Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany

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Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany
Logo of the MLPD
Party leader Gabi Fechtner
founding July 20, 1982
Place of foundation Bochum
Headquarters Gelsenkirchen
Youth organization rebel
newspaper Red flag
Alignment Marxism-Leninism
Stalinism
Maoism
Communism
Bundestag seats no
Government grants no
Number of members 2800 (as of 2018)
Proportion of women 43%
International connections International Coordination of Revolutionary Parties and Organizations (ICOR), International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations (ICMLPO)
Website mlpd.de

The Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany ( MLPD ) is a left-wing radical German small party . It was founded on July 20, 1982. It emerged from the Communist Workers' Union of Germany (KABD), which existed from 1972 to 1982 .

The MLPD advocates a revolutionary socialization of the means of production . In theory and practice, the party is based on Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Vladimir Ilyich Lenin and Ernst Thälmann . In addition, the party refers to Josef Stalin's interpretations of Marxism and Leninism ( Stalinism ) and its extension by Mao Zedong , called Maoism . In contrast to almost all other communist-oriented groups in Germany, it also defends the political work of Josef Stalin and Mao Zedong. The declared aim of the party is the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat as a transition stage to a classless communist society. The MLPD is monitored by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution because it classifies its objectives as unconstitutional . It is classified by Helmut Müller-Enbergs as a political sect .

The party maintains children's and youth associations and a publisher. She is wealthy in relation to her size, her net worth is around 5.5 million euros.

In elections at the federal and state level, the MLPD did not receive any mandates and has been increasingly turning to local politics since the late 1990s .

Content profile

Election poster of the Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany (MLPD) with portraits of the Marxists and anti-militarists Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg for the 2009 Bundestag election in Worms

"Real Socialism"

According to the MLPD, the addition of “real” has a tactical meaning in order to “distance oneself from the various distortions of modern revisionism and reformism”, for example Trotskyism , which, according to the MLPD, is “a petty-bourgeois deviation from Marxism”. In this way, the party is deliberately contrasting with parties such as the DKP , Die Linke and the Socialist Equality Party . According to the representation of the party, principles are realized in real socialism, as they were developed, practiced and further developed above all in the Paris Commune , in the Soviet Union under Lenin and later Stalin, and in the People's Republic of China under Mao Zedong. These are particularly methods of realizing and defending the rule of the working class in alliance with all other working classes, above all through the former owners of capital : Comprehensive technical and political education for working people as well as support and promotion of their political commitment and their organization; In addition, officials can be elected, accountable and voted out of office, their salaries limited to average workers' wages, etc. In this context, the MLPD criticizes what it considers to be the revisionist development of the Soviet Union since the 20th Congress of the CPSU in 1956, on the dictatorship of the proletariat by the rule of a new class of bureaucrats under the leadership of Nikita Khrushchev had been replaced. This event was the result of violent class struggles in the Soviet Union, in which the upright Marxist-Leninists made serious mistakes, some of which were historical. According to the MLPD, the new ruling class justified its seizure of power with the pretended criticism of the alleged cult of personality around Stalin and the dissemination of an irrelevant and defamatory representation of his politics and his person. As a result, the scientific foundations of Marxism-Leninism were systematically falsified in order to deceive the working class and the popular masses and to enable a gradual restoration of capitalist conditions "under socialist guise", combined with the gradual dismantling of socialist achievements. The revisionists first introduced the general line of "peaceful coexistence with imperialism" and the theory of the "peaceful path to socialism". Until the XXII. At the 1961 party congress, the revisionist theory had been expanded into an all-round system, among other things with the theory of the “state of the whole people”. Critics and upright Marxist-Leninists were henceforth persecuted and suppressed. In this way, the new rulers in party, economic and state leadership would have expanded their economic privileges and consolidated their political supremacy. In the wake of the restoration of capitalism in the Soviet Union, capitalist conditions were also restored in other previously socialist countries, as the revisionist leaders of the CPSU had in some cases massively influenced the domestic politics of those countries. In this way these countries were brought into "neo-colonial dependence" on the USSR. Against the background of economic competitive pressure and the military threat posed by Western imperialism, these events were an expression of the development of the Soviet Union into an imperialist state ("social-imperialism") and the members of the Comecon and Warsaw Pact into a new imperialist bloc under Soviet leadership. Ultimately, the restoration of capitalism would have led to the complete disintegration and collapse of these formerly socialist countries. According to statements by the MLPD, Mao Zedong recognized this development early on and demonstrated that the danger that it would repeat itself in other socialist countries is a law. The main conclusion of Mao Zedong was the mobilization of a mass criticism movement against those functionaries who consciously or unconsciously represented revisionist views or pursued a revisionist policy. By organizing the Cultural RevolutionIn China, under Mao's leadership, it was possible to defend the dictatorship of the proletariat until, after his death in 1976, bureaucratic state capitalism was established there too. From these experiences the party draws the conclusion that “real socialism” can only be successfully fought for and built with a “proletarian way of thinking”.

