Chanie Rosenberg (20 April 1922 – June 2021) was a South African-born artist, former teacher and socialist. She was the sister of

Michael Kidron Michael Kidron (20 September 1930 – 25 March 2003) was a British cartographer. He was one of the early founders of the International Socialists (forerunners of the Socialist Workers Party; SWP) through the 1960s and 1970s, and the first edi ...

, the partner of

Tony Cliff Tony Cliff (born Yigael Glückstein, he, יגאל גליקשטיין; 20 May 1917 – 9 April 2000) was a Trotskyist activist. Born to a Jewish family in Palestine, he moved to Britain in 1947 and by the end of the 1950s had assumed the pen nam ...

, and a founder member of the Socialist Workers Party in Britain.

Life

Chanie Rosenberg was born to a Jewish Zionist family originally from Lithuania in South Africa, a relative was the poet

Isaac Rosenberg Isaac Rosenberg (25 November 1890 – 1 April 1918) was an English poet and artist. His ''Poems from the Trenches'' are recognized as some of the most outstanding poetry written during the First World War. Early life Isaac Rosenberg was born ...

. She studied Hebrew at

Cape Town University The University of Cape Town (UCT) ( af, Universiteit van Kaapstad, xh, Yunibesithi ya yaseKapa) is a public research university in Cape Town, South Africa. Established in 1829 as the South African College, it was granted full university statu ...

. 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 as

). After the war, she moved to Britain where she was a member of the Revolutionary Communist Party from 1944 to 1949; afterwards joining the group which eventually became the Socialist Workers Party. She was active in many anti-racist and anti-fascist mobilisations. She worked as a teacher who was active in the

National Union of Teachers The National Union of Teachers (NUT; ) was a trade union for school teachers in Education in England, England, Education in Wales, Wales, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. It was a member of the Trades Union Congress. In March 2017, NU ...

in Hackney. She was also an artist whose sculpture has been exhibited in the

Royal Academy of Arts The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly in London. Founded in 1768, it has a unique position as an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects. Its purpo ...

.
'Review of Fighting Fit''

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

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Obituary of Chanie Rosenberg
by

Donny Gluckstein Donny Gluckstein (born 1954) is a British historian at Edinburgh College. He went to the University of Warwick in 1974 and graduated in history. The son of Tony Cliff and Chanie Rosenberg, he is the author of numerous books and articles. In 201 ...

in ''Socialist Worker''
Remembering Chanie Rosenberg
in ''Socialist Worker''
Image of Chanie Rosenberg and Tony Cliff
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Life

Selected writings

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