Left youth Solid

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Basic data
Establishment date: May 20, 2007
Place of foundation: Berlin , Karl-Marx-Allee
in the cosmos
Federal
Spokespersons:

Anna Westner
Kathi Gebel
Franzi Lucke
Franziska Liebich
Benny Schwarz
Maximilian Schulz
Michael Neuhaus

Federal Treasurer: Konstantin Grafe
Federal Managing Director: Saskia Spahn and

Janis Walter

colleague

for finance:

Steffanie Schäfer
Employees for

Member support and

Association development:

Jacob Wagner
Dispatch staff /

Orders:

Robert Walter
Alignment: Democratic socialism
Eco-socialism
Communism
Antifascism
Basic democracy
Feminism
Members: 22,500 thereof 6500 active (as of September 2019)
Association structure: 16 regional associations
Website: linksjugend-solid.de

The Left Youth Solid (proper spelling left youth [ 'solid] ) is a political youth organization in Germany . Your self-positioning in terms of content is feminism , socialism , grassroots democracy and anti-fascism . It is close to the party Die Linke and is recognized by them as a youth organization.

The student association Die Linke.SDS is a federal working group of the Linksjugend Solid with special status.

Self-image

The left-wing youth Solid sees itself as anti-capitalist , socialist , anti-fascist , grassroots democracy and feminist . The term "[ 'solid]" in his own name emphasizes the alignment of the Youth League as " so zialistisch, li nk, d emokratisch".

The youth organization sees itself as a platform for radical social criticism and self-determined politics, which is supposed to bring together different left currents. She sees herself as part of emancipatory movements and seeks cooperation with like-minded political youth structures on an international level. In addition, the Left Youth Solid sees itself as a representation of the interests of left-wing youth in and with the Die Linke party.

The youth federation is committed to the establishment of a " libertarian , classless society " in which capitalism , racism and patriarchy have been overcome. Banks and corporations should ultimately be nationalized and placed under the control of employees. The economy should be steered according to a democratically legitimized "societal production plan". Nevertheless, in “critical solidarity” cooperation with the party Die Linke, fundamental reforms within the capitalist system should also be fought.

A possible government participation of the party Die Linke is rejected by the left youth Solid, as long as it cannot be understood as progress on the way to socialism. The parliamentary indeed should be used as a stage for the struggle for a more just world, real social change but would be focused outside parliament. The Left Youth Solid therefore relies primarily on "mass resistance, the self-organization of companies, schools and universities as well as conscious action by the organized majority of the population".

Due to the emergence of various youth associations and the pluralistic self-image of the left youth Solid as well as the party Die Linke, a broad spectrum of political opinions is represented in the youth association. This results in the existence of various currents, which are represented by the Israel Solidarity Working Group (BAK) Shalom , the more “Israel-critical” BAK Antimilitarism and Peace (AuF) or the BAK Revolutionary Left , which is close to Trotskyism .

history

On May 20, 2007 at the 9th Federal Delegate Conference (BDK) by ['solid] - the socialist youth , the youth association close to the PDS , the left-wing youth Solid was founded. Delegates from the WASG youth (e.g. Links! WASGeht Bayern ) and the Junge Linken.PDS Berlin-Brandenburg and Saxony also took part in this founding event. The party congress of the party Die Linke on June 16, 2007 recognized the Left Youth Solid as the party's youth organization. The student association Die Linke.SDS , founded on May 5, 2007, became part of Linksjugend Solid.

At the 1st Federal Congress (BuKo) of the Linksjugend Solid in Leipzig, the youth association's program was decided in April 2008.

There are strongly divergent standpoints on the Middle East conflict among left-wing youth. While in Munich in June 2013 the local Solid district association, together with Green Youth and other organizations, sharply criticized the local one-world house and accused it of being a "one-world-without-Israel house" and of denying the Israel's right to exist to offer a forum, anti-Israel banners and banners with the inscription "Israel Terrorist" and " Allegedly earlier victims - today themselves " were raised at a demonstration with more than 1000 participants on July 18, 2014 against the Operation Protective Edge, registered by the Left Youth Solid Ruhr Perpetrators ”as well as the picture of an Israeli flag with a swastika and the slogan“ child murderer Israel ”alluding to the ritual murder legend . The Berlin State Solidarity Association found that "the style of the call [to demonstrate] had to give anti-Semitic women from different directions the impression that they were among like-minded people". The Solid Federal Congress in 2015 passed a resolution “Against all anti-Semitism” and also classified such slogans as anti-Semitic .

