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...Spartacist League, a Trotskyist organization which also supports today's demonstration, announced yesterday that an anonymous letter had warned it that if it interfered with the Brandeis ceremony in any way, "this demonstration will be your last...
Cohen denied Spartacist suggestions that the JDL had sent the letter. "Usually when there are anonymous letters that are attributed to us they're signed 'Never Again' or something," he added...
...answer. That is going too close to the heart of the matter." She is determined not to discuss the trial, not even to deny her guilt, until she has seen and talked to the other defendants. "The group is involved. We are responsible for one another. It is a Spartacist thing." She explains that in the film Spartacus, the Romans demand of the captured rebels that Spartacus identify himself, and one by one every man in the group stands and replies, "I am Spartacus...
...revolutionaries' aim in 1918 was to take over Berlin, where the police chief was an outright sympathizer and bands of sullen unemployed workers stood ready to riot. Despite warnings from the astute theorist Rosa Luxemburg that revolution was premature, the Spartacists kept urging revolt in the streets. In January 1919, they got what they asked for: an uprising. The desperate Socialists, who had done their best to cooperate with the far left, turned to the far right for help. Remnants of the Kaiser's army, informally organized into Freikorps, marched into Berlin, ruthlessly smashing the rebellion and executing...
...archbishop, Faulhaber found plenty of fighting at home. Munich was one of the battlegrounds of the "Spartacist" (Communist) uprising of 1919, and Faulhaber risked his personal safety to preach against the Reds. In 1921 he became a cardinal. His friend Pope Pius XII, then Cardinal Pacelli, Papal Nuncio at Munich, called him "the speaking symbol of the Church Militant...