Arbeiterpolitik

Labor policy. Weekly magazine for scientific socialism was the name of a journal that was published in Bremen June 1916 to March 1919 in a print run of up to 3,000 copies by Johann Knief.

This legal magazine relied on the cooperation of the Bremer left-wing radicals. The magazine was financed by collections under Bremer workers and donations. It was mainly used in North West Germany, but then also in other centers of the German left. About Feldpost and leisure travelers, the magazine also found to soldiers at the front and abroad.

In Switzerland, for example, Lenin belonged to the recipients. By the spring of 1917, the editorial staff was led by Knief. Others included Otto Rühle, Karl Radek, Anton Pannekoek, Paul Frölich et al The Journal oriented mainly against right opportunist and centrist tendencies within the social democracy. So they turned against the connection of the Spartacus group to the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany ( USPD ) and demanded the formation of an independent organization of the German left.

In addition, she joined " the initiation of the international association of socialist workers by continuing the work of forest and Kiental room " for. As of mid- 1917, the concept of a unitary organization was represented, both should take over the tasks of a party as a trade union organization. Expression of this syndicalist concept found this in the call for a boycott of Free Trade Unions.

The magazine welcomed and defended the October Revolution. 1918 individual chapters were published from scripture and from State and Revolution The Military Programme of the Proletarian Revolution by Lenin.

• Political magazine ( Germany )
• Antiquarian Magazine ( Germany )
• Social Democratic Party of Germany
• First publication in 1916
• Posted in 1919