Chanie Rosenberg

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Chanie Rosenberg (20 April 1922 – June 2021)[1][2] was a South African-born artist, former teacher and socialist. She was the sister of Michael Kidron, the partner of Tony Cliff, and a founder member of the Socialist Workers Party in Britain.[3]

Life

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

Cape Town University.[1] 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 Tony Cliff). 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.[1] 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 in Hackney.[4] She was also an artist whose sculpture has been exhibited in the Royal Academy of Arts.[5]

Selected writings

References

  1. ^ a b c Ahmed, Talat (7 September 2021). "Chanie Rosenberg obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 February 2022.
  2. ^ "Chanie Rosenberg 1922-2021". Socialist Worker. 6 June 2021. Retrieved 20 February 2022.
  3. ^ [1] Archived 3 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine Short biography
  4. ^ [2] Interview with Chanie Rosenberg
  5. ^ [3]Review of Fighting Fit

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