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  Spartacist League - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Spartacist League (Spartakusbund in German) was a left-wing Marxist revolutionary movement organized in Germany during and just after the politically volatile years of World War I, founded by Rosa Luxemburg (nicknamed "Red Rosa") and Karl Liebknecht along with others such as Clara Zetkin.
The League was named after Spartacus, leader of the largest slave rebellion in the history of the Roman Republic.
In December of 1918, the League joined the Comintern and renamed itself the Communist Party of Germany (usually abbreviated "KPD", for Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands); on January 1, 1919, the Spartacist League/KPD executed a short-lived Communist revolution in Berlin (against the orders of its leadership), which was easily crushed by nationalist elements.
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 International Communist League (Fourth Internationalist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Initially the Spartacists sought to intervene in the Civil Rights protests, on the basis of their support for the idea of revolutionary integrationism, but as small as they were this activity foundered.
The IBT also claims that the Spartacists have degenerated into an "obedience cult" centered around Robertson, but anti-cult organizations such as the American Family Foundation have never taken a that the Spartacists are a political cult.
Another split occurred in 1996 when the founders of the League for the Fourth International were expelled, allegedly for maneuvering with a group from Brazil involved in bringing court suit against a trade union.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/International_Communist_League_(Fourth_Internationalist)   (1871 words)

  
 Karl Liebknecht - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Karl Liebknecht (August 13, 1871 - January 15, 1919) was a German socialist and a co-founder of the Spartacist League and the Communist Party of Germany.
Liebknecht was arrested and sent to the eastern front during World War I for the group's echoing of Russian Bolsheviks' arguments for a Proletarian Revolution; refusing to fight, he served burying the dead, and due to his rapidly deteriorating health was allowed to return to Germany in October 1915.
Following the outbreak of the German Revolution, Liebknecht carried on his activities in the Spartacist League; he resumed leadership of the group together with Rosa Luxemburg and published its party organ, the Rote Fahne ("red flag").
www.marylandheights.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Karl_Liebknecht   (706 words)

  
 Karl Liebknecht Information - TextSheet.com
Karl Liebknecht (August 13, 1871 - January 15, 1919) was a German socialist and a co-founder of the Spartacist League.
Born in Leipzig, he was the son of Wilhelm Liebknecht, one of the founders of the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
On November 9, Liebknecht declared the forming of the "freie sozialistische Republik" (free socialist republic) from a balcony of the Berlin castle, two hours after Philipp Scheidemann's declaration of the "German republic" from a balcony of the Reichstag; on December 30 1918 / January 1 1919, he was involved in the founding of the KPD.
www.medbuster.com /encyclopedia/k/ka/karl_liebknecht.html   (304 words)

  
 Spartacist League   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Spartacist League or Spartakusbund was an extreme left-wing movement in Germany during and just after World War I. It was named after Spartacus, leader of the largest slave rebellion in the classical period.
International Communist League Publishers of Workers' Vanguard and The Spartacist, the ICL is organised as the Spartacist League in several countries and the Trotskyist League/Lige Trotskyiste in Canada and France.
Internationalist Group (U.S.) The IG is led by Jan Norden, ex-editor of Workers' Vanguard, who was expelled from Spartacist League/International Communist League and formed the League for the Fourth International in which the IG is the US section.
www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Spartacist_League.html   (813 words)

  
 Spartacist League - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
This article is about the Spartacist League which existed in post-First World War Germany.
The Spartacist League (Spartakusbund in German) was a left-wing Marxist revolutionary movement organized in Germany during and just after the politically volatile years of World War I, founded by Rosa Luxemburg (nicknamed "Red Rosa") and Karl Liebknecht.
The remains of the Spartacist League continued as the Communist Party of Germany (KPD).
www.open-encyclopedia.com /Spartacist_League   (663 words)

  
 Spartacist League - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the Spartacist League which existed in post-World War I Germany.
The Spartacist League (Spartakusbund in German) was a left-wing Marxist revolutionary movement organized in Germany during and just after the politically volatile years of World War I.
The remains of the Spartacist League continued as the KPD, which retained the League's newspaper, die Rote Fahne (Red Flag), as its publication.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spartacist_uprising   (686 words)

  
 A Summary Description of the Papers of the Spartacist League
Spartacist League: originally formed as the "Revolutionary Tendency" of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP), the Spartacist League was formed in 1964 when they were expelled from the SWP for not supporting the Cuban revolution, as well as opposing the SWP's part in the "revisionist" United Secretariat of the Fourth International (USFI).
The Spartacist League suffered two large splits: the first being the formation of the International Bolshevik Tendency in 1985 and in 1996 a group formed by the expelled SL newspaper editor, Jan Norden (known as the Internationalist Group).
March 1978 to the present: At the beginning of this period the Spartacist League/Britain (SL/B) was founded in a fusion between the LSG and the Trotskyist Faction (TF) of the Workers Socialist League.
www.warwick.ac.uk /services/library/mrc/ead/275col.htm   (586 words)

