For a left flow

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For a left flow
(FelS)
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purpose Further development of radical left politics
Establishment date: 1991
Seat : Berlin
Website: rock.nadir.org

For a left movement (FelS) was a left-wing radical initiative from Berlin founded in 1991 . The group gave the magazine arranca! out. In May 2015, the group dissolved into the Berlin local group of the Interventionist Left (IL). FelS had been a member of the IL, which was then still organized as a network, since 2005.

History and organization

FelS was founded in 1991 by activists who were previously active in the broadest sense in the autonomous movement , but also had experience of political work with organizations in other countries. Some of the later founders took part in the 1990 "Heinz Schenk Debate" to criticize the Autonomous in the Berlin Autonomous magazine Interim . Six of those involved in the debate, including a. Dario Azzellini , tried to implement their demands on revolutionary politics in a new structure. In the summer of 1991 they responded to what they saw as a desolate situation with an organizational debate on the reconstitution of the left.

The first step was to try to put into practice the demands made on organization and strategically determined practice in this debate. In 1992 the magazine arranca! founded. In 1993 an attempt was made to create a nationwide context with the Initiative Linke Organisierung (ILO), in which a long-term, binding, theoretically well-founded cooperation beyond campaign policy was to be tried out. However, this initiative for a more theory-based collaboration encountered considerable communication difficulties and broke up in 1994.

In practice, the focus of the entire group at this point - after the annexation of the new federal states and the following pogrom-like excesses - was on anti- fascist work. In 1994, the group concentrated on supporting the Kaindl process in solidarity with the functionary of the " German League for People and Homeland ", Gerhard Kaindl, who was stabbed to death in a spontaneous Antifa campaign . A woman from the FelS context was wanted in a wanted list together with others. The then FelS member Raul Zelik wrote his first work on the Kaindl complex, the novel Friss and die anyway . A short interlude initiated in 1993 in the Antifascist Action / Nationwide Organization (AA / BO) ended in 1995 after a dispute over the position on Stalinism . In the following years the AG Antifascism and Antiracism u. a. carried out a campaign against what they believed to be fascist publishers. In 2004 a campaign against the Berlin-Grünau police deportation facility followed . Since 2006, the working group has primarily been concerned with preventing Nazi memorial events, for example in Halbe , Seelow or Wunsiedel .

In 1995 FelS mobilized together with other initiatives for a nationwide demonstration against the celebrations for the Day of German Unity , and FelS opened up a new field of work with the establishment of the International Solidarity Working Group (Intersol), the first focus was the solidarity work for Benjamin Ramos Vega, an alleged one ETA supporter who was imprisoned in Berlin at the time. In the following years Intersol u. a. on the war in Yugoslavia , on various summits such as the Munich Security Conference or the G8 summits in Cologne, Genoa or Heiligendamm . Since around 2005, the working group has taken over the field of anti-racism from the Antifa working group and focuses in particular on the work against the Central Reception Office for Refugees in Berlin .

In 1996 the social struggles working group was added, the focus here was initially on neighborhood work in the Berlin district of Friedrichshain . In 1997, a local store was founded on Boxhagener Platz in Friedrichshain. From 1998, a campaign for subsistence money was carried out in order to put the local struggles in a larger framework. a. led to a nationwide subsistence allowance congress in 1999. Starting in 2003, self-appropriation was propagated under the motto “Berlin Free of Charge!” And from 2005 the free use of local public transport was promoted more specifically with the “Pink Dot”. Once these forms of action have not had the hoped-for broad appeal, was in 2006 with the then since then annually on May 1 organized Mayday Parade found a form of action that is a multitude of social protests a place.

The Euromayday lost international power in the years after 2008. The hope that participation in the form of protest of the international movement would also develop broader and more solid organization locally was not fulfilled. In many local Euromayday contexts, the search for everyday forms of resistance and a more systematic preoccupation with precarious ways of living and working began. The social struggles working group also decided on a more systematic project to investigate living and resistance practices in a society characterized by unemployment , based on the militant investigation into the practice of Italian operaism and community organizing by the American Saul Alinsky . Job centers are the central institution for enforcing Hartz IV , temporary work , mini-jobs and general precarious employment . The social struggles working group chose the Neukölln job center , which is one of the largest in Germany. Publications are published and actions are carried out under the label Together against the Job Center Neukölln .

In the context of a major inquiry from the CDU regarding the networking of FelS with the “Alliance for Democracy and Tolerance - Against Extremism and Violence”, the Federal Government had no knowledge that FelS approved acts of violence. However, in 2007, on the 20th anniversary of the German Autumn , FelS criticized the legal practice of Section 129 of the Criminal Code ( membership in a terrorist organization ), quote: “Nobody comes up with the idea of ​​asking whether it is appropriate for a civil constitutional state to pass people over Imprisoned for 20 years, although no personal responsibility for the alleged acts can be proven. "

In 2005, the Interventionist Left (IL) emerged as a new nationwide organizational approach . The aim was initially to convey a fundamental criticism of capitalism in broad alliances at the G8 summit in Heiligendamm. As a more action-oriented form of organization, the IL lives in particular from the jointly organized blockades. FelS wrote about this: “If we want to advertise a broad constellation, the blockages can and must look different: sitting, standing and material blockages; and the activists' different readiness for confrontation and risk must also be taken into account ”. Blockades at the G8 summit in 2007 , against the right-wing extremist organization Pro Köln in 2008 and against the NATO summit in Strasbourg in 2009 were supported and prepared. In May 2015 FELS announced the dissolution of the group into a Berlin local branch of the IL. In the months before, other member groups of the IL, which was formerly organized as a network, had already reorganized themselves in Berlin and nationwide as local groups of the IL.

In 2008 the Klima-AG was founded, which focused on mobilizing against the UN climate summit in Copenhagen in December 2009.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ taz.de
  2. ↑ http://arranca.org/
  3. ↑ For a Left Current (FelS) (Ed.): "Heinz Schenk Debatte" . Texts to criticize the Autonomous - Organizational Debate - Founding of the group “For a Left Stream”. Documentation, new edition 2011
  4. ↑ Focus ( Memento from June 8, 2014 in the web archive archive.today )
  5. ↑ Sebastian Haunss: Identity in Motion . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2004, p. 135 ff . ( PDF ( Memento of September 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive )). Identity in motion ( Memento from September 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Constitutional Protection Report (Bund) 1994, p. 40
  7. ↑ Editor: Don't make the buck to the gardener. An assessment of the Kaindl case . arranca No. 4, July 1994
  8. ^ Constitutional Protection Report (Bund) 1993, p. 39
  9. ^ Constitutional Protection Report (Bund) 1995, p. 62
  10. ↑ together against.blogsport.de
  11. ↑ Answer of the federal government to a major request of the CDU parliamentary group Bundestag printed paper 15/5535 (PDF; 671 kB) May 2005, p. 16
  12. ↑ Felix Lee: Everything is misty. In: The daily newspaper . September 1, 2007, accessed February 15, 2020 .
  13. ^ Left-wing extremist protest preparations against the G8 summit in 2007 . ( Memento from December 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF) Verfassungsschutz Berlin, Berlin 2007, p. 4
  14. ↑ For a leftist trend: stop to move on! , May 21, 2015; See also: FelS becomes IL: Departure to New Shores , Neues Deutschland , May 21, 2015.