Labor Policy Group

The Workers' Policy Group ( GAP ) is a left-wing socialist organization in the Federal Republic of Germany that has existed with interruptions since 1947. The group has been publishing the newspaper Arbeiterpolitik (Arpo) since 1948 . After the Second World War , the GAP followed the tradition of the Communist Party of Opposition (KPO) and set itself apart sharply from the party communism of the KPD and SEW, as well as from social democracy . Cooperation with the occupying powers and the assumption of public offices were categorically rejected.

Positions and Development

The GAP was based on August Thalheimer's global political analyzes and thus had, according to Gregor Kritidis, a theoretical basis "which far surpassed most theoretical works of socialist origin." The most famous GAP activists were Theodor Bergmann and Heinrich Brandler . In the early post-war years, the fight against dismantling was the main theme of the CAP. A single success was achieved: with the massive participation of a large GAP group, the dismantling of the Salzgitter works was prevented. The workers' uprising in the GDR on June 17, 1953 was lively welcomed in the GAP newspaper.

In the course of the 1950s, in the CAP, the contradiction between the theoretical claim and the possible practice increased. Soon afterwards, like other left-wing socialist groups, emigration to the SPD began . The Workers' Policy Group will remain as a political circle .

Web links

Current homepage of the Workers' Policy Group , accessed on August 26, 2020.

Klaus Peter Wittemann: Communist politics in West Germany after 1945. The approach of the workers' policy group. SOAK Hannover 1977. Download,

Individual evidence

↑ The presentation follows Gregor Kritidis: Left Socialist Opposition in the Adenauer era. A contribution to the early history of the Federal Republic of Germany , Hanover: Offizin, 2008, ISBN 978-3-930345-61-8 , pp. 202 ff.
↑ Gregory Kritidis: Left Socialist opposition in the Adenauer era. A contribution to the early history of the Federal Republic of Germany , Hannover: Offizin, 2008, p. 202.

[1] The presentation follows Gregor Kritidis: Left Socialist Opposition in the Adenauer era. A contribution to the early history of the Federal Republic of Germany , Hanover: Offizin, 2008, ISBN 978-3-930345-61-8 , pp. 202 ff.

[2] Gregory Kritidis: Left Socialist opposition in the Adenauer era. A contribution to the early history of the Federal Republic of Germany , Hannover: Offizin, 2008, p. 202.