Kommunistische Arbeiter-Partei Deutschlands (KAPD)

Content by or about the Kommunistische Arbeiter-Partei Deutschlands (Communist Workers Party of Germany; KAPD).

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).

Workers councils in the German revolution, an discussion between Rudi Dutschke and Bernhard Reichenbach

Discussion and analysis with a member of the KAPD on the party and its activity.

The KAPD and the proletarian movement – Jacques Camatte

A 1971 essay on the KAPD, its positive features (its break with the ideology and practice of social…

Leaving the swamp - L'Ouvrier Communiste

An article published in August, 1929 in L'Ouvrier Communiste (the Communist Worker) issue no. 1, which was the journal of the Communist Workers'…

Marxism in a lost century: a biography of Paul Mattick - Gary Roth

Retells the history of the radical left during the twentieth century through the words and deeds of…

Otto Rühle

The revolution is not a party affair - Otto Rühle

This article was written in May 1920 and was first published in the German paper Die Aktion. This translation first appeared in the London…

Jan Appel - Communist Bulletin Group

A short biography of Jan Appel, a German council communist.

Towards a history of the German Communist Workers Party (KAPD) - Communist Bulletin Group

A history of the German Communist Workers Party (KAPD), a council communist…

Left-wing splinter parties in the Weimar Republic

A 1974 dissertation on various left-wing radical groups in Weimar Republic era Germany.

The Second Congress of the KAPD

Article from Revolutionary Perspectives #16 (Series 3), the journal of the Communist Workers’ Organisation.

Gorter’s Open Letter: the details - Serge Bricianer

Serge Bricianer on German left communist Herman Gorter's 'Open letter to comrade Lenin, A reply to “left-wing” communism, an infantile disorder'.

Solidarity: for workers' power (Aberdeen) #03

Issue 3 of the magazine of Solidarity (Aberdeen) with articles on Consolidated Pneumatic, the KAPD and the German revolution, housing in Aberdeen, technology and workers' control. From around 1968.