Chanie Rosenberg

Chanie Rosenberg (born 1922) is a South African-born artist, former teacher and socialist who is the sister of Michael Kidron, the widow 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 in South Africa. In 1944 she moved to Palestine to live on a kibbutz where she met Yigael Gluckstein, better known under his pen name of Tony Cliff. After the war she moved to Britain where she is still (at 96) active as a socialist. She worked as a teacher who was active in the National Union of Teachers.[2] She is 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)
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gollark: You should consider having more energy.
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gollark: Ours just don't use energy nowadays, though.

References
  1. Short biography
  2. Interview with Chanie Rosenberg
  3. Review of Fighting Fit

Further reading
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