Workers' Union for the reconstruction of the KPD

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Workers' Union for the reconstruction of the KPD
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Basic data
Alignment Marxism-Leninism
Establishment date May 1973
Place of foundation regensburg
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Members ~ 300 (1970s)
130 (2012)

The Workers' Union for the Reconstruction of the KPD (AB) is a communist organization in West Germany that is mainly active in Bavaria. It emerged in May 1973 from Munich's “basic worker groups” and is one of the K groups . The Bavarian Office for the Protection of the Constitution classifies them as a “ left-wing extremist cadre organization”.

1970s and 1980s

The AB represents a Maoist reading of Marxism-Leninism and refers to the ideas of Josef Stalin and Mao Zedong , among others . He initially oriented himself towards the People's Republic of China . He viewed them as the center of socialism, the Soviet Union as “ social-imperialist ”, the DKP as “social-democratic” and the Germans as a people oppressed by imperialists and social-imperialists. Similar to other K groups ( KPD / ML , KPD ), the AB used a “partially bombastic nationalism” in the 1970s. After the death of Mao Zedong and the end of the Cultural Revolution , he distanced himself from Chinese politics in 1977, but stuck to Maoism.

The AB initially concentrated - similar to the German Communist Workers' Union (KABD) - exclusively on work in the factories and limited itself to “fulfilling functions of a quasi 'only trade union' representation of interests”. In the late 1970s and early 1980s he participated in anti-fascist politics. The AB was the only K group that ever issued an election recommendation for the DKP (1974).

Helge Sommerrock and Thomas Schmitz-Bender , who came from the Munich SDS , were at the head of the AB for a longer period of time . Admission criterion for members is membership of the industrial workers, otherwise a guarantee from two industrial workers for a “proletarian attitude”. A characteristic of the AB was always an agitation and propaganda activity that followed on from stylistic elements of the workers' movement culture of the late 1920s ( shawm bands , cabaret performances , Brecht theater). The AB was able to gain influence in trade unions at certain points.

While towards the end of the 1970s most Maoist groups (e.g. KB , KPD (AO) , later also the KBW ) oriented themselves in the direction of alternative movements and ecology and helped build the Greens , the AB refused to adopt a large-scale industrialist concept of socialism fixed on the basis of scientific and technical progress, this as a "petty bourgeois" tendency. In 1977 he revised his previous “rejection of nuclear power plants in capitalism” and described the anti-nuclear power movement as retrograde and “ machine-storming ”. Even after the Chernobyl reactor disaster in 1986 , the AB resolutely advocates the use of nuclear energy, which it said a. on the part of other left groups the nickname “Workers' Union for the Reconstruction of Nuclear Power Plants”.

Split after 1989

After 1980, the AB took an increasingly friendly attitude towards the Soviet Union and the GDR . The revolutions in 1989 and the end of the communist systems in Eastern Europe was assessed as a “defeat of the labor movement”, which triggered an orientation crisis in the AB. Initially, a discussion began about a renewal of the 1974 program; However, the majority of the Central Committee around Sommerrock and Schmitz-Bender then came to the conclusion that the situation of defeat was not favorable for the formulation of a new program. The continued publication of the Communist Workers' Newspaper (KAZ) as an agitprop organization would also not make sense.

This was followed by the split of the AB into the "KAZ faction", which continued to publish the KAZ alone, with a now more analytical and propagandistic concept, and the "Zug faction", which focuses on theatrical actions such as the staging of Brecht's Anachronistic Train ( with the cooperation of the Brecht daughter Hanne Hiob ) and campaigned for the continued existence of the GDR. While the KAZ faction was now striving for cooperation with the DKP, the Zug faction took the view that communists in the old states of the Federal Republic of Germany should organize themselves in the AB, while in the new states they should organize themselves in the communist platform of the PDS , with the the AB held joint “workers' meetings”.

Although the "Zug-AB" rejects all-German organizations, it promoted the entry of its youth organization "Initiative for the Union of Revolutionary Youth" into the Free German Youth (FDJ), which is close to the AB in West Germany.

The KAZ faction left the AB in 1996 and continues to exist as the Communist Workers' Newspaper (KAZ) group. Some of its members joined the DKP at the same time. The number of members of the AB, which only consists of the Zug faction, is estimated at a little over 100, that of the KAZ group at a few dozen.

present

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AB and the KAZ group are unanimous in taking the view that, in line with Lenin's theory of imperialism , since 1990 there has been an intensification of the competition between the imperialist powers, which was previously curbed by the systematic conflict in the post-war period, in which German imperialism is becoming the challenger to the USA. According to Karl Liebknecht's motto, the struggle must primarily be waged against the “main enemy in one's own country”. In 2003, the AB was the only traditional communist organization in Germany (besides a few autonomous groups) to not support the protests against the Iraq war because it viewed Germany's non-participation as an expression of the growing self-confidence of German imperialism towards the USA and opposition to a US war only benefit German imperialism. The AB rejects anti-Americanism and anti-Zionism and strongly opposes any anti-Semitism.

The AB never took part in elections, but called for the election of the SPD, DKP (as the only K group in the 1970s) and PDS. In the 2002 Bundestag election, the AB recommended voting for the SPD in the west and for the PDS in the east. The AB does not strive for a democratic-parliamentary balance of interests, but would rather first organize the working class and bring about an expropriation of the monopoly capitalists through strikes with simultaneous occupation of the production facilities . In order to achieve this goal, the organized workers should also be armed if necessary.

Associated with the AB is an "Association for the Promotion of Scientific Worldview".

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helmut Bilstein, Sepp Binder, Manfred Elsner, Hans-Ulrich Klose, Ingo Wolkenhaar: Organized Communism in the Federal Republic of Germany: DKP - SDAJ - MSB Spartakus KPD / KPD (ML) / KBW / KB. 4th expanded and revised edition. Opladen 1977, p. 75, footnote 125
  2. ↑ a b Bavarian Constitutional Protection Report 2012 ( memento of the original from June 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 142f @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.verfassungsschutz.bayern.de
  3. ^ Gerd Langguth : Protest movement - development, decline, renaissance. The New Left since 1968 . Cologne 1984, p. 111; See also: Jens Benicke : So that Germany belongs to the Germans. About the nationalism of the K groups. In: Jungle World. June 17, 2010, accessed October 21, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Michael Steffen: Stories from the Truffle Pig. Politics and Organization of the Communist Federation 1971 to 1991. Berlin, 2002, p. 269
  5. ↑ Michael Steffen: Stories from the Truffle Pig. Politics and Organization of the Communist League 1971 to 1991. Berlin, 2002, p. 34
  6. ↑ Michael Steffen: Stories from the Truffle Pig. Politics and Organization of the Communist Federation 1971 to 1991. Berlin, 2002, p. 179
  7. ↑ http ://www.arbeiterbund-fuer-den- Wiederaufbau-der-kpd.de/atomenergie.html