Today in Labor History February 9, 1907: Over 3,000 women marched in London for women’s suffrage. Later, people called it the Mud March because of the incessant rain, which left the women splattered in mud. The march came in the wake of several years of direct action, led by Emmeline Pankhurst’s WSPU (AKA the suffragettes). It was the largest suffrage march to date in England and garnered considerable publicity. Emmeline Pankhurst was the mother of Sylvia Pankhurst, a left (council) communist and follower of Anton Pannekoek.

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Today in Labor History June 24, 1943: Otto Rühle (1874-1943), German Left communist of the Spartacist League, died in Mexico. Early in his life, Rühle trained and worked a school teacher. He created a socialist Sunday school and criticized traditional school in "Work and Education" (1904), "The Enlightenment of Children About Sexual Matters", (1907), and, "The Proletarian Child" (1911). In 1912, he was elected to the Reichstag as a Social Democrat.
However, he is much more well known for his role as a leader of the Council Communist movement, along with Anton Pannekoek. They opposed the state communism of the Soviet Union and advocated for Workers Councils and Council Democracy. Lenin attacked them in his pamphlet, “Left-wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder.” Rühle was also a comrade of Karl Liebknecht, Rosa Luxemburg and Franz Mehring and very active in the German Revolution. He opposed both World Wars and fascism.

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Today in Labor History February 9, 1907: Over 3,000 women marched in London for women’s suffrage. Later, people called it the Mud March because of the incessant rain, which left the women splattered in mud. The march came in the wake of several years of direct action, led by Emmeline Pankhurst’s WSPU (AKA the suffragettes). It was the largest suffrage march to date in England and garnered considerable publicity. Emmeline Pankhurst was the mother of Sylvia Pankhurst, a left (council) communist and follower of Anton Pannekoek.

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Heute vor 150 Jahren: Der Rätekommunist #AntonPannekoek wird am 2. Januar 1873 in Vaassen in den Niederlanden geboren. #AndiesemTag

«In dem Rätesystem wird die politische Organisation auf dem ökonomischen Arbeitsprozess aufgebaut.»

Anton Pannekoek, de la Terre à la Lune en passant par les conseils ouvriers

Astronome réputé, #AntonPannekoek est aussi l’un des penseurs les plus importants du mouvement des #ConseilsOuvriers. Après qu’il a été longtemps négligé et méprisé, il est peut-être temps de reconnaître son originalité radicale et sa grande modernité.

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