Communist Federation of Luxembourg

The Communist League of Luxembourg (KBL) was a Marxist-Leninist organization in Luxembourg , based on the policies of the Communist Party of China (CCP) , which existed from 1972 to 1980.

The KBL emerged in the early 1970s from the “revolutionary wing” of the politically rather heterogeneous Luxembourg school and student organization ASSOSS ( Association générale des étudiants luxembourgeois ). After the Trotskyist parliamentary group, which founded the Ligue communiste révolutionnaire (LCR) in 1971, left the New Red Forum in Heidelberg , one of the predecessor organizations of the Communist Federation of West Germany (KBW). After intensive programmatic discussions, the Communist League of Luxembourg was founded in January 1972 as a cadre organization based on the People's Republic of China .

As early as September 1972, a four-person faction around the former editor of some of the organization's magazines resigned and formed a Communist Group Luxembourg (KGL). Another split occurred in 1975 with a group that then appeared as the Communist Organization of Luxemburg / Marxist-Leninists (KOL / ML) and published Marxist-Leninist papers . A desired union of these two groups, which leaned more closely to the CCP's policies than the KBL , did not materialize. The KOL / ML returned to the KBL in the summer of 1978 , thereby re-establishing the “unity of the Marxist-Leninists”. The KGL had already dissolved in the course of 1976.

In December 1978 the KBL called for the establishment of an alternative list for the 1979 chamber elections. At the same time, the traditional Marxist-Leninist view of the world began to be questioned, which finally led to two-thirds of the members leaving the KBL in May 1980 and the establishment of the ecological and undogmatic company, socialism .

A residual group of the KBL under the Secretary of the Politburo Charles Doerner was still active until the end of 1980. The exact date of dissolution is not known.

Delegations from the Communist Federation of Luxembourg visited the People's Republic of China several times at the invitation of the CCP, including in 1973, 1976 and 1979, which was reported in the Chinese press. Congratulatory telegrams and condolences from the Politburo members Charles Doerner and Robert Medernach were occasionally quoted in the Peking Rundschau as well as statements from the KBL central organ Rote Fahne on current political events.

The KBL had a youth, school and student organization with its own magazines that existed before it was founded ( D'Rod Wullmaus , 1970ff.). The central body of the KBL has been the Rote Fahne since 1972 , and from 1977 Roude Fändel / Drapeau Rouge (closed at the end of 1980).

literature

Robert J. Alexander: Maoism in the developed world , Westport, Conn .: Praeger, 2001, pp. [113] -114 ( Maoism in Luxemburg ) ISBN 0-275-96148-6 .
Frédéric Krier: Beijing's fifth column . On the history of the Luxembourg Marxist-Leninist groups , in: Forum for Politics, Society and Culture , No. 276, May 05/2008, pp. 36–40 ( PDF ).

Individual evidence

↑ The KBL initially had particularly good relations with the KBW . KBL representatives were guests in June 1973 at the founding conference of the KBW, founding declaration of the KBW , in: Kommunistische Volkszeitung (KVZ) No. 1 / June 1973; 1973 reports on events in Luxembourg by Charles Doerner (CD) appeared in the KVZ
^ Luxembourgish brother organization of the Maoist KPD
↑ Delegation of the Communist Federation of Luxembourg in China , in Pekíng Rundschau , No. 13 of March 30, 1976, p. 15 (On the visit of a three-person delegation from the KBL under the leadership of First Secretary Charles Doerner)
^ Letter from the Politburo of the Communist League of Luxembourg , in: Peking Rundschau , No. 52, December 28, 1976, p. 29 (With this letter of October 28, 1976, Charles Doerner congratulated Hua Guofeng on his appointment as chairman of the CPC Central Committee)
^ Letter from the Politburo of the Communist League of Luxembourg , in Peking Rundschau , No. 30 of July 27, 1976, p. 39 (on the death of Tschu Teh ); Telegram from the Politburo of the Communist League of Luxembourg , in: Peking Rundschau , No. 45 of November 9, 1976, pp. 39-40 (Robert Medernach on the death of Mao Zedong )
↑ Soviet Union - No. 1 Aggressor in Africa , in: Peking Review , No. 17 April 22, 1977, pp. 47-48 (from Rote Fahne )

Web links

Jürgen Schröder: Luxembourg. Materials for analyzing opposition. 2007.

[1] The KBL initially had particularly good relations with the KBW . KBL representatives were guests in June 1973 at the founding conference of the KBW, founding declaration of the KBW , in: Kommunistische Volkszeitung (KVZ) No. 1 / June 1973; 1973 reports on events in Luxembourg by Charles Doerner (CD) appeared in the KVZ

[2] Luxembourgish brother organization of the Maoist KPD

[3] Delegation of the Communist Federation of Luxembourg in China , in Pekíng Rundschau , No. 13 of March 30, 1976, p. 15 (On the visit of a three-person delegation from the KBL under the leadership of First Secretary Charles Doerner)

[4] Letter from the Politburo of the Communist League of Luxembourg , in: Peking Rundschau , No. 52, December 28, 1976, p. 29 (With this letter of October 28, 1976, Charles Doerner congratulated Hua Guofeng on his appointment as chairman of the CPC Central Committee)

[5] Letter from the Politburo of the Communist League of Luxembourg , in Peking Rundschau , No. 30 of July 27, 1976, p. 39 (on the death of Tschu Teh ); Telegram from the Politburo of the Communist League of Luxembourg , in: Peking Rundschau , No. 45 of November 9, 1976, pp. 39-40 (Robert Medernach on the death of Mao Zedong )

[6] Soviet Union - No. 1 Aggressor in Africa , in: Peking Review , No. 17 April 22, 1977, pp. 47-48 (from Rote Fahne )