  
 P4 I. The Spartacist League and the trade unions
Spartacist's first political priority in attacking the International Committee's analysis of globalization is to uphold the perspective of trade unionism and, in particular, the authority of the AFL-CIO in the US.
Hence, according to the Spartacist League, there is no reason why the bitter experiences of workers with the AFL-CIO should become the starting point for drawing fundamental conclusions about the class nature and political role of the official unions, or the viability of national-based forms of organization and nationalist programs in general.
According to Spartacist, the vehicle for carrying out such a perspective is not a socialist political party of the working class, but rather the trade unions, somehow transformed from organizations that have historically embraced nationalism and class collaboration into their internationalist and revolutionary opposite.
www.wsws.org /exhibits/slreply/part4-1.shtml   (7164 words)

  
 spartacist league   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Spartacist League or Spartakusbund was an extreme left-wing movement in Germany during and just after World War I.
The League was named after Spartacus, leader of the largest slave rebellion in the Roman Empire.
Besides opposition to imperialist war, they maintained the need for revolutionary methods, in contrast to the leadership of the Social Democracy.
www.yourencyclopedia.net /spartacist_league.html   (437 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Spartacist League   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In December of 1918, the League joined the Comintern and renamed itself the Communist Party of Germany (usually abbreviated "KPD", for Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands); on January 1, 1919, the Spartacist League/KPD executed a short-lived Communist revolution in Berlin (against the protests of Luxemburg and Liebknecht), which was easily crushed by nationalist elements.
The Communist Party of Germany (in German, Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands – KPD) was formed in December of 1918 from the Spartacist League, which originated as a small factional grouping within the Social Democratic Party (SPD), and the International Communists of Germany (IKD).
This occurred against the advice of Luxemburg, who argued that an uprising was premature since the Spartakusbund was too weak and not enough of the working class had come over to its side.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Spartacist-League   (2106 words)

  
 American Red Groups
Revolutionary Workers League: Formed in 1976 as a split from the Spartacist League, the RWL is a dogmatic and intensely militant Trotskyist group based in Detroit.
Spartacist League: Originally formed as the "Revolutionary Tendency" of the Socialist Workers Party, the Spartacist League was formed in 1964 when they were expelled from the SWP for not supporting the Cuban revolution, as well as opposing the SWP's part in the "revisionist" United Secretariat of the Fourth International (USFI).
One of the Spartacist organizers in Russia, Martha Phillips, was murdered during this period — possibly by the Stalinist groups she was working with.
reds.linefeed.org /groups.html   (6783 words)

  
 Communism Research Wiki: Spartacist League   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Spartacist League was founded in 1964 after being expelled from the Socialist Workers Party.
In 1968, Geoff White would resign from the Spartacist League over their attitude towards the Peace and Freedom Party, a radical third-party intended as an alternative to the Democrats and Republicans.
White saw opportunities for the Spartacist League to recruit from and influence the Peace and Freedom Party by working within it; Robertson and the majority of the membership saw this as an unprincipled popular front.
www.yardley.ca /cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Spartacist_League   (384 words)

  
 BULLETIN OF THE EXTERNAL TENDENCY OF THE iSt No. 4
The Spartacist League today, crippled by years of suppression of any and all dissident opinion, has lost the capacity to correct the errors of the leadership as it begins to attack the programmatic foundations of the movement.
As the Spartacist League decomposes into Yuri Andropov Brigades, Susanna Martin Choirs, Fritz Mondale Defense Squads and Red Avengers in its plunge toward political irrelevance, it is left to the External Tendency to struggle to ensure that the heritage which the SL carried forward from Cannon's SWP is not lost.
We are former supporters of the Spartacist League who in the past were involved in a leading way, in one capacity or another, in trade-union work on the basis of the Trotskyist program as then espoused by the SL.
www.bolshevik.org /ETB/ETB4/ETB4.htm   (18991 words)

  
 SALON | Media Circus
The Spartacists, who may best be termed "fundamentalist Trotskyists," have a flair for logic-chopping, and for mercilessly ridiculing their opponents, who are many.
In the friendliest possible way, the Spartacists encouraged the Brazilians to purge the cops from their union — until just about the time Norden and his dinner companions were expelled.
Suddenly, the League decided that active support for their Brazilian associates "presents unacceptable risks to the vanguard." (Perhaps the Brazilian cops proved more frightening to deal with in person than they had on paper.) The Spartacist League vowed never to let its shadow fall on Volta Redonda again.
www.salon.com /feb97/media/media970206.html   (1239 words)

  
 commiewatch
In today's humor section, the Spartacist League and their decades-old split-off, the International Bolshevik Tendency, are locked in yet another round of their eternal battle with irrelevance.
Comrade Robertson is a member of the Editorial Board and Spartacist League National Chairman, and was personally the target of the BT slander.
The Spartacist League is, and has been from its inception, an organization that says what is, without bowing to petty-bourgeois sensibilities.
yardley.blogspot.com /2003_08_01_yardley_archive.html   (4297 words)

