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Der Volksfreund, Pirna (Otto Rühle tendency)
Vorbote, ‘internationale marxistische Rundschau’, Zürich/Bern, 1916, published by Pannekoek and Henriëtte
Roland Holst. From the point of view of the left.
1918-1933
We mention here the papers coming either from the KAPD and its splits, or from the Union movement, in the
broad sense; also, as a comparison, the papers of the trotskyist movement and of Hugo Urbahns, the ‘Rote
Kämpfer’ within the social democracy, then outside it. Though not closely related to the KAPD and Union
movement, they were to the left of the KPD.
The KAPD and the political currents that emerged from it.
Arbeiterbrief, illegal paper published by the KAU/KAP, 1933.
Brand, ‚Organ für die Betriebsorganisation der KAI’, Berlin, 1926-27. Split from the Essen KAI; Emil Sach
tendency, who was expelled from the official KAI in 1926.
Brief an Arbeiter, illegal paper published by the KAU/KAP, 1933.
Die Epoche, ‚Kampforgan des Kommunistischen Rätebundes’, 1923-24, Leipzig. Saxon split of the KAPD.
Hostile to the two KAPs and to the AAU-E of Otto Rühle and Franz Pfemfert.
Geist, ‚Halbmonatsschrift der zielbewussten Sozialisten’, published by the ‘Sozialistischer Bund’. Independent,
close to the National Bolsheviks from Hamburg and the KAPD. Led by one of the leaders of the KAP: Fritz
Wendel, 1920, with the participation of Goldstein and Schröder.
Der Junge Kommunist, KAPD youth organ, Berlin 1922.
Kampfsignal, illegal paper published by the KAU/KAP, 1934-35?.
Der Kommunist, Dresden, organ of the IKD (Nov. 1918), then organ of the KPD (S) till Nov. 1919; since April
1920 organ of the KAPD (Ost-Sachsen); after Dec. 1920 ‚Organ der kommunistischen Arbeiterschaft
Ostsachsens und der AAU’. Organ of the Rühle’s tendency. [Led by the carpenter Heinrich Heynemann
(1885 ?). He was interned in 1933, and joined in 1946 the SED which he left in 1950, while maintaining political
contact with Weiland.] Replaced in Jan. 1921 by Die Revolution.
Kommunistische Arbeiter-Zeitung, organ of the KPD (Spartakusbund), then organ of the KAPD and AAUD.
Hamburg 1919-1920. National-bolshevik tendency of Laufenberg and Wolffheim.
Kommunistische Arbeiter-Zeitung, KAPD organ in Western Saxony (West-Sachsen), Halle, 1920.
Kommunistische Arbeiter-Zeitung, ‚Organ der KAPD, angeschlossen der KAI’, Essen, March 1922-29.
Tendency of Schröder and Gorter, KAPD (Berlin) split.
Kommunistische Arbeiter-Zeitung, published in 1919 as illegal organ of the KPD in Berlin; became the official
organ of the KAPD, Berlin 1920-1933. Almost daily in 1920-21, then bi-weekly, later weekly, then monthly in
1931 onwards.
Kommunistische Montags-Zeitung, Organ der KAPD, Berlin, 1920-21. Paper coming out on Mondays.
Kommunistischer Arbeiter, ‘Organ der KAPD-Opposition’, Berlin, November 1927-April 1928. KAP split in
Berlin. Returned to the party.
Die Kommunistische Sturmglocke, ‚Organ der KAP und der Betriebsorganisationen für Sachsen-Anhalt’,
Magdeburg, 1920. Karl Plättner was one of its editors.
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