League against Imperialism

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The League Against Imperialism ("League") was a Maoist organization in the 1970s that supported the "liberation struggle of the oppressed peoples of the world". It was founded on July 14, 1971 in Berlin as an “anti-imperialist mass organization” of the KPD / AO , in whose political work it was involved as a preliminary organization . The model was the League against Imperialism and Colonial Oppression, founded in 1927. Originally the league was conceived as an organization of students and intellectuals; After only a few months, however, this restriction on the target group was dropped and the organizational structure was changed from “sections” within the West Berlin universities to local groups in cities or districts.

Its organ, the magazine Internationale Solidarität , dealt mostly with current issues within the “Maoist” left. One of the peculiarities of the league was a campaign policy in which certain topics were set as the focus of agitation. After the league was dissolved, a number of members of the Green Party organized themselves . Member was u. a. Antje Vollmer .

Among other things, the league dealt with post-Franco Spain, which it publicly discussed in various discussion groups and flyers , promoting and supporting the Spanish small group "FRAP". Her criticism was directed, among other things, to the SPD , as it expressed its solidarity with post-Francoism in Spain, in which many politicians from the Franco dictatorship still worked, and nevertheless described itself as "left". In connection with the campaign against the Franco dictatorship, the Paulskirche in Frankfurt am Main was occupied, which led to several lawsuits against those involved. There was also a pronounced aversion to US imperialism, which - according to the League - had artificially kept the Franco dictatorship alive in order to guarantee higher trade profits.

The Maoist League, like all related organizations of the 1970s, fought not only US imperialism and its representatives, but also Soviet social-imperialism . The League agitated against the imperialist policy of the USSR towards the countries of the Third World. She was one of the organizers of several large-scale demonstrations against the visit of the then head of state and party, Brezhnev, to Germany. B. in Dortmund with several thousand participants. Like the KPD / AO, the organization followed the requirements of Chinese foreign policy and the so-called three worlds theory of Mao Zedong .

The failure of the international Maoist movement and the decline of the revolutionary left also led to the dissolution of the League Against Imperialism in connection with the dissolution of the KPD in 1980. At that time, the league still had around 350 members.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Junge Welt, February 11, 2012 , »League of Nations of Brussels« 85 years ago, Nick Brauns founded the League against Imperialism
  2. ^ Statute of the League Against Imperialism, 1971
  3. ↑ Circular letters of the West Berlin regional committee of the League Against Imperialism, 1971-72
  4. ^ Invitation to the delegates' conference, January 1980 
 Scans der ZeitungInternationale Solidarität