How a workers’ uprising ended the first world war
Volkhard Mosler in Socialist Worker UK looks at how revolt spread from the front to the factories in 1918 It is widely claimed that the 1918 November Revolution in Germany failed. But it succeeded in...
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Every year it is seemingly compulsory for every politician and even anyone who appears on television to wear a poppy. It is presented as a mark of respect for those who have died in war, wrote Simon...
View ArticleCapitalism’s first world war and the struggle against it
John Riddell is the author and editor of numerous books, including, most recently, Toward the United Front: Proceedings of the Fourth Congress of the Communist International, 1922. Here, in an article...
View ArticleGerman workers ended the first world war
Alongside the tragic and glorious place names of the 1914-18 war – Ypres, Gallipoli and the Somme – we should also remember Kiel and Wilhelmshaven, for it was here German workers finally did what they...
View ArticleA workers’ uprising in Germany ended World War One
Volkhard Mosler in Socialist Worker UK looks at how revolt in Germany spread from the front to the factories in 1918 and ended World War One It is widely claimed that the 1918 November Revolution in...
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