The Revolutionary Contribution of Paul Mattick
Review of Marxism in a Lost Century: A Biography of Paul Mattick by Garry Roth (Haymarket Books/Historical Materialism Series).
The Real Cause of the Beginning and End of WWI
A Hundred Years Since the Murder of Luxemburg and Liebknecht
On this day [15 January] exactly a century ago Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht were brutally murdered in cold blood by Freikorps troops under the command of the Social Democratic Party. It decapitated the leadership of the young German Communist Party which then oscillated between putschism and opportunism for the rest of its existence. The consequences were that the world revolution, which the revolutionaries in Russia had counted on, did not take place.
Rosa Luxemburg or: The Price of Freedom
Part of a series of biographies on Rosa Luxemburg
Translated biography
Rosa Luxemburg: The Biography
Part of a series of biographies of Rosa Luxemburg
1962 edition
2 volumes
The Significance of the German Revolution
A Hundred Years On: Lessons of the German Revolution
9 November is an auspicious date in the German historical calendar. 80 years ago this was the anniversary of Kristallnacht (the Night of Broken Glass) when synagogues were burned and 10,000 Jewish males were marched to concentration camps. It was the first step on the road to the genocide of millions. 28 years ago it was the day that the GDR authorities announced the dismantling of the Berlin Wall. However, a century ago it was also the date when the Kaiser announced his abdication in the face of a workers’ revolution which had begun with mutinies in Kiel before spreading across Germany.
The untold history of armistice and the end of World War I
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