On the occasion of Lenin's 150th birthday on April 22, 2020, the MLPD unveiled a 2.15 m high statue of Lenin in front of its party headquarters on June 20. The administrative court rejected the appeal of the city of Gelsenkirchen against the monument on March 5th and the higher administrative court confirmed this decision.

Environmental policy and ideas about the future of "real socialism"

The IX. The party congress in 2012 decided to raise environmental work to the second most important line of struggle. According to the MLPD, the earth is in an "accelerated and extended transition from the environmental crisis to a global environmental catastrophe" which threatens the foundations of human existence. Therefore, the “threatening destruction of the unity of man and nature” has become a “central question of the class struggle”. In order to continue to achieve maximum profits, the systematic destruction of the environment by capitalist production has become a general necessity. The party sees a way out in socialism and communism to be established by an international revolution, without which humanity would be doomed. In this context, it has drawn up an extensive catalog of environmental policy demands ("combat program") in which it calls, at the expense of profits, among other things, to stop the clearing of forests and reforestation, to replace fossil fuels with regenerative energies and to have healthy working and living conditions. The party calls for a change in the basic guidelines for production, thinking, working and living as well as scientific activity. Constant growth in production and profits, the orientation of the media, education, public opinion towards the profit economy and the systematic denial of the all-round “unity of nature and man” as well as mass consumption and resource consumption “regardless of losses” would have to be overcome. This “paradigm shift in society as a whole” is immediately necessary in order to “save the unity of man and nature”, but a radical change in the mode of production and consumption, the way of thinking and in the work process first requires a revolution in the balance of power. With the abolition of the commodity relationship, the future dictatorship of the proletariat could focus on the satisfaction of human needs in unity with nature. A constant "class struggle to change the way of thinking in socialist society" is a basic requirement.

"System of self-control"

The MLPD describes itself as a “ new type of party ” that emerged from criticism of the “betrayal of communist ideals”. The party claims to be organizing a “system of self-regulation” in order to prevent renewed betrayal by “petty-bourgeois degeneration” of the organization. This system consists of the self-control of the individual members, of the party base-based control over governing bodies as well as independent control over governing bodies by control commissions that have to protect the "development of criticism and self-criticism in the entire party". Ideological training therefore plays a central role in the structure of the MLPD. The training materials contain links to the practices represented in Stalinism, such as the emphasis on centralism and intra-party discipline as well as criticism and self-criticism .

history

influence

The party claims to have gained influence in large industrial plants. Members of the MLPD company groups were involved in various non-union strikes. Despite union incompatibility resolutions , for example by IG Metall , which declare simultaneous membership in the MLPD and the union to be inadmissible, MLPD members are often members of a union and sometimes exercise functions there. Because of this, there have already been expulsions from unions. Thus, Stefan Engel , the former chairman of the MLPD, excluded from the IG Metall. Engel's action against this was ultimately dismissed by the Federal Court of Justice (AZ: II ZR 255/89). Engel has been a member of the Ver.di union since then .

Alliance policy

The MLPD shows presence in social movements such as the peace movement or the movement against social cutbacks ( new social movements ). However, the MLPD isolates itself through its defense of Stalin .

The MLPD promotes and supports the establishment of non-partisan grassroots organizations. In this context, the party is repeatedly accused of running so-called "submarine organizations" and seldom appearing under their own name at demonstrations and rallies by the labor movement or other social movements, which is justified by the surveillance by the constitution protection .

The MLPD took part in the protests against Agenda 2010 and the Hartz concept in 2004 and recorded increasing membership numbers. Appearances at demonstrations that were organized by the MLPD or groups dominated by it were criticized by other Hartz IV opponents as anti-alliance and arrogant towards the other extra-parliamentary left. The party rejected this criticism.

The MLPD participated in the internationalist alliance for the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia in 2017 and for the federal election in 2017 . The Office for the Protection of the Constitution wrote in its 2016 report: “The MLPD is entering into both the North Rhine-Westphalian state elections and the federal election in 2017 with an“ Internationalist List / MLPD ”, also known as the“ internationalist alliance ”.” This alliance included the MLPD among others the MLPD youth association Rebell , the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), classified by the EU as a terrorist organization , the Confederation for Democratic Rights in Europe (ADHF) and the Komalah .

