Communist Workers' Union of Germany
| Communist Workers' Union of Germany (KABD) |
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| legal form | society |
| founding | 5th / 6th August 1972 |
| successor | Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany (MLPD) |
| resolution | 1982 |
| Members | estimated 900 (1982 as MLPD ) |
The German Communist Workers' Union (KABD) was a K-group in West Germany. He was on 5./6. Founded August 1972 through the merger of the Communist Workers' Union / Marxist-Leninists (KAB / ML) and the KPD / ML-Revolutionäre Weg , a split from the KPD / ML .
The declared aim of the KABD was to build a new Marxist-Leninist party after the " revisionist degeneration" of the KPD and DKP that existed from the point of view of its founding members . Willi Dickhut , one of the initiators of this union, was expelled from the illegal KPD as a critic in 1966. He was editor of the theoretical series Revolutionary Path .
The Red Flag was the central organ of the KABD. As a youth organization was renamed the Revolutionary Youth / Marxist-Leninists , which later together with the Young Communist League of Germany - Revolutionary way the Revolutionary Youth Association of Germany made (RJVD). The central organ of both RJ (ML) and RJVD was initially the rebel , later it was replaced by the sting .
For high school students there was the Marxist-Leninist student groups (MLSG), which published the Red Signal , but were only organized locally from June 1974. For students there were the Communist Student Groups (ML), which published the Red Arrow .
In 1982 the KABD founded the Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany (MLPD).
Members
Well-known former members of the KABD or its subsidiary organizations are:
- Robert Kurz , publicist and theoretician of value criticism
- Günther Jacob , DJ, music critic and writer
- Berthold Huber , trade unionist, former chairman of IG Metall .
- Heide Rühle politician ( Alliance 90 / The Greens ).
literature
- Central Committee of the MLPD: History of the MLPD , Essen 1985, ISBN 3-88021-142-6
Individual evidence
- ↑ Federal Agency for Civic Education: MLPD
- ↑ MLPD-ZK: History of the MLPD, Part II, 1st half volume, Düsseldorf 1986, p. 141
- ↑ focus-online accessed on July 29, 2011