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Germany Stop Being So Defensive [Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung] 01-04-2025
Germany ver.di wins “Forward Through Collective Bargaining” Award for landmark postal strike victory [UNI] 30-03-2025
Germany From law to action: New centre to strengthen workers’ rights through human rights due diligence laws [UNI Global Union] 19-03-2025
Germany Public Service Workers Across Germany Strike For Better Pay [The Pinnacle Gazette] 19-03-2025
Germany First collective agreement on the use of AI in film and TV production in Germany [UNI Global Union] 17-03-2025
Germany ver.di holds AI in retail conference to put workers at the centre of AI transformation [UNI Global Union] 14-03-2025
Germany / Europe Invest now, don’t deindustrialise - IndustriAll Europe joins national German rally on 15 March [IndustriAll Europe] 14-03-2025
Germany “Solidarity is our strongest tool:” UNI stands with ver.di Game Devs Roundtable in wake of Ubisoft Dusseldorf layoffs [UNI Global Union] 13-03-2025
Germany Germany; Flights cancelled as workers strike at 13 airports [Deutsche Welle] 11-03-2025
Belarus / Germany Living Stories at Voices: Portraits of women journalists Aksana Brovach and Georgine Kellermann [EFJ] 10-03-2025
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This month in labour history
2-04-1920 Military forces began assault against the workers' uprising in the Ruhr, Germany. The Social Democrats sent troops, including proto-fascists who tried to overthrow them like the Freikorps, to massacre workers, killing at least 1000. [more]
3-04-1920 The KAPD (Communist Workers' Party of Germany) was formed. In contrast to the KPD (the official Communist Party), which tried to get into government, the KAPD stood for direct action under the control of workers themselves. [more]
3-04-1920 Von Watter's troops recover by arms, the Ruhr. Soon, heavy sentences will be pronounced against the militant workers. A month after the putsch's defeat by the general strike, the accomplices of the putschists take their revenge. [more]
7-04-1919 Workers' councils declared the Bavarian Council Republic in Germany. However troops sent by the Social Democratic government crushed the rebellion at the end of the month, killing hundreds. [more]