- The Accumulation of Capital
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1913
Rosa Luxemburg's analysis of the inherent contradictions of capitalist accumulation.
- The Acheron in Motion
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1918
The healthy class instinct of the proletariat rebels against the schema of parliamentary cretinism. 'The liberation of the working class must be the work of the working class itself,' says the Communist Manifesto. And the'working class' is not a few hundred elected representatives who control society's destiny with speeches and rebuttals.
- Age of Extremes
The Short Twentieth Century 1914 - 1991
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
A overview of the history of the years 1914 - 1991.
- Als Feuer vom Himmel fiel
Der Bombenkrieg gegen die Deutschen
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2003
- Anti-Socialist Laws
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Were a series of acts, the first of which was passed on October 19, 1878 by the German Reichstag for a limited term, and the later ones regularly extending the term of its application.
- Badische Revolution
Wikipedia article
Resource Type: Article
Unter der Badischen Revolution von 1848/1849 versteht man den regionalen Ablauf der fast ganz Mitteleuropa erfassenden revolutionären Unruhen dieser Jahre im Großherzogtum Baden.
- Beating the fascists? The German Communists and political violence 1929-1933
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Eve Rosenhaft examines the involvement of Communist Party militants in political violence against Nazis during the years of Hitler's rise to power in Germany (1929-33). Specifically, she aims to account for their participation in 'street-fighting' or 'gang-fighting' with National Socialist storm-troopers.
- Before the Deluge: A Portrait of Berlin in the 1920s
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1995
Author depticts the turbulent political, social, and cultural life of the city of Berlin in the 1920s.
- The Beginning
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1918
Revolutions do not stand still. Their vital law is to advance rapidly, to outgrow themselves.
- Berlin Blockade
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
- Bernstein and the Marxism of the Second International
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1972
An essay from the collection entitled From Rouseau to Lenin: Studies in Ideology and Society, First published as Ideologia e Societá by Editori Laterza, Rome, Italy.
- Blood and Belonging
Journey into the New Nationalism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
Essays on nationalism in Serbia, Croatia, Germany, Ukraine, Quebec, Kurdistan, and Northern Ireland.
- Briefe aus dem Gefangnis
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1946
- A Call to the Workers of the World
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1918
Humanity is facing the alternative: Dissolution and downfall in capitalist anarchy, or regeneration through the social revolution.
- Class Composition and the Theory of the Party at the Origin of the Workers-Councils Movement
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1972
Re-examines a crucial segment of labour history, the German workers' council experience, which bridges the classical socialist phase of the Second and Third Internationals, and the post-Keynesian period.
- The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume I
Economic Writings 1
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2013
This first volume in Rosa Luxemburg's Complete Works, entitled Economic Writings 1, contains some of Luxemburg's most important statements on the globalization of capital, wage labour, imperialism, and pre-capitalist economic formations.
- Concerning Morocco
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1911
The duty of Social Democracy is not to reassure public opinion, but to do the very reverse, to rouse it and warn it against the dangers lying dormant in it such adventures in international politics today. It is not enough for us to rely on the pacific intentions of some capitalist clique as a factor in achieving peace; we can only count on the resistance of the enlightened masses. By obeying the order to keep our peace, incidentally, we would be seen to be falling in with the wishes of the rulers of the Moroccan policy.
- Could Punching Nazis Have Prevented Hitler From Taking Power
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
There have been repeated references to how Nazism could have been stopped by street-fighting, with almost no attention paid to the concrete socio-political conditions of Germany between 1920 and 1933. For many of those who think that physical force was the key to stopping Nazism, the viral video of Richard Spencer getting punched in the face was far more important as a guide to action than understanding the tragic history of the German left.
- Critique of the Gotha Programme
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1875
Karl Marx's criticisms of the programme adopted by congress to unite the two German socialist parties in 1875.
- Deutschland nach dem Kriege
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1985
- "Displaced Persons". Ein vergessenes Kapitel der deutschen Nachkriegsgeschichte
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1995
At the end of the Second World War, the three western zones of Germany contained approximately 7 million "displaced person".
