Die Rote Fahne

Die Rote Fahne
Die Rote Fahne header from 23 November 1918
TypeDaily newspaper
Founder(s)Wilhelm Hasselmann, Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, Paul Frölich
Founded1876 (1876)
Political alignmentCommunist
LanguageGerman
CountryGermany

Die Rote Fahne (German: [diː ˈʁoːtə ˈfaːnə], The Red Flag) was a German newspaper originally founded in 1876 by Socialist Worker's Party leader Wilhelm Hasselmann, and which has been since published on and off, at times underground, by German Socialists and Communists. Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg famously published it in 1918 as organ of the Spartacus League.

Following the deaths of Liebknecht and Luxemburg during the chancellorship of the Social Democratic Party of Germany's Friedrich Ebert, the newspaper was published by the Communist Party of Germany with some interruptions. Banned by the Nazi Party's government of Adolf Hitler after 1933, publication continued illegally, underground.

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