Independent Workers' Party of Germany

The Independent Workers' Party of Germany (German: Unabhängige Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands, UAPD) was a short-lived communist party in West Germany. The UAPD was formed in 1950 as a split from the Communist Party of Germany by Titoists after he broke with the Soviet Union. Hoping to steer the party toward Trotskyism, the German section of the Fourth International, the International Communists of Germany (IKD) entered the UAPD. After fighting claims that it was secretly financed by Tito, the party disbanded in 1952.[1] The Trotskyists then entered the Social Democratic Party (SPD).[2]

References

  1. ^ Weber, Hermann [in German] (14 April 2011). "Die SED und der Titoismus. Wolfgang Leonhard zum 90. Geburtstag" [The SED and Titoism. Wolfgang Leonhard on his 90th birthday]. Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung, Deutschlandarchiv (in German).
  2. ^ Fichter, Tilman [in German]; Lönnendonker, Siegward [in German] (1977). Kleine Geschichte des SDS. Der Sozialistische Deutsche Studentenbund von 1946 bis zur Selbstauflösung [Little history of the SDS. The Socialist German Student Union from 1946 to its self-dissolution] (in German). Berlin: Rotbuch Verlag [de]. p. 149. ISBN 978-3-88022-174-1.