USPD

Überblick

	1917 founded in Gotha by Hugo Haase and Wilhelm Dittmann
	1918 active participation in the January strikes and the November Revolution
	leadership of the first revolutionary government by Kurt Eisner in Bavaria; actively involved in the formation of the Munich Republic of Councils
	represented in the Weimar National Assembly
	1920 majority decision in favour of joining the 3rd International; shortly after that schism into KPD and SPD
	continuation of USPD as splinter party under Georg Ledebourg

Struktur
radically Marxist, it opposed continuation of the First World War and further authorisation of war credits;