Kommunistische Arbeiter-Partei Deutschlands (KAPD)

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

Bernard Reichenbach:The KAPD in retrospect - An interview with a member of the Communist Workers Party of Germany

A former member of the anti-parliamentary, councilist KAPD describes his…

Rosa Luxemburg

Anti-Bolshevist Communism in Germany - Paul Mattick

The council-communist Paul Mattick looks back at the German revolution he participated in.

Max Hoelz

Hoelz, Max, 1889-1933

A short biography of German communist Max Hoelz, known as the Red Robin Hood for his daring acts expropriating from the rich to distribute to…

Appel, Jan, 1890-1985

A short autobiography of Jan Appel, aka Jan Arndt, a German libertarian communist and shipyard worker who most famously hijacked a steam ship to…

Lenin addresses the third congress of the Comintern, June 28, July 1 or 5 1921

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…

A poster from the KAPD against parliamentarism

On the Founding of the KAPD

Detailed information, including first hand reports on the founding in 1920 of the KAPD (Kommunistische Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands - Communist…

Appeal to the Proletariat of Germany!

Report from Moscow, 3rd International congress, 1920 - Otto Ruhle

Introduction to the KAPD

Otto Rühle

Otto Ruhle and the German labour movement - 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

German Revolution

Autobiography of Jan Appel

Jan Appel, 1890-1985, was a German socialist and shipyard worker whose experience of the 1918 Revolution, after which he hijacked a steam ship to…