page_title: Henriette Roland Holst
section_title: Socialism
hierarchical_section_title: Henriette Roland Holst / Socialism
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Henriëtte Roland Holst, Lindenplein Noordwijk
context_page_description: Henriette Goverdine Anna "Jet" Roland Holst-van der Schalk was a Dutch poet and council communist. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
  The poet Adriaan Roland Holst, nicknamed "the Dutch Prince of Poets", was the nephew of her husband.
context_section_description: At the age of 27 Roland Holst joined the SDAP. She was then working night after night in smoky halls calling for workers' struggle to improve their miserable fate. She became part of the party leadership and, in 1900, was delegated to the Second International. At the conferences of the International, she came into contact with prominent Marxists such as Karl Liebknecht, Rosa Luxemburg, and Leon Trotsky.
  In 1911, Roland Holst had joined as an orthodox Marxist in the SDAP. Unlike most other orthodox Marxists, she did not immediately move over to the Social-Democratic Party (SDP, later known as the Communist Party of the Netherlands [CPN]). Against the advice of Rosa Luxemburg in some years she remained non-partisan. She founded in 1915, along with a number of SDAP and SDP members, the Revolutionair Socialistische Vereeniging. While in the CPN, she sided with Herman Gorter, Anton Pannekoek, and the left communist fraction of the party.
  "Rode Jet" (meaning "Red Jet", a nickname of Roland Holst) also played a role during the revolutionary turmoil of November 1918. On 13 November she went with David Wijnkoop at the head of a procession on the Orange-Nassau barracks in Amsterdam, to celebrate the brotherhood with the hussars. Intervention by the security forces resulted in two dead, the only victims of the "revolution that did not happen".
  In 1927 she broke with the CPN. She later joined the Communist Workers' Party of the Netherlands, a council communist party.
caption: Bust of Henriette Roland Holst at the Lindenplein, Noordwijk
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