- 300 Jahre St. Ottilien Dorfgeschichte
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
- Eichmann in Jerusalem
A report on the banality of evil
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1965
Hannah Arendt's report on the trial of Adolph Eichmann.
- Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit
in der deutschen Geschichte und Gegenwart
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
- Either Or
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1916
It is a question of either-or! Either we nakedly and shamelessly betray the International or we take the International in deadly seriousness and attempt to extend it into a firm stronghold, a bulwark, of the international socialist proletariat and of world peace.
- The Elections to the National Assembly
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1918
The great confrontation between capital and labour will determine the course of future history and, in its final result, admits of no other decision than the destruction of capitalist rule and the triumph of socialism.
- Erfurt Program
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Program was adopted by the Social Democratic Party of Germany during the SPD congress at Erfurt in 1891.
- Exiled in Paradise
German Refugee Artists and Intellectuals in America From the 1930's to the Present
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1983
- Fascism and Big Busness
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
A history of the rise of fascism in Europe and the role of big business in supporting fascism.
- Die Flucht
Uber die Vertreibing der Deutschen aus dem Osten
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2002
- For a Workers' United Front Against Fascism
What's Wrong With the Current Policy of the German Communist Party?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1932
Germany is now passing through one of those great historic hours upon which the fate of the German people, the fate of Europe, and in significant measure the fate of all humanity, will depend for decades. If you place a ball on top of a pyramid, the slightest impact can cause it to roll down either to the left or to the right. That is the situation approaching with every hour in Germany today. There are forces which would like the bail to roll down towards the right and break the back of the working class. There are forces which would like the ball to remain at the top. That is a utopia. The ball cannot remain at the top of the pyramid. The Communists want the ball to roll down toward the left and break the back of capitalism. But it is not enough to want; one must know how.
- Francis Daniel Pastorius
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Francis Daniel Pastorius (September 26, 1651-1720) was a German born educator, lawyer, poet, and public official, who is particularly known for his anti-slavery advocacy.
- German Catholics and Hitler's Wars
A study in social control
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
Why did German Catholics (along with other Christian groups) lend almost complete support to Hitler's wars of conquest? Why is there a record of only a handful of Catholic conscientious objectors to Hitler's aggression?
- German denial of Herero genocide
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The Germans’ inhuman treatment of the Namibian delegation is only the most recent in a long history of injustice and disrespect towards African peoples. It is more than time, writes Saunders Jumah, for Africans to stand together, demand fair and equal treatment according to international law, and refuse exploitation by anyone.
- German guards convicted of killing escaper
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1992
Two former East German border guards were convicted of killing a person who attempted to escape over the wall. This will open the floodgates for similar trials as two hundred were killed trying to escape under the East German shoot to kill policy.
- The German Revolution (World Revolution for Beginners Part III)
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
It's really important to understand that the Nazis made real appeals to the working class, not very successfully, but they considered themselves to be a party that was for a workers' revolution, but for a German Workers Revolution. So, that’s something often lost in translation when people just say "Nazis" or "National Socialists".
- The German Revolution, 1917-1923
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2006
- German Revolution History Archive
Resource Type: Website
A history archive dedicated to the documentation, analysis and interpretation of the events surrounding the German workers revolutions of 1918 through 1923.
- German Revolution of 1918-19
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
The politically-driven civil conflict in Germany at the end of World War I.
- Germany and Britain: Memory and Myopia
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Ernst Barlach was one of Germany's great expressionist artists of the early twentieth century. A virulent nationalist in the run-up to the First World War, Barlach found that his experience of the Western Front stripped him of his jingoism. Much of his subsequent work explored the sorrow and suffering that he saw as the human condition.
- Germany and Genocide in Namibia
Special Issue of Pambazuka News - #577 - March 2012
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2012
Between 1904 and 1908 imperial Germany waged an atrocious and inhumane war of extermination against the Herero, Nama, Damara and San peoples in its former colony ‘German South West Africa’, now the Republic of Namibia.
- Germany: Confronting the colonial roots of racism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
The Nazis didn't fall out of the sky, there is a deeper racist, xenophobic mindset in German history.
