Ernst Thalmann Speeches and Articles About History German Labor
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Page 1 Ernst Thalmann Speeches and articles about history German labor movement Volume 3 Selection from the years September 1930 to February 1932 After edition, Volume 1 Publisher Red Flag 1975 Page 2 CONTENT foreword ......................................................................................................................................4 Vorbemerkung............................................................................................................................5 The Road to Freedom (14 September 1930) ........................................ .................................... 11 The KPD after the parliamentary elections (September 1930) ......................................... ............... 18 Unfolded the red banner of the world October! (November 7, 1930) .......................................... 28 We lead the people to victory over the fascist dictatorship! (December 12, 1930) ........... 31 Comrade Thalmann about Ruhrkampf (January 6, 1931) ....................................... ............... 42 People's Revolution on Germany (15 to 17 January 1931) ...................................... ................. 44 A. Analysis of the situation and prospects of development ................................. 44 I. The Weltwirtschaftskrise...............................................................................................45 II. The position of Sowjetunion...........................................................................................48 III. The economic situation in Germany .............................................. .......................... 50 IV. The position of the German working class and the working people .................................... 52 V. The specific characteristics of the current crisis .......................................... ........ 53 VI. The perspective of the development of the crisis ............................................ ................... 56 VII. The political impact of the crisis in Germany ......................................... 59 VIII. The problem of the fascist dictatorship ........................................... ..................... 62 B. Our policy and the tasks of the Party ......................................... ........................... 64 I. Our mass struggle against fascism ........................................... ...................... 65 II. United Front and the struggle for the recovery of the working ................................... 67 III. The teachings of the strike struggles and the tasks of the RGO ........................................ 73 IV. Progress and shortcomings in the party work .......................................... ..................... 76 The KPD in advance (15 to 17 January 1931) ..................................... ................................... 88 Thalmann battle cry against fascism (February 3, 1931) ....................................... .... 101 Thalmann settlement with the Nazis (28 February 1931) ....................................... ............ 103 Comrade Thalmann revolutionary prosecution (22 March 1931) ........................................ ........ 104 Thalmann Reputation: Into the RGO! (April 5, 1931) ............................................ ................ 105 Ernst Thalmann shows the toiling peasants of Germany the way (april 1931) ...... 108 Thalmann fight greeting to the youth (April 5, 1931) ....................................... .................... 111 The situation in Germany and the tasks of the KPD (April / May 1931) ............................... 112 Thalmann May Fight greeting to the workers and peasants of the USSR (April 30, 1931) .......... 150 Ernst Thalmann May campaign speech (May 1, 1931) ....................................... ............................ 151 Kampfmai for Soviet Germany (May 1, 1931) ....................................... .......................... 156 Forward under the banner of the Communist International (May 14, 1931) ...................................... ............ 159 Thalmann calls: Battle of Bauernnot! (22 May 1931) ............................................ .............. 184 The SPD-workers the brother hand (11 June 1931) ...................................... ....................... 199 On the offensive against the class enemy! (July 24, 1931) ............................................ ...... 203 The SPD-workers and the "lesser evil" (September 18, 1931) .................................. ...... 209 About the red victory in Hamburg (September 30, 1931) ...................................... .......... 211 Some errors in our theoretical and practical work and the way to her Overcoming (Dec. 1931).............................................................................................214 Forge the red united front! (29 November 1931) ............................................ ........... 237 The center, the leading party of the German bourgeoisie (Jan 1932) ........................ 241 Some remarks on the work of the youth organization (Feb 1932) ................................. 257 Page 3 The revolutionary way and the KPD (February 19, 1932) ...................................... .......... 262 I. The international Lage...................................................................................................262 II. The situation in Germany ............................................ .................................................. .274 III. Our revolutionary mass struggle ............................................... .............................. 302 IV. Our ideological offensive and the Bolshevik criticism of shortcomings, weaknesses and failure of Parteiarbeit.................................................................................................311 V. Decisive turn on the field of our agitation and propaganda .............. 325 conclusion .........................................................................................................................330 ANHANG...............................................................................................................................341 Bauer utility of the KPD (Mai 1931) ........................................... ........................... 341 Page 4 Page 5 Preliminary remarks I The present edition of the speeches and essays of Ernst Thalmann from 1930 to 1933 appear on decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). It was compiled by a working collective of the publishing Red Flag. With this issue for the first time is a nearly complete collection of speeches and essays of Ernst Thalmann, this outstanding leader of the German working class, from the decisive struggle years before the seizure of Hitlerism made available. The output includes the Thalmann writings from the period between September 1930 and March 1933 the date of the arrest of Ernst Thalmann by Fascists. Thus, the output connects to where the collection of speeches and articles Thalmann the Dietz Verlag in East Berlin breaks with its second volume. The other issue This originally planned three-volume edition of the Dietz publishing house was of the SED Revisionists late fifties set without any explanation. The already printed second volume was not fully delivered. The first band was in the GDR not reissued by 1958th The third volume was never published. Given the fact that the first two volumes of the old Dietz edition in Templates Federal Republic until recently in photomechanical reprinting, while the Texts from the period from 1930 to the assassination of Ernst Thalmann 18 August 1944 majority of them are not tangible, decided the publisher Red Flag, first the speeches and Essays 1930-1933 issue in two half volumes. These present two Half volumes to be later in the multi-volume collection of speeches and articles Ernst Thalmann queuing that will issue the publisher Red Flag in the coming years. The publication of the writings of Ernst Thalmann encounters major difficulties. The Originals of most documents are either lost, destroyed by the fascists been or will be by the SED Revisionists in their specialized institutes under lock kept. Most of the old brochure editions are only a few copies receive. The publisher Red Flag has all the him speeches and essays of Ernst Thalmann, the in the form of brochures, magazine articles, printed reports, calling and Articles in the 'Red Flag' be summarized in this issue. The templates reprinted unchanged and unabridged. Only the punctuation and unique Set errors were corrected gently. Even if the issue can not claim, already a scientific to be critical business issue, so is their appearance but a great political and editorial success represents. Because it turns out: neither the Nazis nor the SED revisionists succeeded or able to destroy the revolutionary legacy of Ernst Thalmann or permanently to suppress. In 1974 we wrote: "On August 18, 1944, thirty years ago, Ernst Thalmann was murdered by the fascists. He died, like thousands of his comrades, as a revolutionary, unbroken, unwavering in Relying on the masses of the people and the victory of the proletarian revolution. The fascists could Ernst Thalmann murder. But his image and his revolutionary work as Communist and outstanding labor leaders they could not extinguish. His legacy lives on, will continue and will be fulfilled! " [Forward in the spirit of Ernst Thalmann !, brochure the KPD to 30th Anniversary of the assassination of Ernst Thalmann on 08/18/1944] Page 6 The SED / DKP revisionists try to be executor of revolutionary