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 was active as a socialist against fascists in East London and 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)
References
Further reading
- Ian Birchall Tony Cliff: A Marxist for his time (2011)