Chanie Rosenberg
Chanie Rosenberg (20 April 1922 – 6 June 2021) 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.[1]
Life[]
Chanie Rosenberg was born to a Jewish Zionist family originally from Lithuania in South Africa, where she studied Hebrew at university. 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 under his pen name of Tony Cliff. After the war she moved to Britain where she was active as a socialist and involved in many anti-racist and anti-fascist mobilisations. She worked as a teacher who was active in the National Union of Teachers in Hackney.[2] She was also an artist whose sculpture has been exhibited in the Royal Academy of Arts.[3]
Selected writings[]
- 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[]
Further reading[]
- Ian Birchall Tony Cliff: A Marxist for his time (2011)
External links[]
- Obituary of Chanie Rosenberg by Donny Gluckstein in Socialist Worker
- Remembering Chanie Rosenberg in Socialist Worker
- Obituary of Chanie Rosenberg by Talat Ahmed in the Guardian
- Chanie Rosenberg Internet Archive
- Interview with Chanie Rosenberg in 2012
- Review of Fighting Fit
- Image of Chanie Rosenberg and Tony Cliff
- 1922 births
- 2021 deaths
- British Jewish 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