Pfingstseminar 2026: a milestone for Marxism in the German-speaking world With 350 participants, this year’s Pfingstseminar was by far the biggest ever. And with over 100 comrades from the RKP in Germany in attendance, it was a truly internationalist school. Under the motto “Down with Imperialism!”, the event served as a powerful impetus for building the forces of revolutionary communism in the German speaking world. We also welcomed comrades from Britain, Switzerland, Sweden, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, and Hungary.
Austria: inspirational Communist School on the relevance of Ted Grant today On 13 and 14 December, 195 revolutionaries from all over Austria, with guests from Germany and London, gathered in Vienna for the ‘Communist Winter School’.
War and revolution: the case of Austria 1914-18 The Russian Revolution of 1917 shook the world and sparked a series of revolutionary events internationally. In this article, Konstantin Korn and Emanuel Tomaselli look at the way the revolutionary process unfolded in Austria towards the end of the First World War, including an overview of the general strike of January 1918, and how the Social-Democratic leaders betrayed the movement.