“You know, I hope nevertheless to die at my post, in a street-battle or in a hard-labour prison”, wrote Rosa Luxemburg to a comrade in 1917. This was not rhetorical flourish or hyperbole: Luxemburg gave everything she had to the fight for socialism. Including, in the end, her life.
Mick Armstrong responds to the argument made by British journalist Paul Mason that socialists should call for a 'popular front' with capitalist forces in the West against the threat of Russian and Chinese authoritarianism.
