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DESIRABLE LITERATURE (PUBLICATIONS FROM GERMANY)

I. Pamphlets and proceedings of all parties and
conferences of the following political trends:

1) Communists,

2) Kommunistische Arbeiter Partei
Deutschlands, [1]

3) anarchists and syndicalists,

4) from among the Partei independents (Leftists and
Rightists).

II. Novels and stories of the Clarté group [5] trend (like
Latzko, etc.)—pacifist-critical, assessment of the imperialist war, conclusions, etc.

III. Economics of the present day: results of the war, economic rehabilitation, post-war problems in industry,
in agriculture, etc. (especially pamphlets, books and proceedings).

IV. Subscribe to several copies for the Comintern, for 4–6 university and other libraries etc.

Rote Fahne [2]

KAPD [3]
Hamburger Volkszeitung , [4] list of new books in every branch etc.

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Notes:
[1]
Communist Workers’ Party of Germany.— Ed.

[2]
Red Banner .— Ed.

[3]
Kommunistische Arbeiter Partei Deutschlands.— Ed.

[4]
Hamburg People’s Newspaper. — Ed.

[5]
Clarté , an international group of progressive West European
writers, set up by Henri Barbusse in 1919 on the basis of the
Association Républicaine des Anciens Combattants of France which
was later joined by similar groups in other countries to form the
Internationale des Anciens Combattants. The group published a
monthly journal under the some name (it appeared in Paris at
intervals from October 1919 to January 1928). When Barbusse
resigned as its editor (in April 1924), the journal ceased to be
progressive and in 1928 went out of circulation, while the group
broke up.