It's been 100 years since the Marxist revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg was brutally murdered in Germany. On January 15 1919, she was beaten and killed by the anti-revolutionary Freikorps. Her body was ...

The German Revolution, chapter 7 from Mattick's work Reform or Revolution, looks at the events upsurge of working class militancy in Germany during November 1918. Contrary to Bolshevik expectations, ...

The German Revolution of 1918 has long been overshadowed by its more thunderous elder sibling, the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. This is a pity, as Robert Gerwarth contends in his new history, ...

“The rank and file conceive government only as something to be fought. Their own champions become objects of suspicion when they don the robes of state.” The German revolution was long preparing, and, ...

Anton Pannekoek's article on the unfolding German revolution of 1918 shows some of the hopes which the upheaval inspired. Originally written in 1918, it was later published in Workers Dreadnought in ...

This article used research from Kiel Uprising: Women's activism and the German Revolution November 1918, an Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project. It’s been 100 years since the Marxist ...

When my cohort studied the German revolution of 1918-1919 at Trinity in the late 1980s, the prevailing view was that the revolutionaries had been too German and not sufficiently revolutionary. Their ...