[BEST OF] Red Rosa: The Life and Legacy of Rosa Luxemburg
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Breht O'Shea
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🗓️ 11 May 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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ORIGINALLY RELEASED Oct 12, 2019
In this episode, I sit down with author and illustrator Kate Evans to discuss her powerful graphic biography Red Rosa, which vividly brings to life the story of revolutionary Marxist thinker Rosa Luxemburg. We explore Luxemburg's radical politics, her commitment to internationalism and anti-militarism, and the challenges she faced as a Jewish woman in the male-dominated socialist movements of her time. Kate shares her creative process behind the book, how she translated dense political theory into an accessible visual narrative, and why Luxemburg's legacy remains so vital for today's struggles against capitalism and authoritarianism. Whether you're new to Luxemburg or a longtime admirer, this conversation offers fresh insight into one of the most brilliant and courageous figures of the socialist tradition.
Find her book, and all her other work, here: https://www.cartoonkate.co.uk/
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome back to Revolutionary Left Radio. |
| 0:09.3 | I'm your hosting comrade Red O'Shea, and today we have the other part of our Rosa Luxembourg |
| 0:14.7 | double episode feature special we're doing. |
| 0:17.7 | This part is with Kate Evans, the author and illustrator of the amazing graphic |
| 0:23.9 | novel called Red Rosa about the life of Rosa Luxembourg. And it's such a wonderful aesthetic |
| 0:31.1 | accomplishment, an intellectual one, a biographical one. There's so many wonderful dimensions to |
| 0:36.7 | Red Rosa. I really cannot recommend it enough. |
| 0:39.7 | And Kate herself is just a lovely human being and is absolutely just a pleasure to talk to. |
| 0:45.7 | Her passion and her sense of humor and her kindness and her thoughtfulness absolutely come through in every, |
| 0:52.7 | you know, every second of this interview with her. |
| 0:55.0 | So I really hope people enjoy this. |
| 0:56.8 | And again, this is the other half of our sort of two-part series on Rosa Luxembourg. |
| 1:01.7 | This is really focused on her life and her biography. |
| 1:04.5 | And then the other episode, which will be released on the same exact day as with Simone Norman. |
| 1:08.7 | And that really focuses specifically on Rosa's theoretical work |
| 1:12.6 | within the confines of Marxism. So definitely check out both of those episodes. It doesn't matter |
| 1:17.6 | in which order you listen to them, but the goal is to get a really well-rounded, multi-dimensional |
| 1:23.0 | view of Rosa Luxembourg and who she was, not only as a historical figure or even as a Marxist, |
| 1:28.8 | but as a well-rounded human being. So I really enjoyed this conversation with Kate Evans, |
| 1:33.3 | and I hope you do as well. And as always, if you like what we do here at Revolutionary Left Radio, |
| 1:37.7 | you can go to Revolutionary Left Radio.com, find our YouTube page, find our Patreon. And if you do |
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