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Armed soldiers and sailors during the German revolution<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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01 Dec 1918, Berlin, Germany — Sparticists carry the red flag through the streets of Berlin in their call for a revolution and the establishment of a socialist republic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The German revolution of 1918-20 and its violent suppression is a little known event in the British popular memory. Where it is described the narrative typically commences with the mutiny of sailors from the German High Seas fleet over the first few days of November 1918. However, the numerous actions against the continuation of the war by hundreds of thousands of German soldiers on the western front during the preceding summer, have only been recently exposed by the work of historian Nick Howard.<\/a><\/p>\n

Drawing extensively on the research and writings of Howard, this talk exposes the scale and content of this resistance, which developed from refusals, desertion and mutiny to the formation of Soldiers\u2019 Councils, the organisational cells of the revolution that followed. It also charts the extraordinary events in \u2018occupied\u2019 Belgium where, in the autumn of 1918, nationalist war transformed into internationalist civil war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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