A brief introduction to Richard Müller, the leader of the revolutionary shop stewards (Revolutionäre Obleute) among the German metal workers during World War One, and his role in the mass strikes in ...

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 deals with the first and second national German congresses of the workers' and soldiers' councils in Berlin in december 1918 and april 1919. It has commonly been stated that during the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The 1918–19 German Revolution is too often overlooked in the history books that chronicle social breakdowns in the Weimar Republic. Fortunately, “The Anxious Eye: German Expressionism and Its ...