Vienna workers staged the first mass armed anti-fascist resistance in 1934

Evidence

Bauer in particular was put to the test by a succession of postwar upheavals — the 1918 Revolution, the police massacre of 15 July 1927 and Dollfuss’s suppression of the Austrian labour movement in February 1934, when Europe witnessed in the working-class quarters of Vienna the first mass armed resistance to fascism. — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 203

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Vienna simultaneously hosted Hitler’s antisemitism model and Austro-Marxist socialism — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 203; Austria’s 1934 coup banned socialism and imprisoned Jewish intellectuals — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 681

Broader Connections

• Vienna simultaneously hosted Hitler’s antisemitism model and Austro-Marxist socialism #expands (0.75) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 203