Spartacist
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German communist Rosa Luxemburg was the leader of the Social Democratic Party and the Spartacus Party in the late 1890s–early 1900s.
Member of a group of left-wing radicals in Germany at the end of World War I, founders of the Spartacus League, which became the German Communist Party in 1919. The league participated in the Berlin workers' revolt of January 1919, which was suppressed by the Freikorps on the orders of the socialist government. The agitation ended with the murder of Spartacist leaders Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg.
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