Chanie Rosenberg

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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[]

  1. ^ [1] Short biography
  2. ^ [2] Interview with Chanie Rosenberg
  3. ^ [3]Review of Fighting Fit

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