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The Communist Party of Germany (German: Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands, KPD) was a major political party in Germany between 1918 and 1933, and a minor party in West Germany in the postwar period until it was banned in 1956. In the 1920s it was called the "Spartacists", since it was formed from the Spartacus League.
Founded in the aftermath of the First World War by socialists opposed to the war, led by Rosa Luxemburg, after her death the party became gradually ever more committed to Leninism and later Stalinism. During the Weimar Republic period, the KPD usually polled between 10 and 15 per cent of the vote and was represented in the Reichstag and in state parliaments. The party directed most of its attacks on the Social Democratic Party of Germany, which it considered its main opponent. Banned in Nazi Germany one day after Adolf Hitler emerged triumphant in the German elections in 1933, the KPD maintained an underground organization but suffered heavy losses. The party was revived in divided postwar West and East Germany and won seats in the first Bundestag (West German Parliament) elections in 1949, but its support collapsed following the establishment of a communist state in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany.
A communist party is a political party that advocates the application of the social and economic principles of communism through state policy. The name originates from the 1848 tract Manifesto of the Communist Party by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. According to Leninist theory, a Communist party is the vanguard party of the working class (Proletariat), whether ruling or non-ruling, but when such a party is in power in a specific country, the party is said to be the highest authority of the dictatorship of the proletariat. Vladimir Lenin's theories on the role of a Communist party were developed as the early 20th-century Russian social democracy divided into Bolshevik (meaning "of the majority") and Menshevik (meaning "of the minority") factions. Lenin, leader of the Bolsheviks, argued that a revolutionary party should be a small vanguard party with a centralized political command and a strict cadre policy; the Menshevik faction, however, argued that the party should be a broad-based mass movement. The Bolshevik party, which eventually became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, took power in Russia after the October Revolution in 1917. With the creation of the Communist International, the Leninist concept of party building was copied by emerging Communist parties worldwide.
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Germany (/ˈdʒɜːrməni/; German: Deutschland [ˈdɔʏtʃlant]), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland, listen ), is a federal parliamentary republic in West-Central Europe. It includes 16 constituent states and covers an area of 357,021 square kilometres (137,847 sq mi) with a largely temperate seasonal climate. Its capital and largest city is Berlin. With about 81.5 million inhabitants, Germany is the most populous member state in the European Union. After the United States, it is the second most popular migration destination in the world.
Various Germanic tribes have occupied northern Germany since classical antiquity. A region named Germania was documented before 100 AD. During the Migration Period the Germanic tribes expanded southward. Beginning in the 10th century, German territories formed a central part of the Holy Roman Empire. During the 16th century, northern German regions became the centre of the Protestant Reformation.
A party is a gathering of people who have been invited by a host for the purposes of socializing, conversation, recreation, or as part of a festival or other commemoration of a special occasion. A party will typically feature food and beverages, and often music and dancing or other forms of entertainment. In many Western countries, parties for teens and adults are associated with drinking alcohol such as beer, wine or distilled spirits.
Some parties are held in honor of a specific person, day, or event, such as a birthday party, a Super Bowl party, or a St. Patrick’s Day party. Parties of this kind are often called celebrations. A party is not necessarily a private occasion. Public parties are sometimes held in restaurants, pubs, beer gardens, nightclubs or bars, and people attending such parties may be charged an admission fee by the host. Large parties in public streets may celebrate events such as Mardi Gras or the signing of a peace treaty ending a long war.
Workers' Party is a name used by a number of political parties throughout the world. While the name has been used by both left-wing and right-wing organizations, it is currently used by left-wing followers of Communism, Maoism, Marxism, Marxism-Leninism, Social Democracy, Socialism and Trotskyism.
Defunct Workers' parties include:
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Die Linke, "The Left", grew up out of the remnants of the East German system and is still the second-most popular party in the former communist states. Harriet Torry explains why despite this popularity, the future could be bleak for the party. Click here to subscribe to our channel: http://bit.ly/14Q81Xy Visit us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/wsjlive Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/WSJLive Visit the Wall Street Journal: www.wsj.com
German/Nat Thousands of supporters of the German Communist Party PDS gathered in Berlin to celebrate a victory over the tax man and the government. It comes after a court ruled that the PDS didn't have to pay the first installment of a crippling tax bill. The party's leadership claim the assessment was part of a government conspiracy to push the communists out of politics. About four thousand people joined in the celebratory rally in Berlin's Rosa Luxembourg Platz - named after the famous German communist who led an unsuccessful revolt against parliament in 1919. They'd come to support the 25 members of the PDS party, including its leader Gregor Gysi, who'd gone on a week's hunger strike to protest against a 67.4 (m) million mark (44.5 (m) million dollars) tax bill. T...
