Chanie Rosenberg

Chanie Rosenberg (20 April 1922 – June 2021) was a South African-born artist, teacher and socialist. She was the sister of Michael Kidron, the partner of Tony Cliff, and a founder member of the Socialist Workers Party in Britain.

Life Chanie Rosenberg was born in South Africa to a Jewish Zionist family originally from Lithuania. A relative was the poet Isaac Rosenberg. She studied Hebrew at Cape Town University. She was also an artist whose sculpture has been exhibited in the Royal Academy of Arts.

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)