Letter: The German SPD on Zimmerwald, 1915
In Solidarity 662 , Sean Matgamna discussed James Connolly’s response to the Zimmerwald internationalist-socialist conference of 1915 and his promotion of German right-wing (pro-war) socialist voices during World War One. Digging out the response to Zimmerwald in the German Social-Democratic Party (SPD’s) central newspaper Vorwärts , 29 September 1915, gives context. Despite the SPD majority’s rightly-notorious capitulation by voting for German war credits on 4 August 1914 (and again later), Vorwärts responded more warmly to Zimmerwald than Connolly, who printed only a report from French...