Page 2 - Kapp Putsch News Today

National political director, and lord peter ricketts, former uk ambassador to paris and national security advisor. welcome back. let me read you the news from berlin. the german government has put down an attempted coup. the plotters were intending to put an autocratic government in place, supported by parts of the german military, as well as nationalist and monarchist factions. that was a report from march 1920. the kapp putsch, one of the first rebellions against the weimar republic. but the r...

Havana, Dec 6 (Prensa Latina) The failure of the far-right Kapp Putsch in Berlin, which lasted from the 13th to the 17th of March 1920, unfortunately did not discredit the new Nazi ideology taking root in Germany.

This column profiles important historical events which took place during this week, 25 years ago, 50 years ago, 75 years ago and 100 years ago.

Various authors - Those who now tolerate a Russian victory also tolerate a victory for both global and “domestic” fossil and commodity-based capital, which is closely intertwined with the Russian fossil and extractive sectors. Therefore, a new anti-militarist movement must uphold solidarity with the civil as well as armed resistance of the Ukrainian people, and with the Ukrainian, Belarusian and Russian leftists who oppose the Putin regime’s war.

“Those who now tolerate a Russian victory also tolerate a victory for both global and “domestic” fossil and commodity-based capital, which is closely intertwined with the Russian fossil and extractive sectors. Therefore, a new anti-militarist movement must uphold solidarity with the civil as well as armed resistance of the Ukrainian people, and with the Ukrainian, Belarusian and Russian leftists who oppose the Putin regime's war.”

On June 9, Junge Welt published an article advocating an "anti-militarist defeatism" and the abandonment of Ukraine's military resistance to the Russian war of occupation.[1] We take their article as an opportunity for a fundamental response about a necessary anti-imperialist, ecosocialist perspective committed to global solidarity.

Detailed information, including first hand reports on the founding in 1920 of the KAPD (Kommunistische Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands - Communist Workers Party of Germany), written by the Communist Workers Organisation in 1998-2000, with notes.

A short biography of German communist Max Hoelz, known as the Red Robin Hood for his daring acts expropriating from the rich to distribute to workers and the unemployed.

An account of Franz Seiwert and the 'Cologne Progressives', a group or circle of artists who followed and participated in the radical currents around the German council communist organisations AAU and especially the AAU-E. The 'Cologne Progressives' may be the most radical group of artists ever.

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