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Ten activists with Turkish and Kurdish backgrounds went on trial in Munich, on Friday, accused of being members of the left-wing group Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist-Leninist (TKP/ML). According to the state prosecutors, the TKP/ML has carried out numerous bomb attacks back in Turkey. Video ID: 20160617-076 Video on Demand: http://www.ruptly.tv Contact: cd@ruptly.tv Twitter: http://twitter.com/Ruptly Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Ruptly
Der heimliche Aufmarsch (English: "The Secret Deployment") is a poem by Erich Weinert with music by Hanns Eisler, written in 1929. The most famous version is the 1938 remake with new music by Eisler, heard at Communist Party rallies. German lyrics: Es geht durch die Welt ein Geflüster - Arbeiter, hörst du es nicht? Das sind die Stimmen der Kriegsminister! Arbeiter, hörst du sie nicht? Es flüstern die Kohle- und Stahlproduzenten. Es flüstert die chemische Kriegsproduktion. Es flüstert von allen Kontinenten: "Mobilmachung gegen die Sowjetunion!" Arbeiter, Bauern, nehmt die Gewehre, nehmt die Gewehre zur Hand! Zerschlagt die faschistischen Räuberheere, setzt alle Herzen in Brand. Pflanzt eure roten Banner der Arbeit Auf jede Rampe, auf jede Fabrik! Dann steigt aus den Trümmern der alten Ges...
Link to order this clip: http://www.criticalpast.com/video/65675025840_funeral-parade_Europe_band-plays-music_horse-chariot_buildings-in-the-background Historic Stock Footage Archival and Vintage Video Clips in HD. Funeral parade for revolutionaries of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) killed during the German Revolution of 1918-1919 Funeral parade in Germany in 1919, possibly sometime after the Spartacist Uprising in Berlin. Large crowd of people gather on both sides of a funeral parade route, with an industrial area and factory in the background. Band players at the parade. Two horse carts seen carrying eight coffins. Mourners in the parade process and some carry wreaths. Group preceding the caskets carries KPD flags with the Communist Party of Germany logo beneath the letters (hamm...
The Communist Party of Germany was a major political party in Germany between 1918 and 1933, and a minor party in West Germany in the postwar period until it was banned in 1956. In the 1920s it was called the "Spartacists", since it was formed from the Spartacus League. Founded in the aftermath of the First World War by socialists opposed to the war, led by Rosa Luxemburg, after her death the party became gradually ever more committed to Leninism and later Stalinism. During the Weimar Republic period, the KPD usually polled between 10 and 15 per cent of the vote and was represented in the Reichstag and in state parliaments. The party directed most of its attacks on the Social Democratic Party of Germany, which it considered its main opponent. Banned in Nazi Germany one day after Adolf Hitl...
In 1915, Jewish Reds Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht founded the "Spartacus League" (named after Illuminati founder Adam Weishaupt's code name of "Spartacus"). In 1919, the group becomes the Communist Party of Germany. That same month, the Spartacists, aided by Jewish-Hungarian Red Bela Kun, take advantage of the post-war chaos, and stage coup in Berlin. Kaiser Wilhelm, fearing the same fate as Czar Nicholas, flees to Holland. He now regrets his past liberalism and denounces the “Jewish influence" that ruined Germany. The Communist takeover of Berlin is short lived as veterans known as the ‘Freikorps’ reclaim control from the Jewish Reds and their followers. Luxemburg and Liebknecht are captured and executed. The "Freikorps" has saved Germany from the same deadly fate that has befallen...
Germany recently celebrated 25 years of reunification with a beautiful art installation retracing the path of the Berlin Wall and educational exhibits of its Cold War history. For many Germans, it was a rare moment of reflection on the horrors perpetrated by the German Democratic Republic (a.k.a. GDR, East Germany, DDR). The phenomenon known as Ostalgie, or nostalgia for the East, along with favorable views of socialism, have led to a curious whitewashing of the GDR's legacy. Particularly among young Germans, the GDR is seen as a quirk of history, a strange but charming place with campy state-manufactured products and a culture of nude beaches and enthusiastic collectivism, rather than a monstrous police state which imprisoned, murdered, tortured, and spied on its own people. Reason TV v...
Conference of Communist & Worker's Parties 2017 in Brussels organized by KKE. Full list of participants: Communist Party of Albania Party of Labour of Austria Party of the Bulgarian Communists Union of Communists in Bulgaria Communist Party of Bulgaria New Communist Party of Britain The Pole of Communist Revival in France (PRCF) Union of Revolutionary Communists of France Revolutionary Communist Party of France German Communist Party Unified Communist Party of Georgia Communist Party of Denmark Communist Party in Denmark Communist Party (Denmark) Party of Labour of Switzerland Communist Party of Greece Workers' Party of Ireland Communist Party of Peoples of Spain Communist Party, Italy AKEL (Cyprus) Socialist Party of Latvia Communist Party of Belarusia Communist Party of the Workers of ...
