Communist Workers Party of Germany is the English name of the Kommunistischen Arbeiter-Partei Deutschlands and is more generally known by its initials KAPD. It was founded in April 1920 in Heidelberg as a split from the Kommunistischen Partei Deutschlands or KPD. Originally the party remained a "sympathising member of Communist International. In 1922 the KAPD split into two factions, both of whom kept the name but are reffered to as the KAPD Essen Faction and the KAPD Berlin Faction. The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Look up April in Wiktionary, the free dictionary April is the fourth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of four with the length of 30 days. ... 1920 (MCMXX) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ... Heidelberg (halfway between Stuttgart and Frankfurt) is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. ... 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). ... The Comintern (from Russian Коммунистический Интернационал (Kommunisticheskiy Internatsional) – Communist International), also known as the Third International, was an independent international Communist organization founded in March 1919 by Lenin, Trotsky and the Russian Communist Party (bolshevik), which intended to fight by all available means, including armed force, for the overthrow of the international... 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...

KAPD Essen Faction was linked to the Communist Workers International. The Communist Workers International (German: Kommunistische Arbeiter-Internationale, KAI), also known as the Fourth International, was a council communist international. ...

The party published a paper, Kommunistische Arbeiter-Zeitung.

Activists in the KAPD:

• Paul Mattick (1904-1981)
• Bernard Reichenbach
• Otto Rühle (1874-1943)
• Karl Schröder (1884-1950), Essen Faction

See: Council communism Paul Mattick (1904-1981): Born in Pomerania in 1904 and raised in Berlin by class conscious parents, Mattick was already at the age of 14 a member of the Spartacists Freie Sozialistische Jugend. ... 1904 (MCMIV) is a leap year starting on a Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Bernard Reichenbach was a member of the Executive Committee of the Communist International. ... Otto Rühle (1874 - 1943) was a German Left Communist active in opposition to both the First and Second World Wars, and a founder with along with Karl Liebknecht, Rosa Luxemburg, Franz Mehring and others of the group and magazine Internationale, which posed a revolutionary internationalism against a world of... 1874 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1943 (MCMXLIII) is a common year starting on Friday. ... 1884 is a leap year starting on Tuesday (click on link to calendar). ... 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... [Essen], german for Meal [essen], german for eat Essen is the name of the following places: Essen, Germany, one of the major cities of the Ruhr area Essen, Belgium Essen, Netherlands, a village in the province of Groningen German: to eat, eating, food This is a disambiguation page — a navigational... Council communism was a radical Left movement originating in Germany and the Netherlands in the 1920s. ...

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