Kommunistische Arbeiter-Partei Deutschlands (KAPD)

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

The KAPD’s report on the third congress of the Communist International

Report presented at the meeting of the KAPD Central Committee on July 31, 1921, by a KAPD delegate…

Program of the AAUD

Program of the General Workers' Union of Germany, adopted at their third national conference in Leipzig, December 12-14, 1920.

Opening of 2nd Congress of the CI

The Communist Left and the resolutions of the second congress of the Communist International - Henriette Roland-Holst

Dutch communist Roland-Holst argues against using the objective and subjective…

The communist left in Germany 1918-1921 - Gilles Dauvé and Denis Authier

A analysis of the revolutionary movements in Europe at the end of World War I, their contradictions…

Wilhelmshaven revolt

Schneider, Ernst Wilhelm, (1883-1963) Aka Ikarus

A short biography of the German revolutionary seaman Ernst Schneider

Theses on the role of the party in the proletarian revolution - KAPD

The KAPD’s Theses on the Party were written in July 1921 to be discussed not only in the party but…

Schwab, Alexander aka Sachs, 1887 -1943

A short biography of council communist and organiser of underground networks, Alexander Schwab, who died in a Nazi concentration camp.

Alfred Weiland

Weiland, Alfred, 1906-1978

A short biography of council communist, organiser of underground network, Alfred Weiland, kidnapped by the East German state in the post war…

Lenin’s Infantile Disorder. . .and the Third International - Franz Pfempfert

Franz Pfempfert comments on Lenin's infamous pamphlet, Left-Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder.

Herman Gorter

The lessons of the “March action” - Herman Gorter

The Lessons of the “March Action” - Gorter’s last letter to Lenin

Plakat der KPD zur Reichstagswahl vom 6. Juni 1920.

Programme of the Communist Workers Party of Germany (KAPD), 1920

May 1920 programme of the party, with appended background and information notes

René Riesel, left, with Daniel Cohn-Bendit.

Preliminaries on councils and councilist organization - René Riesel

A look at workers' councils and the historical contexts in which they were created. A useful…