- Germany and European Civilization
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1944
From at least the time of the publication of Capital to the present day, all political and social thought, particularly in Europe, have revolved around the ideas of Marxism. And these ideas were nourished, developed, propagated and defended above all by the German proletariat. Not only the revolutionary movement but modern thought owes the German workers a debt which it can never repay. So far has Marxism penetrated into the thought of the time that today the ideas of hundreds of thousands of intellectuals, who consider themselves anti-Marxists, have validity only to the extent that they have borrowed or unconsciously assimilated the very ideas which they oppose.
- Germany's genocide in Namibia
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Germany, which has done commendable remembrance work about the Holocaust, seems to have forgotten or deliberately buried its violent colonial past. A past that hides the first genocide of the 20th century.
- Gestapo
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
- The Great Transformation
The political and economic origins of our time
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1968
Polanyi analyzes the social and political upheavals that took place in England during the rise of the market economy. Polanyi contends that the modern market economy and the modern nation-state should be understood not as discrete elements, but as a single human invention he calls the "Market Society".
- Gustav Noske befiehlt den Einmarsch in Berlin
Resource Type: Article
Zwar waren am 13. Januar die Kämpfe zwischen den bereits in Berlin agierenden Regierungstruppen und Spartakus-Verbänden zu deren Ungunsten entschieden, doch wurden weiterhin zusätzliche Truppen von außerhalb gesammelt, um in die Stadt einzumarschieren. Die Freikorps, wie jenes von Bernhard von Hülsen, welches laut dem unten stehenden Aufruf gegen den Bolschewismus und für die Nationalversammlung kämpfte, wurden an mehreren Bürgerkriegsschauplätzen eingesetzt und waren für verschiedene Kriegsverbrechen verantwortlich.
- Heimat Ostpreussen
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1949
- The History of the German Resistance 1933-1945
Widerstand, Staatsstreich, Attentat
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
A thorough portrayal of the plans, hesitations, frustrations, and failures of the opposition to Hitler.
- The Holocaust
The Fate of European Jewry, 1932-1945
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
An comprehensive history of Hitler's war on the Jews of Europe.
- The Holocaust Chronicle
A History in Words and Pictures
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
A chronological account of the genocide of European Jews at the hands of the Nazis.
- House of Cards
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1919
Again and again the revolution will bring to the fore the basic question: the general reckoning between labour and capital. And this reckoning is a world historical conflict between two mortal enemies which can be fought out only in a long power struggle, eye to eye, hand to hand.
- Howl Like the Wolves
Growing up in nazi Germany
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1980
- Bernhard von Hülsen
Wikipedia
Resource Type: Article
Bernhard Franz Karl Adolf Gottvertrau von Hülsen (* 20. April 1865 in Cosel; † 21. April 1950 in Potsdam) war ein deutscher Generalleutnant der Reichswehr sowie Führer des Freikorps Hülsen in der Weimarer Republik.
- 100 Jahre Kaufungen in Bildern
Vergangenheit und Gegenwart
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1986
- IBM and the Holocaust
The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2001
Nazi Germany employed IBM Hollerith punch-card machines to perform critical tasks in carrying out the Holocaust and the German war effort, cranking out lists of Jews which were then turned over to the SS for deportation and eventual extermination.
- Inside the Third Reich
Memoirs by Albert Speer
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
- Is this Europe's best secret museum?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
In a small German town, a museum dedicated to life in the GDR – with everything from crank-handled calculators to Communist doilies – exists, virtually undiscovered, in one man's attic.
- Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume I: State and Bureaucracy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1977
A wide-ranging and thorough exposition of Marx's views on democracy.
- Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume II: The Politics of Social Classes
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1978
Draper ranges through the development of the thought of Marx and Engels on the role of classes in society.
- Kiel Naval Mutiny (Wilhelmshaven mutiny)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A major mutiny by sailors of the German High Seas Fleet in October 1918.
