Struggle! Organ for anarchism and syndicalism

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Struggle! Organ for Anarchism

and syndicalism

Logo Kampf Organ 1912.jpg
description Libertarian magazine
Area of ​​Expertise Syndicalism , anarchism
language German
publishing company A. Fricke, Hamburg
First edition 1912
attitude 1914
Frequency of publication per month
Sold edition an average of 3000 copies
Editor-in-chief Dieter Fricke, Paul Schreyer and others
editor Anarchist Federation Hamburg
Web link Brief information in the DadA
Article archive Karl Roche archive

The fight! Organ for anarchism and syndicalism (also under the titles: Kampf! Independent organ for anarchism and syndicalism and Der Kampf. Hamburger anarchistische Zeitung 1912–1914 , known) was a syndicalist and anarchist magazine. Published in Hamburg from May 1912 to June 1914 with a print run of between 2000 and 4000 copies, under the responsibility of several editors and editors from the anarchist federation Hamburg.

history

The Anarchist Federation Hamburg (AFH) issued a zero number of the magazine on May 1, 1912 and, with the exception of individual assemblies, concentrated on the publication of the "Kampf". The publication of the paper is said to be due to dissatisfaction with the newspaper Der Freie Arbeiter . Until the beginning of 1914 the editing was in the hands of A. Fricke and Paul Schreyer, after which H. Noll and W. Krauss took over the editing. According to the author J. Schlichting, this is said to have been the result of various disputes between Schreyer and the Hamburg Federation. The magazine's main topics were syndicalism, anarchism, communism and socialism.

In the July 1912 edition, the editors published a note to readers with the words: “Workers, comrades! What we want? What the name says, our name says it all. We want the fight! the fight against today's social order ... ". In addition, a call to join the “Anarchist Federation Hamburg” whose endeavor was to replace the capitalist economy with socialism , the elimination of the state for the establishment of socialism, anti-militarism to combat militarism , social strike as a means of struggle against, among other things Parliamentarism . No. 2 (1912) reported on the general strike in Zurich and the newspaper Hamburger Nachrichten was mentioned. They had attributed a miserable tendency to the “fight” and made the issue available to the police with the concluding words, “... but we considered whether the hospital staff might not be the more correct address”. No. 4 carried an editorial with the headline "Hunger" by P. Schreyer, he criticized the rising food prices, import bans and the usury of the customs laws.

The tasks of the trade unions and the organization of the labor movement played an important role in terms of content . In the opinion of the editors or publishers, anarchism would be a class struggle between the oppressed and exploited against the beneficiaries who maintain the economic system by force. The “Anarchist Federation of Germany” (AFD), to which the “Anarchist Federation of Hamburg” was affiliated, wanted a new regulation of society without a state on a “communist-anarchist” basis (No. 6, 1912) and therefore spoke in its draft “ Our program “outlines an economic principle in which everyone can work according to their abilities and everyone can live according to their own needs (No. 7, 1913). The "Anarchist Federation of Germany" (AFD) saw the education about anarchism as its main goal. The "Kampf" was indignant about the armaments madness and that "the war is a crime" (No. 10, April 1913). No. 11 (1913) was dedicated to May 1st , with “The Awakening of the Proletariat”, “General Strike”, poems by E. Mühsam, JH Mackay and an article on “Syndicalism in the International ”. “The assassinations and us” was the title of an article (No. 12, June 1913), signed by P. Schreyer. In the article, the author went into the fact that anarchism on the one hand rejects "assassinations as a means to achieve the anarchist goals", but on the other hand it was not denied that "anarchists carried out assassinations", whereby the assassinations, according to the author, are not in the anarchist ideology, but “in the coincidental political circumstances”.

Articles by, among others, Alfred Bader, Paul Schreyer, FD Nieuwenhuis , Fritz Brupbacher , Karl Roche, Johann Most , Erich Mühsam and Victor Hugo were published with the following topics: "World peace, The Syndicalism marches, The problem of New Malthusianism, marriage, free marriage, free love, social democratic anti-militarism, European cultural pioneers, the goal of the trade union movement, the uprising in Catalonia and Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia , democracy and freedom, the fall of the Paris Commune , Christian cultural work ”and others. A supplement appeared with each issue . Anarchist monthly newspaper with various topics and the headings in the individual issues: "Events, mailboxes, From the movement, international issues and book shows".

A new edition should appear by August 10, 1914 with "new editors": A. Peukert, Krause, A. Fricke, W. Krauss, and H. Noll. However, the "fight" probably no longer appeared because of the beginning of the war.

literature

  • FAU Hamburg (ed.), The fight. Hamburger anarchist Zeitung 1912–1914 . Reprint , completely in booklet form. Hamburg 1986
  • Ulrich Linse : Organized anarchism in the German Empire from 1871 . Pages 235, 249, 257-261. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969 (also: University of Munich , dissertation 1969)
  • Hartmut Rübner , Freedom and Bread. The Free Workers Union of Germany. Pages 32, 91, 92. Libertad Verlag , Potsdam 1994. ISBN 3-922226-21-3
  • Max Nettlau (Ed. :), History of Anarchy . In collaboration with the International Institute for Social History ( IISG , Amsterdam). New edited by Heiner Becker. Library Thélème, Münster 1993, 1st edition, reprint of the Berlin edition, Verlag Der Syndikalist , 1927.
    • Volume 5. History of Anarchy. Anarchists and syndicalists . Page 236

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Archives of Karl Roche . Digitized editions of the “Kampf! Organ for Anarchism and Syndicalism ”. Retrieved March 20, 2011
  2. ↑ See: Jonny Schlichting in the preface to the reprint “Der Kampf. Hamburger anarchist Zeitung 1912–1914 ”, Ed .: FAU Hamburg, 1986
  3. ↑ See No. 7, 1913 and No. 6, 1912
  4. ↑ See: Ulrich Linse, Organized Anarchismus im Deutschen Kaiserreich from 1871