Kommunistische Arbeiter-Partei Deutschlands (KAPD)

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

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.

Towards a history of the German Communist Workers Party (KAPD) - Communist Bulletin Group

A history of the German Communist Workers Party (KAPD), a council communist…

Left-wing splinter parties in the Weimar Republic

A 1974 dissertation on various left-wing radical groups in Weimar Republic era Germany.

The Second Congress of the KAPD

Article from Revolutionary Perspectives #16 (Series 3), the journal of the Communist Workers’ Organisation.

Gorter’s Open Letter: the details - Serge Bricianer

Serge Bricianer on German left communist Herman Gorter's 'Open letter to comrade Lenin, A reply to “left-wing” communism, an infantile disorder'.

Solidarity: for workers' power (Aberdeen) #03

Issue 3 of the magazine of Solidarity (Aberdeen) with articles on Consolidated Pneumatic, the KAPD and the German revolution, housing in Aberdeen, technology and workers' control. From around 1968.

Paul Mattick and Council Communism - Claudio Pozzoli

Notes by Claudio Pozzoli on Paul Mattick, council communism and in particular its differences with left communism.