German Workers News Today

Right now the country of “co-determination” is simultaneously facing an eight-day “action week” by irate farmers, who blocked roads with tractors, a three-day strike of railway workers and, to top it off, a looming strike of doctors, who already closed surgeries between Christmas and New Year’s Day.

 

A survey of the main events and the limits of working class activity during the Revolution.

Article: On Fascism: Its Definition in its Historical Context, for 2023, Part 2 - This is Part 2 of this lengthy (for OpEdNews) review of fascism and what it is, and isnt, in its historical context. It is indeed on its way to happening here. There might be, as some on the left in the U.S. appear to think there could be, a Trump Left. Who knows? Although it is not apparent to many observers, some seem to be thinking along those lines. But, Warnung. Dont look to Nazi Germany for an example.

Friedrich A. Sorge was the leading Marxist in the United States in the post-Civil War era, an intimate colleague and constant correspondent of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, the General Secretary of the International Workingmen’s Association from 1872 to 1874, and a man who was personally involved in many of the events he was discussing in Die Neue Zeit. In short, these articles comprise a basic source for understanding the development of the American labor movement.

Bakunin makes an early and powerful critique of the statist, reformist, class-collaborationist and counter-revolutionary tendencies of emerging social democracy.

An account of the emergence of the KPD (The German Communist Party) in the early days of the German Revolution - as a break from the Social Democratic Party - through its decline and transformation into a tool of the Russian Bolshevik regime.

When I worked for VOA — actually the International Broadcasting Bureau, later called the Broadcasting Board of Governors and then the U.S. Agency for Global Media — I believe upper management thought people in Djibouti had high-speed internet and laptop computers. In reality they lived largely in small huts made from corrugated roofing iron. They were lucky to have a radio.

Gorter responds with radical criticism to the reformist programme advocated by Lenin - i.e., for European communists to work within their Parliaments and existing unions.

An account of the decline and crushing of the anarcho-syndicalist trade union the FAUD in Hitler's Germany.