Die Linke, "The Left", grew up out of the remnants of the East German system and is still the second-most popular party in the former communist states. Harriet Torry explains why despite this popularity, the future could be bleak for the party. Click here to subscribe to our channel: http://bit.ly/14Q81Xy Visit us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/wsjlive Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/WSJLive Visit the Wall Street Journal: www.wsj.com
German/Nat Thousands of supporters of the German Communist Party PDS gathered in Berlin to celebrate a victory over the tax man and the government. It comes after a court ruled that the PDS didn't have to pay the first installment of a crippling tax bill. The party's leadership claim the assessment was part of a government conspiracy to push the communists out of politics. About four thousand people joined in the celebratory rally in Berlin's Rosa Luxembourg Platz - named after the famous German communist who led an unsuccessful revolt against parliament in 1919. They'd come to support the 25 members of the PDS party, including its leader Gregor Gysi, who'd gone on a week's hunger strike to protest against a 67.4 (m) million mark (44.5 (m) million dollars) tax bill. T...
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Ten activists with Turkish and Kurdish backgrounds went on trial in Munich, on Friday, accused of being members of the left-wing group Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist-Leninist (TKP/ML). According to the state prosecutors, the TKP/ML has carried out numerous bomb attacks back in Turkey. Video ID: 20160617-076 Video on Demand: http://www.ruptly.tv Contact: cd@ruptly.tv Twitter: http://twitter.com/Ruptly Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Ruptly
Der heimliche Aufmarsch (English: "The Secret Deployment") is a poem by Erich Weinert with music by Hanns Eisler, written in 1929. The most famous version is the 1938 remake with new music by Eisler, heard at Communist Party rallies. German lyrics: Es geht durch die Welt ein Geflüster - Arbeiter, hörst du es nicht? Das sind die Stimmen der Kriegsminister! Arbeiter, hörst du sie nicht? Es flüstern die Kohle- und Stahlproduzenten. Es flüstert die chemische Kriegsproduktion. Es flüstert von allen Kontinenten: "Mobilmachung gegen die Sowjetunion!" Arbeiter, Bauern, nehmt die Gewehre, nehmt die Gewehre zur Hand! Zerschlagt die faschistischen Räuberheere, setzt alle Herzen in Brand. Pflanzt eure roten Banner der Arbeit Auf jede Rampe, auf jede Fabrik! Dann steigt aus den Trümmern der alten Ges...
Link to order this clip: http://www.criticalpast.com/video/65675025840_funeral-parade_Europe_band-plays-music_horse-chariot_buildings-in-the-background Historic Stock Footage Archival and Vintage Video Clips in HD. Funeral parade for revolutionaries of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) killed during the German Revolution of 1918-1919 Funeral parade in Germany in 1919, possibly sometime after the Spartacist Uprising in Berlin. Large crowd of people gather on both sides of a funeral parade route, with an industrial area and factory in the background. Band players at the parade. Two horse carts seen carrying eight coffins. Mourners in the parade process and some carry wreaths. Group preceding the caskets carries KPD flags with the Communist Party of Germany logo beneath the letters (hamm...
The Communist Party of Germany was a major political party in Germany between 1918 and 1933, and a minor party in West Germany in the postwar period until it was banned in 1956. In the 1920s it was called the "Spartacists", since it was formed from the Spartacus League. Founded in the aftermath of the First World War by socialists opposed to the war, led by Rosa Luxemburg, after her death the party became gradually ever more committed to Leninism and later Stalinism. During the Weimar Republic period, the KPD usually polled between 10 and 15 per cent of the vote and was represented in the Reichstag and in state parliaments. The party directed most of its attacks on the Social Democratic Party of Germany, which it considered its main opponent. Banned in Nazi Germany one day after Adolf Hitl...
In 1915, Jewish Reds Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht founded the "Spartacus League" (named after Illuminati founder Adam Weishaupt's code name of "Spartacus"). In 1919, the group becomes the Communist Party of Germany. That same month, the Spartacists, aided by Jewish-Hungarian Red Bela Kun, take advantage of the post-war chaos, and stage coup in Berlin. Kaiser Wilhelm, fearing the same fate as Czar Nicholas, flees to Holland. He now regrets his past liberalism and denounces the “Jewish influence" that ruined Germany. The Communist takeover of Berlin is short lived as veterans known as the ‘Freikorps’ reclaim control from the Jewish Reds and their followers. Luxemburg and Liebknecht are captured and executed. The "Freikorps" has saved Germany from the same deadly fate that has befallen...
