Kommunistische Arbeiter-Partei Deutschlands (KAPD)

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

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.

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.