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CultureRebels, workers, radicals: The making of 'Red Berlin'

From Bloody May and student sit-ins to the squatter movement, Berlin has a long history of working-class organizing and radical left-wing politics. The article traces the city’s labor movement from the 19th century through the 1918 mass strike and the 1919 Spartacist Uprising, whose violent suppression permanently fractured the left.

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Rebels, workers, radicals: The making of 'Red Berlin'
Rebels, workers, radicals: The making of 'Red Berlin'Culture