Struggling Against the Suppression of Ideas

Germany

Suppression of News and Revolutionary or Progressive Political Documents Prevented from Reaching the People

In Germany, as in so many other countries, much of the real news about what is happening to the working class and the poor, and within the revolutionary movement, is either suppressed, or at the very least is not widely reported. And for reasons like this the claims that Germany enjoys a true "democracy" and "a free press" are gross exaggerations of the real situation. We at BANNEDTHOUGHT.NET will try to help break down this government and media news and information embargo.

Some of the documents here have the file extension ".djvu". These files require the WinDjView program to read them. This reader can be obtained for free at: http://www.windjview.sourceforge.net — Some PDF reading programs under Windows, such as the free SumatraPDF, can also read .djvu files. Linux users have the capability to read .djvu files integrated into their PDF readers of the major desktops: Okular in KDE, Evince in GNOME.

If you know of other suppressed or hard to find documents and news reports that should be posted here, please contact us at: freespeech@bannedthought.net

Suppression of News or Opinion in Germany

Kommunistische Arbeiterbund Deutschlands [KABD] — Communist Workers' League of Germany (1972–1982)

Was formed by the August 1972 merger of two organizations which sprang from the 1968 student movement. Membership never exceeded 900 and on average seems to have been around 600. In 1982 it was reorganized into the Marxistisch-Leninistische Partei Deutschlands (MLPD) which has evolved away from Maoism.

Communist Party of Germany (KPD)

General

Rosa Luxemburg

Karl Liebknecht

During the Weimar Era

During the Nazi Era

Die Rote Fahne ["The Red Flag"]

Newspaper of the Spartacus League and then the KPD. Unfortunately these are poor image scans, and often done from old and damaged issues.

Nazi Regime and Its Crimes (1933–1945)

World War II Era — and Resistance

German Social-Democracy in the Late 19th Century and Early 20th Century

General

The SDP and World War I

Otto Bauer

August Bebel

Karl Kautsky

Note: Kautsky was, of course, a traitor to revolutionary Marxism. For appropriately strong criticism of his views see the works by Lenin in the Lenin section of the USSR page. See especially Lenin's pamphlets State and Revolution and The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky.

Wilhelm Liebknecht

Die Neue Zeit: Wochenschrift der Deutschen Sozialdemokratie ["The New Age: Weekly Journal of Social Democracy"] (1883–1923)

Vorwärts ["Forward"]

Began in 1876. Suppressed by the Nazis in 1933, but re-established after World War II. [More info]

Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands [SED] — Socialist Unity Party of Germany

The totally revisionist (and social-fascist) party governing the German Democratic Republic [East Germany] while it existed.

1969

1970

1971

Academic and Historical Works on the Revolutionary Movement in Germany

General and Overall

The November Revolution (of 1918) and the Overthrow of the Emperor

The Spartacist Revolt: The Attempted Socialist Revolution following World War I

On the KPD up until World War II

On the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and the SED

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