Kommunistische Arbeiter-Partei Deutschlands (KAPD)

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

International Federation of Trade Unions

The Trade Union Congress in Paris

By the Council Communist and KAPD member Ernst Biedermann, this article is about the 4th IFTU Congress and also a critique of Trade Unionism…

German Soldiers

The Stahlhelm Democracy

Article by the Council Communist and KAPD member Ernst Biedermann about the collaboration between bourgeois and fascist-military groups and rise…

Hindenburg, Reichswehr and Seeckt

Seeckt's Red Reichswehr

By the Council Communist and KAPD member Ernst Biedermann, this text is about about collaboration between the USSR and Germany which came into…

German revolution, 1918-1919.

May Day 1927

Article by the Council Communist and KAPD member Ernst Bierdermann for May Day in 1927. Originally published in "Der Proletarier, May 1927, No. 4/5".

KAJD

Theses on the Youth Question

By the youth wing of the KAPD, the Kommunistische Arbeiter Jugend, this text talks about the role of youth in revolution and revolutionary…

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"Red" Works Councils

Short article by the KAPD where they sketch out their opposition to the legal statutory works councils and the mutilation of the Council Idea…

Russia and Reichswehr

Russia and the Reichswehr

One of the many texts by the KAPD published during the "Grenade Affair" about the collaboration between the Bolsheviks and Reichswehr and the KPD…

The Leuna Works

The Easter Uprising in Mansfeld (Franz Jung’s reminiscences of the March Action)

The following text is a translation of Franz Jung’s recollections of and reflections on the March…

The Leuna Works

Franz Jung’s reflections on the March Action

The file below is a transcribed (German) version of an excerpt taken from Jung’s memoirs. Originally published as part of his autobiography "Der…

Techonology

Machine Slavery or Technology?

Article by Jan Appel where he critiques the production method and underlying forms of technology under capitalism. It also critiques the Russian…

Max Bauer

The Fascist Colonel Bauer and the Bolsheviks

Short text by the KAPD on the collaboration between Colonel Max Bauer, a leader of the far-right Kapp Putsch, and the Bolsheviks which came into…

Left Opposition

Myasnikov on the Trotskyists

Letter from the Russian Council Communist Gavril Myasnikov to the French Council Communist Group L' Ouvrier Communiste regarding the Trotskyist…