Antifascist Action Berlin
The Antifascist Action Berlin (AAB) was one of the best known and most members Antifa groups in the Federal Republic of Germany . It was founded around 1993 and ten years later split into two groups.
The AAB was initially founded under the name Antifa A&P (Agitation and Practice) at the beginning of the 1990s and was significantly involved in the creation of a nationwide organization Antifaschistische Aktion / Nationwide Organization (AA / BO). In particular, the demonstrations she co-organized on May Day in Kreuzberg achieved a comparatively large number of participants and high media presence for the left-wing radical scene. Because of its undogmatic approach and its unusually pragmatic handling of the media for left-wing extremists , it was criticized by the traditional autonomists , who offered their “superficial political marketing”.
The AAB operated the website www.antifa.de, which was referred to in several reports on the protection of the Constitution as its "own, professional Internet homepage".
The AAB justified militant anti-fascism , which also included physical violence against right-wing extremists . As a political group, however, the AAB explicitly saw itself as non-violent. In addition, the AAB is also directed against the prevailing social conditions and capitalism .
The primary goal of the AAB was to set up concrete structures in Berlin and the surrounding area. One of the main areas of activity was youth work , working with smaller youth groups in different parts of Berlin. These included, for example, the Jugendantifa Marzahn (JAM), Antifa Jugend Aktion Schöneberg / Steglitz (AJAS), Antifa Jugend Aktion Kreuzberg (AJAK), Jugendantifa Friedrichshain (JAF), Antifa Süd-Ost (ASO), Antifa Jugend Aktion Potsdam (AJAP) and Antifascist Rote Dornen (ARD).
After the end of the AA / BO and the debates within the radical left about the positions on the Middle East conflict , the group split into two roughly equal fractions in February 2003: the traditionally left-wing radicals who were more “activist” or “actionist” Wing joined together in the Antifascist Left Berlin (ALB). The group Criticism and Practice Berlin (KP Berlin) initially emerged from the more theoretical wing . The successor groups do not achieve the significance of the AAB.