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Title page of the first Inprekorr

Inprekorr (Abbreviation for Internationale Pressekorrespondenz ) was the newspaper of the Communist International (Comintern) from 1921 to 1939 and was published in up to eight languages ​​under different titles. Various successor organs appeared until the Comintern was dissolved in 1943. Since 1971 the tradition of the Inprekorr has been continued by the Fourth International .

Foundation of the newspaper

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On July 16, 1921, the Presidium of the Executive of the Comintern (EKKI) decided to found the Inprekorr:

“It is decided to publish a correspondence sheet in Berlin; the sheet should appear in German , English and French . It is intended to bring up-to-date correspondence on global political and global economic issues, the development of communism, lead the fight against the social democrats and the Amsterdamers, discuss tactical questions within the framework of the guiding principles of the congress and put others up for discussion. Each party is obliged to appoint a correspondent. "

On August 13, 1921, the details were set:

"The ones from the gene. Thalheimer's proposed guidelines are accepted. For the time being, the correspondence appears two or three times a week in German, twice in French and English. "

The following were appointed as editors:

The first edition appeared in German on September 24, 1921; The first editions in English and French followed on October 1 and 13, 1921.

Inprekorr was primarily an information service for the communist press. From January 1923 to March 1926, however, a weekly edition appeared for the wider public; from July 1926 to February 1930 the normal edition was also available through the post office. It was the Comintern's most widely distributed magazine, through which communists received information about what was going on in the Soviet Union and learned about the current party line.

Editorial addresses until 1933

  • since Sept. 1921: Berlin C 54, Rosenthaler Strasse 38
  • since Dec. 1921: Berlin SW 48, Friedrichstrasse 225
  • since December 1923: Vienna IX, Berggasse 31
  • since January 1924: Vienna VIII, Lange Gasse 26/12
  • since April 1926: Berlin SW 48, Friedrichstrasse 225
  • since 1928: Berlin, Bülowplatz (today: Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz )
  • later: Berlin SW 68, Lindenstrasse 71-72

1933-1943

The title page of an edition of the English language Inprekorr from 1938

After 1933 the work of Inprekorr was regionalized: The German edition appeared under the name of the Rundschau von Basel founded in 1932 , later from Zurich and Lausanne with the editing by Theo Pinkus ; the English moved to London , the French to Paris, and the Czech to Prague .

Due to intensified repression in Switzerland, the central editorial office was relocated to Paris in 1935. After the Communist Party was banned in France in September 1939, Inprekorr appeared under the name Die Welt as the German edition of the Swedish newspaper Världen i Dag . The editor was Jakob Rosner .

With the printing of the Comintern's resolution of May 15, 1943, Die Welt ceased its publication.

Revival 1971

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description German Marxist magazine
First edition 1971
Frequency of publication bi-monthly
Sold edition 500 copies
ISSN (print) 0256-4416

In 1971, a private initiative of a member of the Fourth International gave rise to the idea of ​​reviving Inprekorr:

“I read the [international] press and thought: You have to spread that to the people, that's important what's going on; Workers' struggles in France, resistance to the Franco dictatorship in Spain, guerrilla fights in Latin America, strikes in Britain. That's why I translated articles that I found important or that I was enthusiastic about, copied them and sent them to our people. That's how it started. Then the 'ancient Trotskyists', i.e. Jakob Moneta , Rudi Segall, Willy Boepple said: 'Yes, that's incomprehensible .' "

The newspaper appeared under the formal responsibility of the United Secretariat of the Fourth International, but was not a pure party organ:

"We have also copied articles from friendly organizations or from the liberation movements, for example statements from the Chilean MIR and interviews about the resistance against Augusto Pinochet ."

After the German edition had reached a circulation of 500, editions were also published in French, Spanish and English.

Inprekorr appears to this day, currently every two months. The French edition appears monthly; English and Spanish as well, but only as web editions.

Since January 2017 the International Socialist Organization has published the magazine “ die internationale ”. "Inprekorr" has since appeared as part of this new magazine.

literature

  • Irén Komját: The history of the Inprekorr . Frankfurt am Main 1982, ISBN 3-88012-650-X .
  • Björn Mertens: The first Inprekorr . In: Inprekorr , No. 299 (Sept. 1996).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The activities of the executive and presidium of the EC of the Communist International from July 13, 1921 to February 1, 1922, Petrograd 1922, p. 15.
  2. ^ The activities of the executive and presidium of the EC of the Communist International from July 13, 1921 to February 1, 1922, Petrograd 1922, p. 71.
  3. ↑ Irén Komját: The History of Inprekorr, Frankfurt am Main 1982 ( ISBN 3-88012-650-X ), p. 12.
  4. ↑ Manès Sperber : Until they put broken pieces on my eyes. All the past ... Europaverlag, Vienna 1977, p. 101.
  5. ↑ Irén Komját: The story of the Inprekorr . Frankfurt am Main 1982, ISBN 3-88012-650-X , p. 35.
  6. ↑ Bruno Frei : The paper saber. Autobiography . S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1972, p. 182.
  7. ↑ Irén Komját: The story of the Inprekorr . Frankfurt am Main 1982, ISBN 3-88012-650-X , pp. 40-47.
  8. ↑ a b Interview with Ingo Speidel in Inprekorr , No. 300 (Oct. 1996)