  
 An Exchange witht the Spartacist League   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Spartacist's false and anti-Marxist theory of interpentrated peoples in Palestine leads to a defense of the settler/colonial population against the masses in the struggle they have chosen, the first and second intifadeh.
Those who argue that the American nation was formed on the basis of colonialism and ethnic cleansing are anachronistically assuming that the process of national formation of the 17th and 18th centuries continues to be valid in the epoch of imperialist decay.
In plain words: the Spartacists are in actual fact demanding the perpetuation of the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians and the legal prohibition of intermarriage.
www.workersaction.org /Spartacist.html   (3221 words)

  
 Spartacist League Trotskyists on China: a Maoist Review
The Spartacist upholds the typical Trotskyist line that China is a deformed workers state: something that is not capitalism but is also not socialism.
In fact, this article in the Spartacist does a good job of describing many of the conditions in China that distinguish it as a state capitalist country, and many of the changes that were implemented under Deng Xiaoping to change the production relations from socialist to state capitalist.
The Spartacist article details some of the evidence that the people in China have no control over the means of production and that in fact a few people are benefiting from the state control.
www.etext.org /Politics/MIM/wim/wyl/trots/spartschina.html   (3887 words)

  
 Overthrow.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The differences between the SWP and the Spartacist League over revolution in the Third World continue to be apparent, but they are sometimes more subtle and always less consequential than the clash between the French Ligue and the Lambertists over Nicaragua.
Nonetheless, the Spartacist League argues that the Nicaraguan revolution must be defended and completed, (the latter involving the elimination of the above petit-bourgeois elements of the program) and that this defense is key to defending both the USSR and Cuba against U.S. imperialism.
The Spartacist League, on the other hand, saw nothing but a reactionary, nationalistic, and religiously fundamentalist regime which was not being challenged by any progressive party.
www.overthrow.com /lsn/news.asp?articleID=407   (6601 words)

  
 Young Reds
Spartacus Youth Club: Founded in 1969 by the Spartacist League as the Revolutionary Marxist Caucus of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).
Starting in 1979, along with the Spartacist League, the SYL (today known as the Spartacus Youth Club) began work in anti-fascist and anti-KKK mobilizations.
Young People's Socialist League: Founded in 1931 in New York City by Norman Thomas and the Socialist Party of America for the purpose of promoting the ideals of Democratic Socialism among the youth of Depression-era America.
reds.linefeed.org /youth.html   (1273 words)

  
 Movements, Misleaders and the Role of Revolutionaries: Spartacist Anti-LRP Polemics Backfire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
We have for years punctured their mind-boggling claim to be Trotskyists, demonstrating that Spartacist politics have nothing in common with the steadfast opposition to imperialism taught by Lenin and Trotsky.
But far from calling for unity of Arab workers and peasants with their rulers, as the Spartacists lie, we did just the opposite: we explained that the ruling-class figures who the masses’ mistakenly think are on their side are in fact so tied to imperialism that they inevitably betray the mass struggle.
The ‘Marxism’ of the Petty-Bourgeoisie: The Spartacist League and the USSR
www.lrp-cofi.org /PR/SLPR67.html   (4293 words)

  
 Trotskyist "Spartacist League"on MLP's refutation ofthe "Defend Iraq" slogan
Below is the reply of the Spartacist League to the article from the Marxist-Leninist Party entitled "More on the "defend Iraq" slogan: Building an anti-imperialist movement or putting hopes in Hussein's military?
The SL article is from the March 15, 1991 issue of Workers Vanguard, biweekly paper put out by the central apparatus of the Spartacist League.
The unnamed chief culprit was the genuinely Trotskyist Spartacist League which uniquely and forthrightly defended Iraq against imperialist attack.
home.flash.net /~comvoice/WAS9104SL.html   (2914 words)

  
 ICL 'Anti-American' Baits IG   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In the five years since leading cadres of the Spartacist League and other sections of the International Communist League were bureaucratically expelled, the SL/ICL has heaped one lie and invention upon another in its frantic attempts to discredit the Internationalist Group and the League for the Fourth International.
We have challenged the SL to explain why it was correct to call to defend Iraq, as the then-Trotskyist Spartacist League did in 1990 even before the bombs started falling on Baghdad, and why it is supposedly wrong to call to defeat the U.S. imperialist war today even after the bombs are falling on Kabul.
In the Vietnam War in the 1960s and early ’70s, the Afghanistan war and Central American civil wars of the 1980s and the Persian Gulf War of 1990-91, the SL/ICL called for defeat of U.S. imperialism and stood on the side of the countries and insurgencies Washington was attacking.
www.internationalist.org /iclantiamericanbaits.html   (3270 words)

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