Rosa Luxemburg was murdered 105 years ago today (15th January 1919) by a the far right German Freikorps on the orders of the social-democratic Government of the day.
She had opposed the First World War and left a formidable legacy of theory and practice.
Rosa Luxemburg described what happened when her cat Mimi met Lenin:
“She also flirted with him, rolled on her back and behaved enticingly toward him,” Luxemburg writes. “But when he tried to approach her she whacked him with a paw and snarled like a tiger.”
Like Peggy Woolley’s cat, Hilda Ogden. Poor Joy will take her in.