Sozialistische Klassiker

Schlagwort: First World War

  • Leon Trotsky: Main facts about the conference.

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    [My ow translation of the Russian text in Nashe Slovo No. 221, 22. October 1915, compared to the German translation. Corrections of English and Russia native speakers would be extremely welcome] An international conference was held over four days in the Swiss village of Zimmerwald, bringing together socialist internationalists from most European countries for the…

  • Peter Taaffe: Red is the colour of our flag

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    (Militant International Review, No. 46, Summer 1991) Peter Taaffe reviews the recently published autobiography of Oskar Hippe, a fighter in the German workers‘ movement for over six years. Oskar Hippe joined the pre-first world war German Social Democratic Party (SPD) under the influence of his radical elder brother. He swung over in support of Rosa…