international relations] My name was put forward as the author/artist of Red Rosa, a graphic biog-raphy of Rosa Luxemburg precisely because the editor Paul Buhle was looking for a female graphic novelist to take the project on. This article will explore how I form representations of Luxemburg’s gender identity in the work and … Read More
Merry Christmas and all that.
Massive <3 to John McDonnell for defending his Who’s Who entry (“hobbies: fermenting world revolution”) on the Today programme. “Oh no, I don’t regret it at all.”
21st Century Cop Out
A comic history of the COP climate negotiations. “I laughed so much I nearly choked.” – Susan, Indonesia. This cartoon first appeared as part of New Internationalist’s excellent online coverage of the 2015 Paris Climate Summit.
The Making of Red Rosa (short film)
The Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung put together some edited highlights from New York. This is a taster from my appearance at the Rosa Remix conference in August, followed by an interview with Molly Crabapple at the launch in November.