From her political awakening as a schoolgirl in tsarist-occupied Poland in the 1880s until her assassination in Berlin in 1919 during the German revolution, Rosa Luxemburg acted, thought, and wrote as a proletarian revolutionist. She was at the center of the sweeping events and mass struggles that shaped the twentieth century -
the explosive growth and socialist organization of the industrial working class in Europe
the sharpening conflicts among the rising imperialist powers
the stunning outbreak of World War I
the victory of the 1917 Bolshevik revolution in Russia
the defeat of the 1918-19 socialist revolution in Germany
In Rosa Luxemburg Speaks one of the outstanding Marxists of our epoch takes us inside the political battles fought out as part of these titanic events.