Working group for the Western European Labor Movement

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The Working Group West European Workers' Movement (AWA) was a working group that existed from 1976 to 1980, which studied and published documents of Eurocommunism , and organized political events. The working group was founded in 1976 by the sociologist Christof Kievenheim , a former employee of the Institute for Marxist Studies and Research and a former MSB board member. It consisted of Eurocommunist-oriented students and scientists who were previously mainly organized in the DKP or SEW , or who were close to these parties. In November 1977 the AWA organized a conference "on the methodological prerequisites for a strategy of the workers' movement in the FRG". Numerous well-known left-wing intellectuals (e.g. Wolfgang Abendroth , Elmar Altvater , Veit-Michael Bader , Joachim Bischoff , Wolfgang Fritz Haug , Sebastian Herkommer , Jörg Huffschmid , Urs Jaeggi , Michael R. Krätke and Wolf-Dieter Narr ) took part. The conference report was published as special volume 44 of the journal Das Argument . The group disbanded in 1980 when no agreement could be found on whether the AWA should also be a political organization in addition to its research activities.

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  • Working group West European workers' movement (ed.): Eurocommunism and Marxist theory of politics . Berlin, Argument-Verlag, 1979. ISBN 978-3-920037-17-2

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