Communist Party Lëtzebuerg
| Communist Party Lëtzebuerg Parti communiste luxembourgeois Communist Party of Luxembourg |
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| Party leader | Ali jerks |
| Secretary General | Jos Ruckert |
| vice-chairman | Gilbert Simonelli |
| State Treasurer | Georgette Schweich |
| founding | January 2, 1921 |
| Headquarters | BP 403 4005 Esch-sur-Alzette |
| Alignment |
Communism Marxism-Leninism |
| Parliament seats | no |
| International connections | International meeting of communist and workers' parties |
| Website | www.kp-l.org |
The Kommunistesch Party Lëtzebuerg ( German Communist Party of Luxembourg , French Parti communiste luxembourgeois ), KPL for short , is a communist party in Luxembourg .
history
1921–1945: Foundation and beginnings
The Communist Party of Luxembourg was founded on January 2, 1921 as a split from the Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party in Niederkorn. In the same year the irregularly published central organ Der Kampf was commissioned. In the following parliamentary elections on May 28, 1922, the KPL missed entry into the Luxembourg parliament . In 1930 the new press organ Workers' Voice appeared for the first time . Twelve years after their first election, the KPL succeeded in the parliamentary elections in June 1934 with Zénon Bernard for the first time in the Chambre des Députés . As early as November 1934, he was expelled from the Chamber of Deputies by majority vote on the grounds that an opponent of the constitution could not take the oath on the constitution . From the summer of 1935 until the invasion of Hitler's Germany armies on May 10, 1940, the weekly newspaper Volksstimme , which appeared at irregular intervals, replaced the workers' voice as the central organ. In June 1940 the KPL was banned. She continued her resistance struggle underground and called for the rebuilding of the unions. From February 1941 she distributed the underground newspaper The Truth . In August 1942, numerous arrests thinned the ranks of the KPL. After the liberation, the weekly central organ Volksstimme was published for the first time on September 28, 1944 .
1945–2000: ups and downs
In the first parliamentary elections on October 21, 1945 after the Second World War , the party moved into the chamber with five members . From 1945 to 1947 she was also part of the all-party government made up of CSV, LSAP, DP and KPL. In the following year, on July 1, 1946, the new newspaper vum Lëtzebuerger Vollek appeared for the first time , which replaced the weekly Volksstimme , which was approved two years ago, as a daily newspaper . In the next few years the KPL was able to establish itself in parliament. Her best election result was achieved in the parliamentary elections on December 15, 1968 with 15.6% of the valid votes and six members of parliament. In the next few years, however, the KPL always had to accept a loss of votes before it left the Chamber in the parliamentary elections on June 12, 1994 with an election result of 1.6% . In 1999 the KPL participated in the founding of the new party Die Linke , which was a reservoir for disappointed Social Democrats , Socialists and Communists . In the parliamentary elections that followed on June 13, 1999, the Left won 3.3% and one member in the Luxembourg Parliament. After the Left on April 30, 2000 in the new elections of the municipal council of the city of Esch-sur-Alzette achieved their best election result with 12.8% and with André Hoffmann appointed the deputy mayor, he resigned his mandate. The KPL member Aloyse Bisdorff moved up for him .
2000–2017: Current situation
After persistent tensions within the left, the left alliance broke up, so that the KPL ran in the parliamentary elections on June 13, 2004 parallel to the left with its own lists. The KPL achieved its worst election result ever with 0.9%. Subsequently, a part of the party split off when the KPL leadership blamed three members for the failure. In response, the affected members founded the Red Foxes splinter party ( lux. Roude Fiisschen , fr. Petits renards rouges ). In the 2005 municipal elections, the Left and the KPL competed against each other again, with the result that the Left was eliminated from four out of five municipal councils and the KPL was unable to win a mandate. In an open letter in December 2007, the Left offered the KPL a joint candidacy for the 2009 parliamentary elections. However, the KPL refused to do so and ran for election with its own open lists. The KPL improved slightly to 1.5%. However, it was not enough for a seat in parliament. Even in the early parliamentary elections in 2013 , the KPL was unable to gain a seat in parliament with 1.6%.
In the local elections in 2011, the party again won several council seats in the south of the country ( Differdange , Esch an der Alzette , Rümelingen ). In the local elections in 2017, the seat in Esch-sur-Alzette could not be defended. After the municipal elections and after extensive negotiations, the KPL and the social democratic LSAP in Rümelingen joined an aldermen's council (similar to the federal German municipal council ), replacing a CSV government.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Histoprim: Organized Resistance in Luxembourg ( Memento of the original from June 17, 2008 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.
- ↑ Zeitung vum Lëtzebuerger Vollek: Geschichte ( Memento of the original from October 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Déi Lénk: "We are for a common left-wing list" ( Memento of the original from June 11, 2008 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.
- ↑ ZK of the KPL: "KPL goes into the elections with open lists of candidates" ( Memento of the original from April 8, 2008 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.
- ↑ Ali Ruckert: How do you feel about the communists? Newspaper vum Lëtzebuerger Vollek , November 27, 2011.
- ↑ Rümelingen: LSAP and KPL want to break new ground. KPL homepage, October 2, 2018.