- Killing Hope
U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2008
Is the United States a force for democracy? William Blum serves up a forensic overview of U.S. foreign policy spanning sixty years. For those who want the details on the U.S.'s most famous actions (Chile, Cuba, Vietnam, to name a few), and for those who want to learn about lesser-known efforts (France, China, Bolivia, Brazil, for example), this book provides a window on what U.S. foreign policy goals really are. "If you flip over the rock of American foreign policy of the past century, this is what crawls out… invasions … bombings … overthrowing governments … occupations … suppressing movements for social change … assassinating political leaders … perverting elections … manipulating labor unions … manufacturing “news” … death squads … torture … biological warfare … depleted uranium … drug trafficking … mercenaries … It’s not a pretty picture. It’s enough to give imperialism a bad name."
- Kreis Sensburg
Wikipedia
Resource Type: Article
Der Kreis Sensburg war ein preußischer Landkreis in Ostpreußen, der von 1818 bis 1945 bestand.
- Kriegsende in Kassel
Beiträge und Fotos aus der HNA
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1995
In Kassel endete der zweite Weltkrieg am 4. April 1945 mit der Kapitulation der deutschen Truppen. Die Amerikaner besetzen die Stadt und die gesamte Region -- knapp funf Wochen spater endete der Krieg endgultig.
- The Last Jews in Berlin
Powerful true story of the men and women who lived and survived in the dark heart of the Nazi Holocaust
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1983
- The Lesson of Germany
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1945
Hitler's hundreds of thousands of storm troopers represented an enormous expense. They were thugs hired by the German bourgeoisie to fight its battles against the working class. In the years 1930-33 the German bureaucracy engineered election after election hoping to discredit parliamentary government and open the way for authoritarian rule. Despite his immense influence over the petty bourgeoisie, Hitler, by 1932, was on the wane. The German bourgeoisie deliberately maintained Nazism to have some power in reserve against Bolshevism. True, he dominated them afterward. We do not mean for one moment to deny the energy, the inventiveness, the will, the tenacity of Hitler and the other Nazi leaders. We do not deny their skilful use of social contradictions. He himself was obviously a born leader of men and an orator the like of whom Europe has not often seen. But from the time he began, the German bourgeoisie, the military caste, the bureaucracy, all built him up and without their active conscious support he would have been nothing.
- Letter to Bracke
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1875
Karl Marx comments on the unity programme (Gotha programme) of the German Democratic Workers Party and the People's Party.
- Lost Berlin
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1979
- Luxemburg, Müller and the Berlin workers' and soldiers' councils
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Rose reviews and discusses two important books about the German Revolution, "Working-Class Politics in the German Revolution: Richard Müller, the Revolutionary Shop Stewards and the Origins of the Council Movement", and "The German Left and the Weimar Republic: A Selection of Documents".
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 7
Marx and Engels 1848
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1848
Includes articles from the Neue Rheinische Zeitung, June 1 - November 7, 1848.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 8
Marx and Engels 1848 - 1849
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1849
Includes articles from the Neue Rheinische Zeitung November 8, 1848 - March 5, 1849.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 10
Marx and Engels 1849 - 1851
Resource Type: Book
Includes The Peasant War in Germany.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 11
Marx and Engels 1851 - 1853
Resource Type: Book
Includes Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany and The Eighteenth Brumaire
of Louis Bonaparte and Revelations Concerning the Communist Trial in Cologne
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 26
Engels 1882 - 1889
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1889
Includes Manuscripts on Early German History and The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, and Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy, and The Role of Force in History
- A Marxist History of the World part 59: The Franco-Prussian War
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
In this week's chapter of the Marxist History series Neil Faulkner looks at how Germany’s ruling elite brought about a bourgeois revolution ‘from above’.
- A Marxist History of the World part 60: The Paris Commune: the face of proletarian revolution
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The Franco-Prussian war produced the first proletarian revolution in history, and showed to the world for the first time what a workers’ state looks like.
- A Marxist History of the World part 68: 1914: descent into barbarism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
In the summer of 1914 capitalism tipped humanity into an abyss of barbarism that would leave millions dead. Neil Faulkner looks at the First World War.
- A Marxist History of the World part 75: The German Revolution
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
At the end of the First World War, the epicentre of revolution moved from Petrograd to Berlin. Why did the German communists fail where the Bolsheviks had succeded?
