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The Spartacus League (German: Spartakusbund) was a Marxist revolutionary movement organized in Germany during World War I. [1] It was founded in August 1914 as the International Group by Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, Clara Zetkin, and other members of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) who were dissatisfied with the party's official policies in support of the war.
The Spartacist League/U.S. (SL, SLUS, or SL/US) is a Trotskyist political grouping which is the United States section of the International Communist League (Fourth Internationalist), formerly the International Spartacist Tendency.
The uprising took its popular name from the Marxist Spartacus League (Spartakusbund), which Luxemburg and Liebknecht founded in 1914. When the KPD was established on 1 January 1919, the Spartacus League became part of it.
The Spartacus League vehemently rejected the SPD's support in the Reichstag for funding the war and urged Germany's labor unions to declare an anti-war general strike. As a result, Luxemburg and Liebknecht were imprisoned in June 1916 for two and a half years.
The International Communist League (Fourth Internationalist) abbreviated as ICL(FI), earlier known as the international Spartacist tendency (iSt) is a Trotskyist international. Its largest constituent party is the Spartacist League (US) .
The original Spartacus League (Spartakusbund, 1914–1919), a communist organisation in post-World War I Germany well known for its ties to the revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg. Spartacus League of Left Communist Organisations (Spartakusbund linkskommunistischer Organisationen, 1926–1927), a league of left communist organisations in Germany.
The History Channel's Barbarians Rising (2016) features the story of Spartacus in its second episode entitled "Rebellion". The fifth series of sitcom Outnumbered had Ben Brockman (Daniel Roche) play Spartacus in a musical called Spartacus. [63] Spartacus appears in the season 6 premiere of DC's Legends of Tomorrow, portrayed by Shawn Roberts. [64]
The Spartacus League led the failed Spartacist uprising, after which Luxemburg and Liebknecht were killed by right-wing paramilitary Freikorps troops. Jogiches was killed in Moabit prison in Berlin on 10 March 1919, likely since he was investigating the assassination of Luxemburg and Liebknecht.