Workers Power Group
The Workers ' Power Group, which was the Workers' Power Group until the G20 summit in Hamburg 2017 , is a Trotskyist group and the German section of the League for the Fifth International .
history
The group has its origins in the Spartacusbund (SpB), which disbanded in 1982. A faction that was in contact with the British organization Workers Power founded the Workers Power Group (GAM). These two groups, as well as the Irish Workers Group in Ireland and Pouvoir Ouvrier in France, joined together to form the Movement for a Revolutionary Communist International (BRKI). They quickly gained supporters from Austria, Peru and Bolivia and from then on called themselves the League for a Revolutionary Communist International ( LRKI ). This was followed by groups in New Zealand, Australia, Sweden and the Czech Republic. In 2003 they passed a new program and renamed themselves the League for the Fifth International (L5I).
In 2009, other organizations joined such as Workers Power (US), the Revolutionary Socialist Movement (Worker Power Pakistan) and the SPSL (Socialist Party of Sri Lanka, a left-wing split from the CWI ).
In the mid-2000s, part of the GAM and the majority of the youth organization REVOLUTION split off, this group later joined the FT-CI as the Revolutionary Internationalist Organization .
In 2017 it was renamed the Workers' Power Group.
activities
The group issues two publications: Die Neue Internationale as a monthly newspaper and Revolutionary Marxism as a theoretical organ.
In addition to working in industrial and social struggles, the trade union and the anti-crisis movement , the activities of the workers' power group also include other fields of intervention such as the anti-imperialist movement , the educational strike and support for the WASG (NLO wing) up to its merging with the former PDS to form a party die Linke 2007. From 2012 until its dissolution in 2016, the GAM, together with other Marxist groups, participated in the New Anti- Capitalist Organization (NaO).
The workers' power group works on the Linke Zeitung - a cross-curricular socialist media organ.
The workers' power group is in solidarity with the youth organization Revolution .
Assessment of the constitution protection authorities
The organization was described in 2005 by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution as "isolated even within left-wing extremism [...] self-appointed guardian of Trotskyist orthodoxy" who has "bases in at least a dozen cities". The goals of the organization are the disarmament of the bourgeois state, the establishment of council rule and, ultimately, the world revolution .
According to the Department of the Protection of the Constitution in the Senate Department for the Interior and Sport , the organization, together with other left-wing extremist groups, tried to support the WASG Berlin's electoral lists for the elections to the Berlin House of Representatives and the District Council Assemblies in 2006 as part of its Entrism strategy with its own candidates.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ WE ARE MOVING! Just in time for the actions against the G20 summit, our new website www.arbeiterinnenmacht.de goes online.
- ↑ Another chance
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from August 28, 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.
- ^ Banners of REVOLUTION and workers' power at the anti-nuclear demonstration in Cologne on March 26, 2011
- ^ Constitutional Protection Report 2005. Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution , archived from the original on October 26, 2007 ; Retrieved January 1, 2008 . , P. 176
- ^ Constitutional Protection Report 2006. (No longer available online.) Senate Department for Interior and Sport, Department for the Protection of the Constitution , archived from the original on September 29, 2007 ; Retrieved January 1, 2008 . 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. 80 f.
