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The origins of the Spartacist League go back to a left-wing tendency within the Young Socialist League, which was linked to the Independent Socialist League led by Max Shachtman, in the 1950s. This group objected to Shachtman's plans to merge the ISL into the Socialist Party-Social Democratic Federation and the YSL into the Young People's ...
The group originated within the Revolutionary Tendency of the Socialist Workers Party in the United States and, upon its expulsion from the SWP, it named itself Spartacist in 1964 in homage to the original Spartacist League in World War I Germany, co-led by Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht. [1]
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.
James Robertson (1928–2019) [1] was the long-time and founding National Chairman of the Spartacist League (US), the original national section of the International Communist League. In his later years, Robertson was consultative member of the ICL's international executive committee.
Spartacist League (US) Spartacist League of Britain; Spartacist League of Australia; Spartacist League of Israel; Spartacist League/Lanka; Spartacus League is the name of: 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.
United States – Revolutionary Communists of America [27] , Socialist Alternative, Socialist Action, Socialist Equality Party, Freedom Socialist Party, Fourth International Caucus, Internationalist Group, Reform and Revolution, Spartacist League, Socialist Workers Organization, Socialist Organizer, The Left Party US, Left Voice, [28] Spark ...
In 1917, the Spartacus League was affiliated with the Independent Social Democratic Party (USPD), founded by Hugo Haase and made up of anti-war former SPD members. According to Russian historian Edvard Radzinsky, "The Bolshevik envoy in Berlin began secretly purchasing arms for the German revolutionaries. A little while ago the Germans had been ...
The Spartacus League led the failed Spartacist uprising, after which Luxemburg and Liebknecht were killed by right-wing paramilitary Freikorps troops. Jogiches was murdered in Moabit prison in Berlin on 10 March 1919, likely since he was investigating the assassination of Luxemburg and Liebknecht.