Important campaigns of the left-wing youth Solid were directed against a number of summits (e.g. against the G8 summit in Heiligendamm in 2007 , the G7 summit at Schloss Elmau in 2015 or the G20 summit in Hamburg in 2017 ) and climate conferences (such as the UN climate conference in Copenhagen 2009 ). The left-wing youth Solid also took part in numerous " education strikes " and Blockupy actions . In 2009 the left-wing youth Solid initiated an anti-fascist "prick up against the right" campaign. In addition, the left-wing youth Solid took part in election campaigns of the party Die Linke. A number of members of the left-wing youth Solid moved into the state parliaments or the Bundestag (such as Victor Perli or Niema Movassat ) via the list of the party Die Linke .

As part of the soccer World Cup 2018, the Linksjugend called on their website for the “Knicken Germany” campaign, in which flags are to be “collected”, which also means the breaking off of German flags attached to vehicles.

organization

organs

The organs at the federal level are the Federal Congress (BuKo), the Federal Spokesperson Council (BSPR) and the State Council. These generally meet in public.

The federal congress is the highest decision-making body of the left youth ['solid]. It meets once a year "to discuss the political guidelines for the next year and to determine the direction of the association".

The Federal Spokesman's Council consists of 6 to 15 members with equal rights and a treasurer. It is re-elected every year and decides between the congresses. In particular, he is responsible for press and public relations work and the implementation of the resolutions of the Federal Congress. He maintains business operations and coordinates the work of the regional associations.

Working method

Within the federal association there are the federal working groups Feminism, No Borders, Shalom, Political Education, Crisis, Antimilitarism and Peace (AuF), Net Politics and Revolutionary Left.

At the state level, there are state working groups (LAK), state spokesperson councils (LSPR), in some states alternatively also state executive boards, state coordination councils or commissioner councils and commissions at the state level. Most of the work takes place in the basic groups (BG).

Members

Anyone between the ages of 14 and 35 can become a member. Members of the parent party Die Linke at the appropriate age automatically become passive members of the youth association.

With more than 10,000 members, the Linksjugend Solid sees itself as the "largest left-wing radical youth association in Germany". More than 6,000 of the members are active, so they have deliberately declared their entry in text form.

The promotion of the equality of the members is a basic principle of the association. In the case of elections to committees and organs within the youth association, at least fifty percent women must be guaranteed. In addition, women have the right to set up their own structures within the association and to hold women's plenaries (holding a meeting in which only women and people who see themselves as women participate), as well as to exercise a veto with suspensive effect.

Events

The left youth organizes camps and leisure time with political and emancipatory claims. Furthermore, content-related workshops, political role-plays and actions take place. The first camp Ya Basta! took place in Bielefeld in summer 2007. In 2008 the climate camp followed in Hamburg, which was co-designed by the Federal Climate Working Group of Left Youth and in which the association participated with its own barrio , in September 2008 the association took part in the 5th European Social Forum in Malmö (Sweden) with its own event.

criticism

anti-Semitism

In the beginning of the 2010s in particular, some youth associations, Left Youth Solid, caught the eye, in part with anti-Semitic slogans on the sidelines of demonstrations. The left-wing youth Solid Ruhr signed an appeal for a demonstration in Essen, which unilaterally blamed Israel for the bombings in the Gaza Strip. The Linksjugend NRW also took part in demonstrations critical of Israel in 2014, in which neo-Nazis marched and the Linksjugend received positive comments from the right via social media. After a pro-Gaza rally by around 2,000 people in Essen with the participation of the left-wing youth Solid Ruhr, which was peaceful, there was a confrontation with counter-demonstrators, at which around 200 pro-Gaza demonstrators took action against pro-Israel demonstrators. The federal working group “Shalom” has existed since 2007 and is intended to serve as a “platform against anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism, anti-Americanism and regressive anti-capitalism”. In 2015, the federal congress passed an appeal entitled Against any anti-Semitism that was supposed to counteract such incidents.

defense of Constitution

The Left Youth Solid demands, together with the Jusos and the Green Youth , the abolition of the Federal Office and the state authorities for the protection of the constitution . The reason was the classification of Endegebiet as a left-wing extremist movement by the Berlin Office for the Protection of the Constitution in May 2020 .

Left-wing youth is no longer monitored by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution at the federal level, but some state associations do. In the course of the observation of the party Die Linke by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution , it was mentioned in the Federal Constitutional Protection Reports in 2007 and 2008 and listed under “left-wing extremist efforts and suspected cases”. In the reports from 2010 and 2011, the youth association was mentioned in the area of ​​“left-wing extremism”, but has not been mentioned since 2012.

