On Sunday 11 January, the annual march in memory and honour of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, leading figures of the German revolutionary movement and founders of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), took place in Berlin.
The march, first held in 1926, was attended by members and friends of the KKE and KNE, who raised slogans such as “Our future is not capitalism, it is the new world, socialism”, as well as slogans expressing the joint struggle and internationalist solidarity of the peoples.
The banner of the Party, inspired by the epilogue of Luxemburg’s article of 14 January 1919, the day before her assassination, read in German and Greek: “The revolution will rise up again and it will proclaim: I WAS, I AM AND I SHALL BE!”.
The march concluded at the Monument to the Dead of the Communist and Labour Movement, where Liebknecht, Luxemburg, and other prominent figures of the German communist and labour movement are buried. A delegation of the Communist Party of Greece and the Communist Party of Turkey laid a joint wreath in memory of the two communist leaders at the monument, which was erected in 1951 in East Berlin during the period of the German Democratic Republic.