- A Marxist History of the World part 83: 1933: The Nazi seizure of power
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
By the early 1930s, the German ruling class was determined to use the Nazis to make the world safe for German capital. But the fascist victory was not inevitable – it resulted from the failure of those who opposed fascism.
- Marxists Internet Archive
Resource Type: Website
Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
- The Mass Psychology of Fascism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
Wilhelm Reich's class study, written during the years of the German crisis. Reich repudiates the concept that fascism is the ideology or action of a single individual or nationality, or any ethnic or political group. He understands fascism as the expression of the irrational character structure of human beings whose needs and impulses have been suppressed.
- Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Wikipedia
Resource Type: Article
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ist ein Land im Nordosten Deutschlands im Zentrum des südlichen Ostseeraumes. Es grenzt im Norden an die Ostsee, im Westen an Schleswig-Holstein und Niedersachsen, im Süden an Brandenburg und im Osten an die Woiwodschaft Westpommern der Republik Polen.
- My Longest Day: How World War II Ended for My Family
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
An essay excerpted from Hans-Armin Ohlmann's memoirs, which recounts his experiences growing up in Germany during the Second World War.
- The National Assembly
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1918
Today it is not a question of democracy or dictatorship. The question that history has placed on the agenda is: bourgeois democracy or socialist democracy?
- Nazi Olympics
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
Describes the Nazification of sports in Germany in the 1930s and its broader context.
- The Nazi Seizure of Power
The Experience of a Single German Town
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1965
A study of how the Nazi takeover took place in one German town.
- Neue Rheinische Zeitung - Digitalisierung
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Die Neue Rheinische Zeitung. Organ der Demokratie erschien in 301 Ausgaben vom 1. Juni 1848 bis zum 19. Mai 1849 täglich in der preußischen Stadt Köln unter der Chefredaktion von Karl Marx und Mitarbeit von Friedrich Engels. Sie umfasst somit den Zeitraum der europäischen Revolution von 1848/49. Weitere Redakteure waren Heinrich Bürgers, Ernst Dronke, Ferdinand Freiligrath, Georg Weerth, Ferdinand Wolff und Wilhelm Wolff.
Die Zeitung erreichte eine Auflage von 5000 bis 6000 Exemplaren und verfügte über eigene Korrespondenten insbesondere in Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, Wien und Paris. Zu den täglichen Ausgaben wurden häufig Beilagen veröffentlicht. Von der vollständig in Rot gedruckten Abschlussnummer vom 19. Mai 1849 wurden fast 20 000 Exemplare gedruckt.
- The Next Step
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1910
A decision must be made as to whether German Social Democracy, which is supported by the strongest trade-union organization and the greatest army of voters in the world, can bring about a mass action (which has been done at various times with great success in little Belgium, in Italy, in Austria-Hungary, in Sweden - not to mention Russia), or whether in Germany a trade-union organization numbering two million members and a powerful, well-disciplined party is just as incapable of giving birth to an effective mass action at the crucial moment as were the French trade unions, which had been crippled by anarchist confusion, and the French Socialist party, which had been weakened by internal disputes.
- The No-Nonsense Guide to Terrorism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
An in-depth look at the nature of terrorism that discusses questioning terrorism, assessing it, the difference between state terrorism and group terrorism, morality and history, and war and politics.
- November 1918: Red Revolution in Strasbourg
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
In the context of the revolution that erupted in Germany as the country suffered defeat in November 1918, a revolutionary situation also arose in Strasbourg, capital of Alsace, a province that still belonged to the Reich at that time.
- The Nuremberg Rallies
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
- Observations in Germany
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1923
- Oh! How -- German is this Revolution!
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1918
The existing penal system, breathing the spirit of brutal class-spirit and capitalist barbarism must be torn up by the roots. A fundamental system of prison-reform must be inaugurated immediately.
- On the Natural History of Destruction
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
Sebald's subject matter is memory and its uncertain connection to the past. In this non-fiction work he turns his attention to the German homefront experience of the Second World War. He questions the postwar push to look to the future and ignore the past. He critiques the silence of German writers who were incapable of writing realistically about their own experiences or worse, who refurbished their own pasts. In his book he attempts to "cast some light on the way in which individual, collective and cultural memory deals with experiences exceeding what is tolerable".
