Society in support of popular struggles

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The Society for the Support of the People's Struggles (GUV) was a mass organization of the Communist Federation of West Germany (KBW) for trained academics , which existed under this name from 1974 to 1979.

history

The Communist Group (New Red Forum ) Mannheim / Heidelberg already had an intellectual organization called the Society for the Support of People's Struggles in the early 1970s[KG (NRF)], one of the most important predecessor organizations of the KBW, was launched. An important reason for academics to found their own company outside the KG (NRF) or later the KBW was that they would have had a negative impact on the KBW statistics. Double memberships GUV and KBW did occur, however. The KBW saw itself as a proletarian organization, but its members and sympathizers in the initial phase were mainly students or people with degrees who, however, could not always work in professions that corresponded to their qualifications.

The GUVs worked on the basis of the program of the KBW ( dictatorship of the proletariat ) and were guided by its local groups (from 1976 by the district associations). The focus of their activity was the struggle against fare increases in local public transport , against nuclear power plants in capitalist countries, against “ professional bans ”, against “note terror” etc. Individual GUVs published brochures on various topics. At the beginning of 1976 the societies for the support of the popular struggles had 741 members, the majority of whom were teachers, plus doctors, lawyers, professors and architects. The GUV was transformed into the Association for Revolutionary Popular Education - Soldiers and Reservists (VrV -SR) by a ZK resolution on January 21, 1979 .

The Communist Federation of Vienna (later the Communist Federation of Austria ) founded with the support of the KG (NRF) had a mass organization corresponding to the GUV, the Association for the Support of the People's Struggles .

Quote

“The organization of intellectuals (called 'Society for the Support of People's Struggles' - GUV) works closely with the individual local groups of the KBW. It is not a basic unit of the KBW, but an independent organization, which, however, considers the path to socialism, as it is described in the KBW program, to be the right one and has therefore made the KBW program recognized as its membership criteria. [...] "

“[…] It is their task to support the KBW, which they have won over through persuasion, in 'winning over the working class and the broad masses of the people for communism and the dictatorship of the proletariat as a political prerequisite for the social revolution.' “[Document of the Central Committee of the KBW]. "You do that

- by helping to counter communist views to the bourgeois press by distributing leaflets or selling newspapers;

- by supporting the political activities of the KBW in town and country, e.g. B. through district work etc.

[...] '

former members

Those KBW supporters with academic professions were organized in the GUV who could not directly become members of the KBW cadre party . a .:

Publications (selection)

  • The company health system in the hand of the working people , ed. Section Social Policy of the Society for the Support of the People's Struggles, Heidelberg: Sendler 1973, 2nd edition 1974
  • Typhus epidemic: business of the capitalists versus health of the population , Heidelberg: GUV 1974
  • 25 years of the Basic Law: 25 years of capital rule in the name of the people , Freiburg: GUV (approx. 1975)
  • Away with § 218. The people themselves should decide , Plankstadt: Sendler 1975, ISBN 3-88048-019-2
  • The Church in Münster and the Prohibition of Abortion , ed. from the Social Policy Section of the GUV, Münster: Communist Group, 1975
  • Uniform school up to the age of 18 under the control of the people , Hanover: GUV 1975
  • Profit production ruins the health of the working classes , GUV / Working Group on Company Healthcare , Heidelberg: Sendler 1976
  • Marine research, ruthless exploitation of the seas: and scientific findings that the government cannot tolerate , Mannheim: Sendler 1976 ISBN 3-88048-032-2
  • School readiness test - rough reading for the special school: a sophisticated system of oppression for the purpose of training to become wage slaves , Bremen: GUV (Bremen-Unterweser), [1979]

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the membership statistics presented by the Central Committee of the KBW: Report on the organizational development of the KBW , in: Political report of the Central Committee of the Communist Federation of West Germany to the 1st Ordinary Conference of Delegates , Heidelberg 1974, p. 67f. (Table social composition , p. 69), as well as table social composition in the activity report of the Central Committee of the KBW on organizational and economic issues (excerpts) , in: Kommunismus und Klassenkampf , special issue October 1981, p. 10f.
  2. ↑ Gegen Notenterror , in: Der Spiegel No. 2 of January 9, 1978, p. 64
  3. ↑ Gerd Koenen: Das Rote Dezehnt, Cologne 2001, pp. 422–23 (with the wrong year "1977" instead of correct 1976 , see Kommunismus und Klassenkampf , special issue October 1981, p. 11)
  4. ↑ Ulrich Probst: The Communist Parties in the Federal Republic of Germany , Munich 1980, pp. 36, 38
  5. ↑ kk .: “Emancipatory” professional practice of psychologists or political support for the economic and political struggles of the working class and the people? , In: Psychology - a form of bourgeois rule. Essays on the criticism of psychological theory and practice , Plankstadt: Verlag Jürgen Sendler, 2nd edition 1975 ISBN 3-88048-014-1