Spartacus League
After two months, on January 10, 1919, the Independent Social Democrats on the council, joined with the fledgling communist party, the Spartacus League, in declaring Bremen a Soviet (or Council) Republic in defiance of the SPD-led regime in Berlin. Within three weeks it was crushed the right-wing military "Freikorps". Despite the reverse of revolutionary hopes, and continuing division, the left maintained a strong presence in Bremen.