Today in Labor History November 3, 1918: The German Revolution of 1918–19 began when 40,000 sailors took over the port in Kiel, in the wake of the Wilhelmshaven mutiny, a few days earlier. In less than two weeks, it brought down the German empire, forcing all the monarchs to abdicate. They created a republic, led by the moderate Social Democrats, who vowed to implement modest reforms, including women’s suffrage and the eight-hour work day. The far-left socialists, however, wanted to create a republic led by workers’ councils. At the end of the year, violence erupted between the two groups over a dispute about sailors’ pay, killing 67. This led to the Communist Spartacist Uprising, led by Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, and the Bavarian Soviet. The Social Democrats enlisted the Freikorps to help them suppress the uprisings against its authority, resulting in another 200 deaths. The Freikorps was composed of right-wing veterans of World War One, many of whom went on to become members of the Nazi Party.

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Today in Labor History October 29, 1918: Wilhelmshaven sailors’ mutiny in Germany. Soldiers and workers brought public and military institutions under their control. They demanded the release of the imprisoned, an end to World War I, and the improvement of food provisions. By November 4, Kiel was firmly in the hands of 40,000 rebellious sailors, soldiers and workers, as was Wilhelmshaven two days later. Workers across Germany elected workers' and soldiers' councils modeled after the Soviets of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and took over military and civil powers in many cities. These events triggered the German Revolution of 1918-1919, which ended the German empire and established the Weimar Republic.

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Today in Labor History October 19, 1920: Sylvia Pankhurst was arrested for sedition for writing “Discontent on the Lower Deck” in the newspaper “The Workers' Dreadnought.” She was also a leader of the Hands-Off Russia! Campaign and she urged workers not to load ships supplying arms to anti-communist forces. She was sentenced to six months in prison. In her appeal, she said: “I have been in prison; most of the people are there by poverty or drink… Girls are in prison because they tried to commit suicide, because the world was too hard for them. You may put me in prison but you cannot stop the cause, it is stronger than I.”

Plankhurst was a leader of the English women’s suffrage movement. She was also a left (council) communist and follower of Anton Pannekoek. In her “Constitution for British Soviets,” she argued that “Mothers and … organizers of the family life of the community [should] be adequately represented, and … take their due part in the management of society [through] a system of household Soviets…”

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