Germany: Leftists mark 100 years since Luxemburg-Liebknecht executions

Thousands of socialist supporters participated in the Luxemburg-Liebknecht demonstration in Berlin on Sunday, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the 1919 executions of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht. Holding red flags and chanting slogans, the demonstrators marched from Frankfurter Tor through Berlin’s streets before laying carnations at the socialists’ monument in Friedrichsfelde Central Cemetery. “I think those people had a critique of capitalism and they were also intellectuals, and they were c