For the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Baden-Württemberg , the Bavarian State Office for the Protection of the Constitution and the Protection of the Constitution in North Rhine-Westphalia , the regional associations there, including the Socialist-Democratic Students ' Association in Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria , are left-wing extremist efforts.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. https://www.linksjugend-solid.de/2018/06/07/eine-soziale-transformation-muss-eine-oekologische-sein-oder-sie-wird-nicht-sein/
  3. https://www.linksjugend-solid.de/2017/05/12/gegen-die-regierungsbeteiligung-fuer-den-kommunismus/
  4. https://www.linksjugend-solid.de/2018/06/07/fuer-einen-emanzipatorischen-kommunismus/
  5. http://miriamstrunge.de/jugendverband/linksjugend-solid-bremen/
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  7. ^ Constitutional Protection Report 2008 ( Memento from June 12, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF) p. 147.
  8. a b [ Archived copy ( memento of March 6, 2019 in the Internet Archive ) Statute of the Linksjugend ['solid]] § 2.1, accessed on October 13, 2015.
  9. a b Program of the Left Youth ['solid] Sections 1 and 4.6, accessed on September 12, 2017.
  10. Decision of the Left Youth ['solid] accessed on September 12, 2017
  11. ^ Decision of the party Die Linke. In: die-linke.de , accessed on September 13, 2017.
  12. Martin Krauss : "Eine-Welt-Hass-Haus". Youth organizations accuse meeting places of anti-Semitism. In: Jüdische Allgemeine , June 20, 2013
  13. Matthias Meisner : Left surrounds itself with anti-Semites. In: Tagesspiegel , July 19, 2014.
  14. Lars Rensmann : How can that be? In: Die Welt , August 3, 2014, p. 18.
  15. What is secondary anti-Semitism? In: literaturkritik.de , August 3, 2014, p. 18.
  16. Displeasure because of police suspicion after Middle East demos in Essen. In: Der Westen.de , July 21, 2014.
  17. Hate demonstration triggers anti-Semitism dispute among leftists. In: Die Welt , July 30, 2014
  18. ^ Resolution "Against every anti-Semitism" of the Erfurt Federal Congress 2015. In: linksjugend-solid.de. Retrieved May 25, 2016 .
  19. https://www.linksjugend-solid.de/verband/verbandsgeschichte/ , accessed on September 13, 2017.
  20. "Germany kink" Left-wing youth calls for the cancellation of Germany flags. In: Kölner Stadtanzeiger , June 19, 2018
  21. a b structures. In: linksjugend-solid.de
  22. Federal working groups. In: linksjugend-solid.de
  23. Federal management of the party Die Linke (ed.): Federal statutes of the party Die Linke . Berlin 2014 ( die-linke.de [PDF]).
  24. 10 years left youth ['solid] Retrieved on November 10, 2017.
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  29. Reimar Paul: Anti-Semitism on Pro-Gaza Demos: "Nazi murderer Israel" . In: The daily newspaper: taz . July 20, 2014, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed October 14, 2019]).
  30. Eight arrests after peace demonstration against Gaza war in Essen. In: WAZ.de. July 19, 2014, accessed on October 14, 2019 (German).
  31. ^ Constitutional Protection Report of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia 2018 . Ministry of the Interior of North Rhine-Westphalia, Düsseldorf 2018, p. 53 ( polizei.nrw [PDF]).
  32. http://bak-shalom.de/. Retrieved July 8, 2020 (American English).
  33. 10 years "BAK Shalom" - A hot iron on the left. In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur . Retrieved on October 14, 2019 (German).
  34. Against all anti-Semitism. In: left youth ['solid]. Retrieved on October 14, 2019 (German).
  35. The mention of the end-area in the Berlin constitution protection report is wrong! Joint statement by Grüner Jugend, linksjugend ['solid] Solid and Jusos, on the mention of the climate activists in the Berlin Constitutional Protection Report. Jusos, May 2020, accessed on May 21, 2020 .
  36. Verfassungsschutz Berlin: Report 2019 (PDF; 4.6 MB) Senate Department for the Interior and Sport , May 2020, accessed on May 21, 2020 (p. 162 ff.).
  37. ^ Constitutional Protection Report 2007 ( Memento of January 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF) p. 156 f.
  38. ^ Constitutional Protection Report 2010 ( Memento of November 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 4.3 MB) pp. 160, 162, 165, 167 f.
  39. Constitutional Protection Report 2011 ( Memento of December 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 6.01 MB) p. 178/179.
  40. Constitutional Protection Report 2012 ( Memento from December 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 5.7 MB) Table of contents p. 8 ff.
  41. Ministry of the Interior, Digitization and Migration of the State of Baden-Württemberg (ed.): Verfassungsschutzbericht Baden-Württemberg 2017 . March 1, 2018, ISSN  0720-3381 , p. 227–229 ( Verfassungsschutz-bw.de ).
  42. Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior and for Integration (ed.): Verfassungsschutzbericht Bayern 2017 . Munich March 2018, p. 218 ( bayern.de [PDF]).
  43. Constitutional Protection North Rhine-Westphalia Constitution Protection Report of North Rhine-Westphalia over 2017 . Ed .: Ministry of the Interior of North Rhine-Westphalia. Düsseldorf July 2018 ( im.nrw [PDF]).