Lessons of the German Revolution, London CWO Meeting, 17/11/18

Submitted by Dyjbas on November 1, 2018

Lessons of the German Revolution
Public Meeting/Discussion organised by the Communist Workers’ Organisation

On November 9 1918 the soldiers, sailors and workers of Kiel and Wilhelmshaven rose in revolt at the continuation of a war which had brought nothing but death, disease and food shortages. Within hours the Kaiser was overthrown and workers’ councils sprang up all over Germany in imitation of those that had taken power in Russia only a year earlier.

For communists at the time it offered the hope of a further step in the world proletarian revolution. That hope even survived the crushing of the Spartakist Revolt and the murder of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg in January 1919. The revolutionary resistance of the working class carried on for some years but in the end the German state was not overthrown. The meeting will explore the failure of the German revolution, the consequences for the world working class then and the lessons for current revolutionaries.

A comrade of the Gruppe Internationaler SozialistInnen will be making a presentation alongside the CWO.

Time: 17 November, 2.30pm
Place: Calthorpe Arms, 252 Grays Inn Rd, London WC1X 8JR

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Dyjbas

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Submitted by Dyjbas on November 21, 2018

Meeting went really well, thanks to everyone who attended. There will probably be a report up on our website sometime soon.

Alf

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Submitted by Alf on November 21, 2018

I want to repeat the invitation we made at the end, addressed to all at the meeting: come and continue the discussion at the ICC meeting on Saturday, at the May Day rooms, 2pm-6pm. The discussion at the CWO meeting raised many key issues, including some important disagreements, and they are all certainly worth debating further

Of course the invitation is more inclusive than that.