- On the Spartacus Programme
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1918
For us the conquest of power will not be effected at one blow. It will be a progressive act, for we shall progressively occupy all the positions. of the capitalist state, defending tooth and nail each one that we seize.
- Order Prevails in Berlin
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1919
Rosa Luxemburg's last article, written just before she was murdered.
She concludes with the words: "You foolish lackeys! Your 'order' is built on sand. Tomorrow the revolution will 'rise up again, clashing its weapons,' and to your horror it will proclaim with trumpets blazing:
I was, I am, I shall be!"
- Ostpreußen
Wikipedia
Resource Type: Article
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 13, 2014
Libertarian Socialism
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2014
The topic of the week is Libertarian Socialism. Articles on no-state solutions in Kurdistan; right-wing dirty tricks used to attack labour and environmental groups; scientists unravelling the risks of new pesticides; the terrors faced by fishermen in Gaza; and bringing books and seeking peace in Colombia. Film of the week is Even the Rain, and book of the week is Adolph Reed's Class Notes.
- Otto Rühle and the German Labour Movement
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1935
- Our Program and the Political Situation
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1918
Tthe text of a speech by Rosa Luxemburg to the Founding Congress of the Communist Party of Germany (Spartacus League), made on December 31, 1918.
- The Peasant War in Germany
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1850
The Peasant War in Germany was the first history book to assert that the real motivating force behind the Reformation and 16th-century peasant war was socio-economic (class conflict) rather than "merely" religious.
- The Penguin Atlas of Modern History (to 1815)
Resource Type: Book
- The Penguin Atlas of World History - Vol. 1: From the Beginning to the Eve of the French Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
- The Penguin Atlas of World History - Vol. 2: From the French Revolution to the Present
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1978
- A People's History of the German Revolution
1918-19
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2018
The story of the revolutionary moment which overthrew the German monarchy in 1918, but was then defeated by the forces of reaction.
- A People's History of the German Revolution 1918-19 - book review
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2020
William Pelz’s People’s History of the German Revolution is a vivid and accessible introduction to socialism's greatest lost revolution.
- A People's History of the World
From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
- The Police and the 1918-19 German Revolution
A Correction to Our Militant Labour Pamphlet
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
After the SPD took the helm of the government, Emil Eichhorn, a member of the left wing of the USPD, became the Berlin chief of police, acting on the false view that this arm of the bourgeois state could be transformed into a revolutionary instrument. On 4 January 1919, the Prussian Ministry of the Interior dismissed Eichhorn in a deliberate provocation.
- The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
a collection of short commentaries by Noam Chomsky on global issues, drawn from interviews in the early 1990s. Topics include global economics, racism, NAFTA, and hot topics of the day.
- The Red Menace
A libertarian socialist newsletter
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1980
Articles on topics such as socialism, Marxism, anarchism, work, popular education, organizing, wages for housework, Leninism, bureaucracy, hierarchy, jargon, prostitution, obscenity, science fiction, and terrorism.
- Red Rosa
A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2015
A giant of the political left, Rosa Luxemburg is one of the foremost minds in the canon of revolutionary socialist thought. Red Rosa gives Luxemburg her due as a radical and human being. In this beautifully drawn work of graphic biography, writer and artist Kate Evans has opened up her subject’s intellectual world to a new audience, grounding Luxemburg’s ideas in the realities of an inspirational and deeply affecting life.
- Resistance during World War II
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
- Resistance in Europe: 1939 - 45
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1976
Essays on the resistance against Hitler during World War II.
- Responsibility and Judgment
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
- Revelations Concerning the Communist Trial in Cologne
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1852
Marx exposes the unseemly methods used by the Prussian police state against the communist movement.
- Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1896
- Revolutions of 1848 in the German states
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
"Germany" at the time of the Revolutions of 1848 was a collection of 39 states loosely bound together in the German Confederation. As nationalist sentiment crystallized into resistance to the traditional political structure, repeated calls for freedom, democracy and national unity came to threaten the status quo.
- The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
A History of Nazi Germany
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1960
- Rosa Luxemburg
Abridged Edition
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
A biography of Luxemburg by a British academic.
