âYET ANOTHER PERIODICAL IN BREMENââ
No. 141 (June 19, 1916)âprints the appeal to subscribe to
Arbeiterpolitik
(a radical Left weekly).
Notes
[1]
International Socialists of Germany
(
Internationale Sozialisten Deutschlands
)âa group of German Left-wing Social-Democrats who during the First World War united round the magazine
Lichtstrahlen
(Rays), published in Berlin from 1913 to 1921. Without wide contacts with the masses, the group quickly fell apart.
The
Internationale
groupâa revolutionary organisation of German Left Social-Democrats, founded at the beginning of the First World War by Karl Liebknecht, Rosa Luxemburg, Franz Mehring, Clara Zetkin, Julian Marchlewski, Leo Jogiches (Tyszka), and Wilhelm Pieck. In April 1915 Rosa Luxemburg and Franz Mehring started the magazine
Die Internationale
, which united the main Left Social-Democrat forces. At the All-German Conference of Left Social-Democrats in Berlin on January 1, 1916, the organisation was formalised and the name
Internationale
Group adopted. In 1916, in addition to the political leaflets it had been issuing, it began illegal publication and distribution of âPolitical Lettersâ signed âSpartacusâ (they came out regularly until October 1918), and the group began to be called the âSpartacusâ group.
The Spartacists conducted revolutionary propaganda among the masses, organised mass anti-war demonstrations, led strikes and exposed the imperialist nature of the world war and the treachery of the opportunist Social-Democratic leaders. However, they committed serious errors in matters of theory and tactics.
In April 1917, the Spartacists joined the centrist Independent Social-Democratic Party of Germany, but preserved their organisational independence. During the November 1918 German revolution, the Spartacists broke with the Independents and formed the Spartacus League, and on December 14, 1918 published their programme. At the Inaugural Congress (December 30, 1918-January. 1, 1919) the Spartacists founded the Communist Party of Germany. Lenin repeatedly criticised the errors of the German Left Social-Democrats and pointed to their inconsistency, but he highly valued their revolutionary work.
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