Socialist Workers' Party of Germany

The Socialist Workers' Party of Germany (German: Sozialistische Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands, SAPD) was a centrist Marxist political party in Germany. It was formed as a left-wing party with around 20,000 members which split off from the SPD in the autumn of 1931. In 1931, the remnants of Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) merged into the party and in 1932 some Communist Party dissenters also joined the group as well as a part from the Communist Party Opposition. Nevertheless, its membership remained small. From 1933, the group's members worked illegally against Nazism.^[3]

This article is about the SAPD active 1931–1945. For the party called SAPD in 1875–1890, see Social Democratic Party of Germany.

Socialist Workers' Party of Germany

Sozialistische Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands

1931 (1931)

1933 (1933)

KPD-O (1932)
USPD

SPD

Berlin, Weimar Republic

Sozialistische Arbeiter-Zeitung

Socialist Youth League of Germany^[1]

Sozialistischer Schutzbund^[2]

25,000 (1931)
15,600 (1933)

Centrist Marxism
Democratic socialism

Left-wing

International Revolutionary Marxist Centre

Red

Sozialistische Arbeiter-Zeitung

(Socialist Protection League)

Sozialistischer Schutzbund

(1963). Die Sozialistische Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands (SAPD): Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Deutschen Arbeiterbewegung am Ende der Weimarer Republik [The Socialist Workers' Party of Germany (SAPD): A contribution to the history of the German workers' movement at the end of the Weimar Republic] (in German). Meisenheim am Glan: Hain. Repr. Hannover: Politladen, 1971; 2. Repr. Hamburg: Junius, 1999 (the classic account).

Socialist Workers' Party of Germany