Association of West German Communists
| Association of West German Communists (BWK) | |
|---|---|
| Party leader | Jörg Detjen |
| founding | 1980 |
| resolution | 1995 |
| Headquarters | Cologne |
| Alignment | communism |
| Number of members | estimated 600 (1980) |
The Bund West German Communists (short name: BWK ) was a small party (one of the so-called K groups ) in the Federal Republic of Germany from 1980 to 1995 .
history
This communist party was founded in 1980 as a split from the Communist League of West Germany . A group of approx. 600 members around the member of the central committee of the KBW Martin Fochler carried out the separation, taking along considerable parts of the infrastructure. Other well-known Central Committee members were Jörg Detjen (Managing Director of the Central Committee from 1980 to 1995) and Christoph Cornides . The BWK appealed to stand alone behind the program of the KBW from 1973 and to continue the revolutionary tradition of the KBW.
The central organ was the journal " Politischeberichte " published by the Central Committee of the BWK in the publishing house GNN mbH (Society for News Recording and Distribution based in Cologne, later Schkeuditz near Leipzig) , which was published every fortnight (from year 1, no. 1 of October 13, 1980 ) appeared. Wolfgang Müller, Christiane Schneider and Ulrich Grothus were initially responsible for the editorial team . The publications of the GNN also included the magazine " Geheim" , the relatives 'information from people from the environment of the Red Army Faction (RAF) and the "Kurdistan Brief" in which supporters of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) also contributed.
The BWK took part in several elections with little success. From 1981, BWK members engaged in by then from the KPD / ML -beeinflussten Popular Front . Negotiations with the United Socialist Party in the second half of the 1980s to unite the two organizations failed due to different assessments of the events in Central and Eastern Europe, the turnaround in 1989 in the GDR and feminism , both of which the BWK took as opposed to VSP adopts a negative or critical attitude. There was an ever increasing donation to politically related organizations such as the DKP and the PDS . Until 1994 the BWK had regional associations in nine federal states.
At the 15th ordinary delegates' conference on 4th / 5th March 1995 in Cologne , the BWK decided to dissolve itself as a political party. At the same time, a political association without party status "Bund West German Communists - Federal Conference" was founded. The members initially worked in a working group for the Federation of West German Communists in and with the PDS , later on the Forum of Communist Working Groups . The working group was dissolved at the end of 2007. Former BWKers have been organized in the ArGe Concrete Democracy - Social Liberation , an intra-party association of the party Die Linke , since the beginning of 2008 .
elections
The BWK took part in the following federal and state elections:
- 1982 state parliament election in Lower Saxony 80 votes (0.0%).
- 1982 State election in Bavaria 413 votes (0.0%). Upper Bavaria constituency with four applicants.
- 1983 Bundestag election 2,129 (0.0%). However, the BWK only started in three federal states (Lower Saxony, Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria) with an "open list" in consultation with the KPD / ML .
- 1986 state election in Hamburg 198 votes (0.0%).
literature
- Gerd Langguth : Protest movement. Development, decline, renaissance. The New Left since 1968 . Cologne, Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik 1983, 2nd unchanged edition 1984 (pp. 100–102: Bund Westdeutscher Kommunisten)
- Jürgen Bacia: The Communist League of West Germany , in: Richard Stöss (Hrsg.): Party handbook. The parties of the Federal Republic of Germany 1945-1980 . Opladen, Westdeutscher Verlag 1984, Volume 2, pp. 1648–1662 (for BWK see pp. 1656, 1658, 1660)
- Constitutional Protection Reports 1980 (1981) ff.
Individual evidence
- ↑ The opinion of the KBW was as follows: "They are not entitled to these funds. Of course the resigned members were involved in raising these funds. But they were raised for the KBW, by members of the KBW, for the work of the KBW. They were not applied as a deposit that would have to be taken with you when you left. The KBW has not dissolved, so there is no inheritance to distribute. " , quoted after communism and class struggle. Special number. October 1981 , p. 18
- ↑ Initially in Munich (until the establishment of the Cologne party headquarters)
- ↑ Wolfgang Müller (born January 14, 1948 in Duderstadt), former research assistant at the University of Oldenburg, secretary of the Bremen local management of the KBW, candidacy for the Bremen citizenship election in 1975 and for the federal election in 1976, victim of the radical decree, from summer 1980 BWK.
- ^ Christiane Schneider (born August 8, 1948), former printing worker, since 2008 member of the Die Linke party in the Hamburg Parliament.
- ↑ Ulrich Grothus (born December 25, 1952 in Hagen), as a student KBW candidacy in the 1975 parliamentary elections in Berlin (-Kreuzberg), from summer 1980 BWK.
- ↑ Christoph Seils : BWK becomes "AG BWK at the PDS". The Bund of West German Communists infiltrates the PDS / party leadership wants to shake off sectarian image in the West , in: Die Tageszeitung , February 21, 1995, p. 5; ders. Communists out. PDS takes action against the Bund West German Communists in its own ranks , In: Taz , March 20, 1995, p. 4
- ↑ Candidates comment in: Hamburger Abendblatt from January 3, 2008