- Rosa Luxemburg
Selected Political Writings
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
A selection of Rosa Luxemburg's writings which highlight her outstanding contributions to the theory and practice of revolutionary socialism.
- The Rosa Luxemburg Reader
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
A definitive one-volume collection of Luxemburg's writings.
- Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation, and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1982
Part I - Rosa Luxemburg as Theoretician, as Activist, as Internationalist. Part II - The Women's Liberation Movement as Revolutionary Force and Reason. Part III - Karl Marx: From Critic of Hegel to Author of Capital and Theorist of "Revolution in Permanence."
- The Scramble for Africa
White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
Describes the brief vicious scramble by Europe's imperial powers to seize colonies throughout the continent of Africa. Pakenham strips the impresarios of imperialism of their veneer of Victorian heroism and reputations for statemanlike vision, to reveal them as men with bloated and often vicious egos.
- The Secret of Hitler's Victory
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1934
In this book, the Petroffs set out to answer the question that has perplexed so many onlookers in other countries: How did it come about that the apparently mighty forces of the German Left fell in one night, and without resistance, before the Nazi attack?
- Seeds of Fire
A People's Chronology
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Recalling events that happened on this day in history. Memories of struggle, resistance and persistence.
- Sex-Pol
Essays 1929-1934
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
Wilhelm Reich's writings from his Marxist period, outlining his thoughts about sexual and political liberation.
- '68: The Year of the Barricades
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
Caute's book looks at the explosive year 1968 (while situating it in the context of what had led up to it). One of the great strengths of this excellent book is that it looks at what was happening around the world.
- Sozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
German socialist students' organization.
- Spartacist uprising
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A general strike (and the armed battles accompanying it) in Germany from January 5 to January 12, 1919.
- Stalin and German Communism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1949
- Die Standhaften
Über den Widerstand in Kassel und Hessen-Waldeck 1933-1945
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1978
Lokalhistorische Studie zum Widerstand gegen den Nationalsozialismus.
- Stones from the River
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
- The Struggle Against Fascism in Germany
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
A collection of Leon Trotsky's writings on the situation in Germany from 1930 to 1940. From 1930 on Trotsky sounded the alarm about the rise of fascism in Germany, and warned that the policies of the Communist Party and the Social Democrats were likely to lead to disaster. He urged a common front, mobilizing the German working class regardless of party affiliation, against the Nazis.
- Der Tod ist ein Meister aus Deutschland
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
- Uprising of 1953 in East Germany
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A widespread uprising against the Stalinist German Democratic Republic government.
- Utopia or Auschwitz: Germany's 1968 Generation and the Holocaust
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2009
In 1968 various student movements had risen up in post-war Europe. The movement in Germany, however, had the long shadow of their parents' roles in Nazism and World War Two.
- Was the German Revolution defeated by January 1919?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
John Rose argued in his talk at Marxism 2014 that the German Revolution had effectively suffered terminal defeat by January 1919. The National Congress of Workers' and Soldiers' Councils voted in December 1918 to hand power to the National Assembly after elections to be held in January 1919.
- What are the Leaders Doing?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1919
It is a revolution with all its externally chaotic development, with its alternating ebb and flow, with momentary surges towards the seizure of power and equally momentary recessions of the revolutionary breakers. And the revolution is making its way step by step through all these apparent zig-zag movements and is marching forward.
- Widerstand und Verweigerung in Deutschland 1933 bis 1945
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1984
- Wie Alles Anfing
How it All Began - The Personal Account of a West German Urban Guerilla
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1977
The original German edition of Wie Alles Anfing was seized by security police when it appeared in 1975. The resulting trial and publicity raised an international outrcy and the book has since been republished in German and translated into six languages.
- Wir sind nackt und nennen uns Du
Von Lichtfreunden und Sonnenkampfern; eine Geschichte der Freikorperkultur
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
Fesselnde Kulturgeschichte der FKK-Bewegung von Kaisers Zeiten bis in die 1970er.
- A Woman in Berlin
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
The anonymous author describes the degradation of Berlin women at the hands of Russian troops at the end of the Second World War.
- Working Class Communism
A Review of the Literature
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
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