Germany recently celebrated 25 years of reunification with a beautiful art installation retracing the path of the Berlin Wall and educational exhibits of its Cold War history. For many Germans, it was a rare moment of reflection on the horrors perpetrated by the German Democratic Republic (a.k.a. GDR, East Germany, DDR). The phenomenon known as Ostalgie, or nostalgia for the East, along with favorable views of socialism, have led to a curious whitewashing of the GDR's legacy. Particularly among young Germans, the GDR is seen as a quirk of history, a strange but charming place with campy state-manufactured products and a culture of nude beaches and enthusiastic collectivism, rather than a monstrous police state which imprisoned, murdered, tortured, and spied on its own people. Reason TV v...
Conference of Communist & Worker's Parties 2017 in Brussels organized by KKE. Full list of participants: Communist Party of Albania Party of Labour of Austria Party of the Bulgarian Communists Union of Communists in Bulgaria Communist Party of Bulgaria New Communist Party of Britain The Pole of Communist Revival in France (PRCF) Union of Revolutionary Communists of France Revolutionary Communist Party of France German Communist Party Unified Communist Party of Georgia Communist Party of Denmark Communist Party in Denmark Communist Party (Denmark) Party of Labour of Switzerland Communist Party of Greece Workers' Party of Ireland Communist Party of Peoples of Spain Communist Party, Italy AKEL (Cyprus) Socialist Party of Latvia Communist Party of Belarusia Communist Party of the Workers of ...
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Erich Honecker (German: [ˈeːʁɪç ˈhɔnɛkɐ]; 25 August 1912 – 29 May 1994) was a German politician who, as the General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party, led East Germany from 1971 until the weeks preceding the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. From 1976 onward he was also the country's official Head of State as Chairman of the State Council following Willi Stoph's relinquishment of the post. Honecker's political career began in the 1930s when he became an official of the Communist Party of Germany, a position for which he was imprisoned during the Nazi era. Following World War II, he was freed and soon relaunched his political activity, founding the youth organisation the Free German Youth in 1946 and serving as the group's chairman until 1955. As the Security Secretary of the Party’s Ce...
Benton L. Bradberry served in the U.S. Navy from 1955 to 1977 during the Cold War. He is a graduate of the Naval Post Graduate School in Monterey, California with a degree in Political Science and International Relations. Bradberry’s generation was inundated with anti-German propaganda and “Holocaust” lore and he spent years researching “the other side of the story,” which is compiled in his book, “The Myth of German Villainy.” Mr. Bradberry begins by describing some of the typical anti-German propaganda he encountered along the way in Europe during his Navy years and in recent travels – a vile and evil picture so different from the true character of the highly civilized and cultivated German people he discovered. Benton explains how WWI and WWII were thrust upon Germany, who was surpass...
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In 1915, Jewish Reds Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht founded the "Spartacus League" (named after Illuminati founder Adam Weishaupt's code name of "Spartacus"). In 1919, the group becomes the Communist Party of Germany. That same month, the Spartacists, aided by Jewish-Hungarian Red Bela Kun, take advantage of the post-war chaos, and stage coup in Berlin. Kaiser Wilhelm, fearing the same fate as Czar Nicholas, flees to Holland. He now regrets his past liberalism and denounces the “Jewish influence" that ruined Germany. The Communist takeover of Berlin is short lived as veterans known as the ‘Freikorps’ reclaim control from the Jewish Reds and their followers. Luxemburg and Liebknecht are captured and executed. The "Freikorps" has saved Germany from the same deadly fate that has befallen...
A unique perspective on the rise of Nazi Germany and how millions of people were so vulnerable to fascism, told through rare and never-before-seen amateur films shot by the Germans who were there. _________________________________________________________________ "It was founded as the German Workers’ Party by Anton Drexler, a Munich locksmith, in 1919. Hitler attended one of its meetings that year, and his energy and oratorical skills soon enabled him to take over the party. He ousted the party’s former leaders in 1920–21 and renamed it the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. In 1920 Hitler also formulated a 25-point program that became the permanent basis for the party. The program called for German abandonment of the Treaty of Versailles and for the expansion of German territory....
- Adolph Hitler was born in April 1889 in a very humble family in an Austrian village. On account of poverty he could not get proper education. His father wanted to make his son a government employee. But Hitler was very fond of art from his early days. So he went to Vienna at the age of 18 to learn the art of painting and architecture. While he was in Vienna, he happened to witness the behavior of the Jews. He felt that the Jews were the moral enemies of individualism, nationalism and racialism. Further he felt that the Jews were the supporters of the Marxian ideology. Thus his anti- Jews ideas developed at very early age. Hitler was opposed to democracy and believed in the supremacy of the German race - During the First World War Hitler joined the army and participated in the war. In rec...
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