Call for participation in the demonstration within the framework of the Luxemburg-Liebknecht-Commemoration, on 11th January 2026 at 10 a.m. from Frankfurter Tor to the Memorial of the Socialists in Berlin-Friedrichsfelde and also on 15th January 2026 at 06:00 p.m. from Olof Palme Place to the Memorials in Tiergarten.
We too say: »Never again ready for war! Let us stand up for peace!«
More than 100 years ago, in 1899, Rosa Luxemburg stated in »Social Reform or Revolution«: »But if world politics and militarism are undoubtedly on the rise in the current phase, because they are linked to the economic needs and aspirations of capitalism, then bourgeois democracy must logically be on the decline.« These words apply unreservedly to the present day, yet they can only describe it to a limited extent. Today, militarization threatens to unleash a nuclear inferno, and the »decline of bourgeois democracy« is inextricably linked to rapidly increasing tendencies towards fascism.
Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht were murdered on 15th January 1919 by the henchmen of capital because they uncompromisingly fought capitalism and war and were committed to peace with all their strength. When we, leftists from different currents, remember them in a combative and peaceful manner at the demonstration as part of the Luxemburg-Liebknecht commemoration, this memory is inextricably linked for us with today’s struggle for peace, so that we will not be the last humans.
We are demonstrating against the threat of a third world war and against all the consequences that are already increasingly shaping our everyday lives in preparation for a nuclear catastrophe. After two lost wars, German militarism is rearing its head once again. NATO, led by the USA, is fuelling Germany’s new aggressiveness. There is talk of war readiness, and vast sums of money are being spent on militarization and armament. The Bundeswehr is to become the strongest conventional army in Europe. And those conscripted into military service are to be used as cannon fodder. At the same time, calls for German nuclear weapons are growing louder again.
There will hardly be any money left for social services, education and culture, healthcare, mobility and environmental protection. Social hardship for more and more people and insane profits for arms manufacturers and other profiteers of armament are eroding civil society and are making it easier and easier for the Nazis to promote their nationalist ideology and movement. And as always, a scapegoat must be found – migrants. Racism is the glue of nationalism. When we march to the Cemetery of Socialists on 11th January 2026, solidarity and internationalism will characterize our demonstration. We stand in solidarity with all oppressed people, especially the people of Palestine. We stand alongside socialist Cuba. We fight against intolerable social cuts and the ever-increasing destruction of our environment. The struggle for world peace will be the focus of our demonstration. We must become tens of thousands. Please mobilize nationwide from today onwards for a mass demonstration against war.
LL Demo Organization Committee, Berlin, October 2025
V.i.S.d.P.: Klaus Meinel, Platz der Vereinten Nationen 25, 10249 Berlin
We are an alliance of leftist parties, organizations and autonomous groups. Since 1996, we have been preparing the annual demonstration within the framework of the Luxemburg-Liebknecht-Commemoration. We combine the memory of the ideas of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht with the demands in the struggles of our time: We demonstrate for peace and international solidarity, against exploitation, against the dismantling of democratic rights and the increase of fascist dangers.
In spite of all!
Alliance for the preparation of the demonstration within the framework of the Luxemburg-Liebknecht-Commemoration
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Assassination of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht by a band of soldiers of the Cavalry Guards Rifle Division.
Karl Liebknecht, together with 31 murdered comrades, is buried in Friedrichsfelde Cemetery. The funeral procession develops into a mass demonstration.
Rosa Luxemburg is buried next to the burial site of Karl Liebknecht. Tens of thousands form the funeral procession.
Inauguration of the revolutionary monument created by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe at Friedrichsfelde Cemetery.
Commemoration ceremonies took place annually at the tombs of the murdered revolutionaries
Organized commemorations of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht were impossible. The revolutionary monument was destroyed by the fascists and the tombs of the murdered were levelled.
In the GDR, demonstrations took place every year on the second weekend of January to the Memorial of the Socialists in Berlin-Friedrichsfelde in honour of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht.
The demonstration was at first replaced by a Silent Remembrance.
The Lenin Square Alliance organized a demonstration from the former Lenin Square to the Memorial of the Socialists in Friedrichsfelde to protest against the later realized intention of grinding the Lenin Monument and renaming the Lenin Square (now Place of the United Nations).
The Lenin Square Alliance concluded its activities and a Berlin-wide alliance was established, which since 1996 has organized the annual demonstration within the framework of the Luxemburg-Liebknecht Commemoration. Elements of the commemoration are also the Silent Remembrance and the Wreath Ceremony at the Landwehr Canal, which since 1987 is always held on the 15th January.
Short Information on the Luxemburg-Liebknecht-Demonstration on 13th January 2019
On 13th January 2019, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the murder of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, more than 15,000 participants from all over the country demonstrated together with guests from other countries from Frankfurter Tor to the Memorial of the Socialists in Berlin-Friedrichsfelde. It was demonstrated – as Berlin-Brandenburg Broadcasting (rbb) objectively noted – for peace and international solidarity and against the dismantling of democratic rights. The demonstration went without incident and seamlessly proceeded into the Silent Commemoration of the Berlin Land association of the party DIE LINKE on the cemetery forecourt. The Alliance for the preparation of the demonstration within the framework of the Luxemburg-Liebknecht-Commemoration would like to thank all participants for their combative, disciplined, and good-spirited participation.
Berlin, January 2019
Klaus Meinel
Platz der Vereinten Nationen 25
10249 Berlin
Deutschland
0049 0172 7085059
ll-Demo@web.de