The Real Cause of the Beginning and End of WWI
Submitted by Internationalis... on Nov 11 2019 14:12
Explanations of the cause of WW1 and its ending are always carefully avoided every year as regularly as the commemoration itself.
What is Dadaism and what does it want in Germany? - Dadaist Revolutionary Central Council
Manifesto written by Richard Huelsenbeck and Raoul Hausmann, first published in 'Der Dada 1' (1919), in the context of the unfolding, German revolution.
A Hundred Years Since the Murder of Luxemburg and Liebknecht
Submitted by Internationalis... on Jan 18 2019 14:59
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
Biographies of and works about Rosa Luxemburg - reading guide
Book length or pamphlet length (10,000 words+) or otherwise notable biographies of the life of and works about Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919) with considerable reference to her politics in chronological order. No works by Luxemburg except in edited collections or extracts.
The Significance of the German Revolution
Submitted by Internationalis... on Nov 24 2018 16:58
Reflections on the CWO/ICT Public Meeting in London (November 17 2018).
A Hundred Years On: Lessons of the German Revolution
Submitted by Internationalis... on Nov 10 2018 13:05
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
Submitted by Jared on Nov 10 2018 04:20
‘The best antidote to ideology is detail,’ writes Paul Mason. And the detail that’s missing this Armistice Day is that working people, when they take power into their own hands, can end whatever catastrophe is imposed on them.
Lest We Forget: Workers Stopped Capitalism’s First World War
Submitted by Internationalis... on Nov 7 2018 11:33
The 100th anniversary of the Armistice, which we are told put a stop to the first world war, happens to coincide with remembrance Sunday, or Poppy Day. So we’re in for a treat. On top of poppy-wearing – now almost de rigueur – and two minute silences in the most improbable places, there are some smashing events in store. While local volunteers polish up war memorials, craft red poppy memorabilia, there are all sorts of state-sponsored celebrations, to mark the 11th hour of the eleventh day, in November 1918 when “the guns fell silent”.
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