BLOOD IN THE STREETS
Today in Berlin: 3 March, 1919
On this day in 1919 Berlin’s Workers’ Council called out the already second General Strike of 1919. This time quite determined to have the demands presented during the November Revolution fulfilled - nationalisation of the main industries, regulating the working hours, reforming the military, to name just a few of their demands - the council was not prepared to wait any longer. And so, on a grey and rainy Monday in a city shaken by unceasing political and social tremors, the last - and as it turned out bloody - chapter in the conflict between competing powers began…