Vorwärts
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Vorwärts ("Forward") was the central organ of the Social Democratic Party of Germany published daily in Berlin from 1891 to 1933 by decision of the party's Halle Congress, as the successor of Berliner Volksblatt, founded in 1884.
Friedrich Engels and Kurt Tucholsky both wrote for the Vorwärts. It backed the Russian Marxist economists and then, after the split in the Party, the Mensheviks. It published articles by Leon Trotsky, but would not ever publish any by Vladimir Lenin.
During the First World War Vorwärts opposed pacifism and neutrality (prompting accusations from half of the Socialist camp that it had become chauvinist). The paper was staunchly opposed to the October Revolution.
During the Nazi period, the Social Democratic Party of Germany was forbidden, and so the publication of Vorwärts had to stop in 1933.
In 1948, the paper was refounded as Neuer Vorwärts ("New Forward") and in 1955 finally renamed to Vorwärts again. Today it has a monthly circulation of about 515,000.
