KAPD
Kommunistische Arbeiter-Partei Deutschlands (Communist Workers Party of Germany), a councilist split from the Communist Party in 1920 who would be instrumental in defining the German-Dutch model of left communism.
The Communist Workers Party of Germany (KAPD) in Retrospect - Bernard Reichenbach
Bernard Reichenbach: The KAPD in Retrospect - An Interview with a Member of the Communist Workers Party of Germany
Revolutionary History, Vol. 5, No. 2 Spring 1994
Meetings in the Kremlin in Moscow 1921 - interview with Bernhard Reichenbach
An interview conducted in 1964 with former KAPD (Communist Workers Party of Germany) member Bernhard Reichenbach about the 1921 Communist International Congress in Moscow, after which the KAPD withdrew from the Comintern.
Moscow 1921 - Meetings in the Kremlin
(Interview with Bernhard Reichenbach - 1964)
L.K. Do you remember your visit to Moscow in 1921 clearly? What were your first impressions?
On the Founding of the KAPD
Detailed information, including first hand reports on the founding in 1920 of the KAPD (Kommunistische Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands - Communist Workers Party of Germany), written by the Communist Workers Organisation in 1998-2000, with notes
Appeal to the Proletariat of Germany!
Appeal to German workers from the Kommunistische Arbeiter-Partei Deutschlands (KAPD - Communist Workers Party of Germany) on the 4th August 1920, with added notes
Report from Moscow, 3rd International congress, 1920 - Otto Ruhle
In 1920 the newly formed KAPD sent a delegation (Franz Jung and Jan Appel) to Moscow to negotiate with the Executive of the III. International and participate at its second congress. As nothing clear was heard from the delegation a second team was sent - Otto Rühle and August Merges.
Bernard Reichenbach:The KAPD in Retrospect - An Interview with a Member of the Communist Workers Party of Germany
Revolutionary History, Vol. 5, No. 2 Spring 1994
We have omitted the footnotes from this text as they are mainly short biographies of people in the text. This interview first appeared in Solidarity Vol. 6 no.2 when Reichanbach was a militant in the anti-parliamentary Left in Germany. He was interviewed by Rudi Dutschke (RH)
The German Workers' Councils
Introduction to the KAPD
Communist Workers' Party of Germany (Kommunistischen Arbeiter-Partei Deutschlands, KAPD), 1920-?
Founded in 1920, the KAPD was a left-wing, more radical council communist split from the German Communist Party (KPD).
Members: Herman Gorter, Paul Mattick, Otto Ruhle
Links on libcom.org
KAPD texts
Writings of Herman Gorter
Writings of Paul Mattick
Writings of Otto Ruhle
KAPD search results on libcom.org
Otto Ruhle and the German Labour Movement - by Paul Mattick
Paul Mattick critically analyses Otto Rühle's role in the German Revolution.
Manifesto of the German Anti Parliamentarians to the Proletariat of the World
Origins of the KAPD
Comrades ! Proletarians !
Autobiography of Jan Appel
Jan Appel, 1890-1945, was a German socialist and shipyard worker whose experience of the 1918 Revolution, after which he hijacked a steam ship to Russia, drove him out of the Communist Party.
Joining the more radical Communist Workers Party (KAPD), he then moved to Holland, playing a role in the Dutch Resistance in World War II and and eventually co-founding the left-communist GIK.
By Jan Appel, 1966
