On #ThisDayInHistory in 1920, 100,000 gathered outside Germany's parliament to protest a law #SocialDemocrats were using to weaken the #WorkersCouncils from the #GermanRevolution. In the #ReichstagBloodbath, police fired into crowds as they stormed in, killing ~42, wounding ~105.

Police setting up a mounted machine gun during the strike behind a barricade of sandbags. By The Town Crier newspaper, February 15,1919 - http://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/social/id/2956/rec/7, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=72402259

Today in #LaborHistory 2/11/1919: #Seattle #GeneralStrike ended after 5 days due to sell-out by AFL bureaucrats. Both AFL and #IWW participated. Workers councils controlled most city services, incl food distribution & security. Gave 30,000 meals each day.

#workingclass #workerscouncils

Anton Pannekoek, BG A10/804 (rasterfoto), De Nederlandse arbeidersbeweging tot 1918, Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis, Amsterdam. By Unknown photographer - Geheugen van Nederland, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=45595153

Today in #LaborHistory 1/2/1873: Anton #Pannekoek (1873-1960) was born. Astronomer, mathematician, radical anti-authoritarian #communism. #WorkersCouncils.” Lenin attacked #CouncilCommunism in his pamphlet “Left Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder."