Inprecor

Inprecorr ( abbreviation for International Press Correspondence ) was from 1921 to 1939, the newspaper of the Communist International ( Comintern ) and was issued in up to eight languages ​​under various titles. Various successor bodies appeared until the dissolution of the Comintern in 1943. Since 1971, the tradition of Inprecorr of the Fourth International continues.

Founding of the newspaper

On July 16, 1921, the Presidium of the Executive of the Comintern ( ECCI ) decided to establish the Inprecorr:

On August 13, 1921, the details were fixed:

For editors were appointed:

The issue was published on 24 September 1921 on German; on 1 and October 13, 1921 followed by the first editions in English and French.

Inprecorr was primarily an information service for the Communist press. However, from January 1923 to March 1926 published a weekly edition for the wider public; July 1926 to February 1930 the normal output could also be obtained from the post office. She was the most common journal of the Comintern, by means of which the Communists were provided with information about the events in the Soviet Union and the current party line learned.

Editorial addresses to 1933

  • Since Sept. 1921: Berlin C 54, Rosenthalerstraße 38
  • Since Dec. 1921: Berlin SW 48, Friedrichstrasse 225
  • Since Dec. 1923 Vienna IX, Berg Gasse 31
  • Since Jan. 1924 Vienna VIII, Lange Gasse 26/12
  • Since Apr. 1926 Berlin SW 48, Friedrichstrasse 225
  • Since 1928: Berlin, Bülowplatz ( today: Rosa Luxembourg Square)
  • Later: Berlin SW 68, Linden Road 71-72

1933-1943

After 1933, the work of Inprecorr regionalization: The German edition was published under the name of founded in 1932 Rundschau of Basel, later of Zurich and Lausanne with the editorial by Theo Pinkus; the English moved to London, to Paris, the French and the Czech Prague.

Because of increased repression in Switzerland, the central editorial office was moved in 1935 to Paris. After the banning of the Communist Party in France in September 1939 Inprecorr appeared under the name of The World as a German edition of the Swedish newspaper Världen i Dag. It was published by Jacob Rosner.

With the imprint of the decision to liquidate the Communist International on May 15, In 1943, the World ceased publication.

Revival 1971

From a private initiative of a member of the Fourth International was formed in 1971 the idea of ​​a revival of Inprecorr:

The newspaper was published under the formal responsibility of the United Secretariat of the Fourth International, but was not a pure party organ:

After the German edition had a circulation of 500, also spending in French, Spanish and English published.

Inprecorr is still published today, currently every two months. The French edition is published monthly; the English and Spanish as well, but only as a web editions.

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