Chanie Rosenberg
Chanie Rosenberg (20 April 1922 – June 2021)[1][2] was a South African-born artist, former teacher and socialist. She was the sister of Michael Kidron, the partner of Tony Cliff, and a founder member of the Socialist Workers Party in Britain.[3]
Life[edit]
Chanie Rosenberg was born to a Jewish Zionist family originally from Lithuania in South Africa, a relative was the poet Isaac Rosenberg. She studied Hebrew at Cape Town University.[1] In 1944, she moved to Palestine to live on a kibbutz where she became an anti-Zionist and a revolutionary socialist and met Yigael Gluckstein (better known as Tony Cliff). After the war, she moved to Britain where she was a member of the Revolutionary Communist Party from 1944 to 1949; afterwards joining the group which eventually became the Socialist Workers Party.[1] She was active in many anti-racist and anti-fascist mobilisations. She worked as a teacher who was active in the National Union of Teachers in Hackney.[4] She was also an artist whose sculpture has been exhibited in the Royal Academy of Arts.[5]
Selected writings[edit]
- Education and Society: A rank-and-file pamphlet (1968)
- Education and Revolution: a great experiment in socialist education (1972)
- Class Size and the Relationship Between Official and Unofficial Action in the NUT (1977)
- Women and Perestroika (1989)
- Education under capitalism and socialism (1991)
- 1919: Britain on the Brink of Revolution (1995)
- Education: Why our children deserve better than New Labour (with Kevin Ovenden) (1999)
- Fighting Fit: A Memoir (includes an illustrated pamphlet on Malevich and Revolution) (2013)
References[edit]
- ^ a b c Ahmed, Talat (7 September 2021). "Chanie Rosenberg obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 February 2022.
- ^ "Chanie Rosenberg 1922-2021". Socialist Worker. 6 June 2021. Retrieved 20 February 2022.
- ^ [1] Archived 3 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine Short biography
- ^ [2] Interview with Chanie Rosenberg
- ^ [3]Review of Fighting Fit
Further reading[edit]
- Ian Birchall Tony Cliff: A Marxist for his time (2011)
External links[edit]
- Obituary of Chanie Rosenberg by Donny Gluckstein in Socialist Worker
- Remembering Chanie Rosenberg in Socialist Worker
- Chanie Rosenberg Internet Archive
- Review of Fighting Fit
- Image of Chanie Rosenberg and Tony Cliff
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- 1922 births
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- Jewish British anti-Zionists
- Jewish British writers
- British political writers
- British Trotskyists
- International Socialist Tendency
- Jewish socialists
- Revolutionary Communist Party (UK, 1944) members
- Socialist Workers Party (UK) members
- South African Jews
- South African emigrants to Mandatory Palestine
- Mandatory Palestine emigrants to the United Kingdom
- Jewish British anti-racism activists
- British anti-racism activists