Kommunistische Arbeiter-Partei Deutschlands (KAPD)

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

Jan Appel

Jan Appel on the Unemployment Issue

Short presentation by Jan Appel on the Unemployment Issue at the 1921 Berlin Extraordinary Public Party Congress of the KAPD. This text also…

KAPD First Congress

Against National Bolshevism. Against Hamburg Tendency!

A collections of the interventions and opinions of various party members at the First Ordinary Party…

German Revolution

Guidelines for Reconnaissance, Liaison, Security, Support of Combat Organizations (KO)

A follow-up of the previous document regarding the statutes of the KOs. This text, which was also…

German Revolution

Statutes for the Combat Organizations (KO) of the KAPD

Presented at the founding congress of the KAPD, this document talks about codes that the less-known…

Nation and International

Nation and International

Short pamphlet by the Council Communist and KAPD foreman Arthur Goldstein against the idea of "federation of free nations" of the National…

Für die Betriebsorganisationen by Franz Wilhelm Seiwert

Bourgeois and Proletarian Organization

Short text from the KAPD Berlin about the importance of "form of organization" in the proletarian revolution. This criticizes the well known…

"We are going to vote" by Felixmüller

Socialism as a Commodity

Text from the KAPD Berlin which explores the growing commodity character of the Old Parliamentary-Union Workers' Movement. Originally published…

Gerd Arntz

Legality and Mass Action

A very short article from the KAPD Berlin critiquing Trade Unions for being the bearers and transmission belts of legal-fetishism. Originally…

Workers and Class Consciousness

An article by the Berlin Tendency of KAPD regarding the relation of workers to class consciousness. Originally published in three parts in the …

Kommunistische Arbeiter-Zeitung

It's about the Cause

A short anti-critique by the Berlin Tendency of the KAPD directed towards the AAUE's critique of the "party" nature of KAPD. Originally published…

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.