Examples of using Fvdg in English and their translations into German
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Political
The FVdG also received support from abroad.
Anarchist andespecially syndicalist positions became increasingly popular within the FVdG.
The FVdG promptly responded by founding the weekly"Mitteilungsblatt.
During the years following its formation, the FVdG began to adopt increasingly radical positions.
The role of the general strike for the socialist movement was first discussed within the FVdG in 1901.
About 450 of them joined the FVdG before World War I, a sign of what was to come after the war.
Moreover, Rudolf Rocker, a communist anarchist and follower of Kropotkin,joined the FVdG in March 1919.
The FVdG, on the other hand, was the only labor organization in the country which refused to participate in the"Burgfrieden.
The 1917 February Revolution in Russia was seen by the FVdG as an expression of the people's desire for peace.
The FVdG reacted by publishing the secret protocols from the meeting in"Die Einigkeit," greatly angering the party leadership.
Pre-war period==Following the split from the SPD, the FVdG was increasingly influenced by French syndicalism and anarchism.
Although the FVdG insisted that the"goal is everything and... must be everything"(a play on Bernstein's formula that"the final goal, whatever it may be, is nothing to me: the movement is everything"), it was unable to do much more than keep its own structures alive during World War I.
During the German socialist movement's debate over the use of mass strikes, the FVdG advanced the view that the general strike must be a weapon in the hands of the working class.
The FVdG generally agreed with their Dutch comrades in calling on other unions to decide between syndicalism and socialism, while their Italian, French, and Spanish counterparts, most notably Alceste De Ambris of the Italian USI, were more intent on preventing further division.
After the strike andthe ensuing collapse of the General Miners' Union, the FVdG expanded its unions rapidly and independently of the aforementioned political parties, especially in the Ruhr region.
After both the British Industrial Syndicalist Education League(ISEL), a short-lived syndicalist organization heavily involved in the strike wave in Britain from 1910, and the Dutch syndicalist union National Labor Secretariat(NAS)published proposals for an international syndicalist congress in 1913, the FVdG was the first to express support.
In the first days of the war, about 30 FVdG activists in Cologne, Elberfeld, Düsseldorf, Krefeld and other cities were arrested-some remaining under house arrest for two years.
Although there was no contact between German"intellectualanarchists"(like Gustav Landauer and Erich Mühsam) and the FVdG, it did have influential anarchist members, most notably Andreas Kleinlein and Fritz Köster.
The end of cooperation between the FVdG and the political parties in the Ruhr region was part of a nationwide trend after Paul Levi, an anti-syndicalist, became chairman of the KPD in March.
While the mainstream labor movement was quick to agree with the state that Russia andthe United Kingdom were to blame for igniting the war, the FVdG held that the cause for the war was imperialism and that no blame could be assigned until after the conflict ended.
The Free Association of German Trade Unions(; abbreviated FVdG; sometimes also translated as Free Association of German Unions or Free Alliance of German Trade Unions) was a trade union federation in Imperial and early Weimar Germany.
Radicalization andexpulsion from the SPD==During the first decade of the 20th century, the FVdG was transformed from a localist union federation into a syndicalist labor organization with anarchist tendencies.
November Revolution and re-founding as FAUD==Some claim that the FVdG influenced strikes in the arms industry as early as February or March 1918, but the organization was not re-established on a national level until December 1918.
The delegates reflected upon the difficult times during the war andproudly noted that the FVdG was the only trade union which did not have to adjust its program to the new political conditions because it had remained loyal to its anti-state and internationalist principles.