French Trotskyists' and German Soldiers' Underground Paper in Nazi-Occupied France: Full Text
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World War Two created extremely difficult circumstances and political challenges for internationalist Marxists.
Workers' Liberty 3/20: Arbeiter und Soldat
1943: the situation in Europe
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By summer 1943 the Axis war machine was suffering heavy setbacks. Although Hitler had completed a total occupation of France in November 1942, and still held on to his conquests in the Low Countries, Denmark, Norway, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Greece, Ukraine, Belarus, the Baltic States and parts of western Russia, the Axis powers no longer looked able to win the war.
What does Arbeiter und Soldat stand for?
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No. 1 July 1943
is proletarian revolution coming?
On the dissolution of the Third International
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The Stalinist bureaucrats have dissolved the Comintern. “Warning”, declares the Axis propaganda, “this is just a manoeuvre, a chimera, playing dead”. “Hurrah!” the Anglo-Saxon imperialist press cries with joy, “our allies are not communists, they are good Russian patriots”. “Of course, it’s just a manoeuvre” is the rationalisation the communist worker still committed to the Third International
The agenda of global capital
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No. 2 August 1943
We the soldiers and the events in Italy
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German soldiers have received the Nazi press’s parcimonious news on events in Italy with bewilderment and with anxiety.
The real face of the war
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The real face of the war
Zeitung für Soldat und Arbeiter im Westen
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No. 2 Summer 1943
[Illegible] I came back from leave a few days ago and I was amazed by the situation in Germany. What I saw is not easy to describe.
A day of significance for the German workers
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May 1944
The SPD leadership’s treachery in the First World War left the German working class disarmed. Talk of revolution was smothered by the state of emergency. Therefore it was liberating when on 1 May 1916 Karl Liebknecht organised a demonstration in Potsdamer Platz with the support of thousands of workers from Berlin,
The future is in our hands!
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Soldiers! Comrades! A new and decisive phase of the Second World War has begun. Anglo-American capital has launched its troops on the offensive on the European continent. With 4,000 warships, 13,000 planes and half a million soldiers they have begun landings on the French Atlantic coast.