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.

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 Ygael Gluckstein, better known under his pen name of Tony Cliff. After the war she moved to Britain where she was active as a socialist against fascists in East London and worked as a teacher who was active in the National Union of Teachers. She is also an artist whose sculpture has been exhibited in the Royal Academy of Arts.

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)

Further Reading

• Ian Birchall Tony Cliff: A Marxist for his time (2011)

External Links

• Chanie Rosenberg Internet Archive
• Interview with Chanie Rosenberg in 2012
• Review of Fighting Fit
• Film interview with Chanie Rosenberg
• Image of Chanie Rosenberg and Tony Cliff