Council of the People's Deputies
On 29 December, the only representative of the Revolutionary Stewards, Emil Barth (also a member of the USPD) and two further representatives of the USPD finally left the "Council of the People's Deputies" in protest against the events of the "Weihnachtskämpfe" (Skirmish of the Berlin Schloss), in which government troops were deployed against the "Volksmarinedivision", a unit of leftist revolutionary soldiers established on 11 November 1918. The fighting caused many on the left to accuse the leadership of the SPD of having betrayed the revolution.