Since the right to vote does not allow for list associations, the MLPD formally entered under the name Internationalist List / Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany and opened its lists to the members of the alliance. There was criticism and a. the Jewish General and the Israeli press.

Later the MLPD denied the alliance with the PFLP and threatened legal action against Volker Beck (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen, chairman of the German-Israeli parliamentary group), Charlotte Knobloch (former chairwoman of the Central Council of Jews), the newspaper " Jüdische Allgemeine ", the blog " Ruhrbarone ", the " Berliner Morgenpost ", Frauke Petry (then AfD) and Georg Pazderski (AfD). You should refrain from allegedly untrue statements, such as the claim that the Internationalist List / MLPD is running for the elections and the PFLP is the supporting organization of the alliance. The PFLP also denied the electoral alliance, although according to press reports this should be supported by screenshots , among other things . Members of the MLPD themselves also claimed: “Internationalist list / MLPD is a candidate for the state and federal elections”. Fechner himself had previously declared the PFLP to be the core of the alliance in an interview with its party organ. She lost the lawsuits against Volker Beck and the Central Council of Jews , which she wanted to have banned from claiming that she was part of an electoral alliance with the terrorist organization PFLP , before the Hamburg Regional Court .

Participation in elections

European elections

In the 2014 election to the European Parliament , it achieved 0.1% (18,198 votes). The party ran for the European elections on May 26, 2019 and received 0.0% of the vote (18,340 votes).

Elections at federal and state level

The MLPD never received mandates in elections at federal and state level. In 1983 the party called for a boycott of the federal election. The appeal had no consequences, and the party then achieved results in the alcohol range. In 1998 the party entered four federal states with state lists and achieved less than 0.05%. In 2002 the MLPD did not stand as a candidate and instead called for an active election boycott . The MLPD stood in the early federal election in 2005 and received 45,116 second votes (0.1 percent).

In the state elections in Saxony-Anhalt in 2006 , she was able to achieve her best election result to date with 0.4 percent (4051 votes). In the 2009 Bundestag elections , the MLPD took part in all 16 federal states with their own state lists and received 29,551 second votes (0.1%) and 17,552 first votes (0.05%). In the state elections in Saxony-Anhalt in 2011 , it received 0.2% of the vote. In the 2013 federal election , the MLPD ran in all 16 federal states and received 12,904 first votes and 24,219 second votes (0.1%). In the 2017 Bundestag election it received 35,760 first votes (0.1%) and 29,785 second votes (0.1%). The Thuringian state elections in 2019 resulted in 0.2% of the first and 0.3% of the second votes for the MLPD.

Local politics

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Since the late 1990s, the MLPD has increasingly turned to local politics .

Mostly the MLPD works on and between local elections in so-called “non-partisan personal electoral alliances”, often under the designation “Alternative - Independent - Progressive” (AUF). So put ON Gelsenkirchen 1999-2009 two members of the City Council, including Monika Gärtner-Engel, wife of party leader, since 2009 only one. In 2001 as in 2006, AUF Kassel also made it into the city council; In 2011 he no longer succeeded. In June 2004 electoral alliances that were supported by the MLPD succeeded in entering the city councils of Eisenach (2 seats), Albstadt and Esslingen am Neckar . In the local elections in North Rhine-Westphalia in September 2004 , these electoral alliances received 14 mandates in nine municipalities, including Gelsenkirchen in the independent cities of Mülheim an der Ruhr and Solingen two seats each and one seat each in Essen and Leverkusen MLPD represented as a party in the city council of Wolfen with a city councilor. In the local elections in April 2007, she was able to hold her parliamentary representation in Bitterfeld-Wolfen .

In the local elections in 2009, the MLPD-affiliated lists in Baden-Württemberg and Thuringia lost half and in North Rhine-Westphalia around a third of their previous mandates. In the 2014 local elections, the lists close to the MLPD were able to keep their total number of seats. The list FOR Esslingen succeeded in returning to the municipal council after five years, but Essen lost its seat on the council. The MLPD no longer competed in Bitterfeld-Wolfen.

Local political representation of the alliances with MLPD participation

city Year of choice Seats percent Election designation
Albstadt 2014 1 seat 4.1% future-oriented independent together (ZUG)
Bergkamen 2014 2 seats 4.2% Uphill Bergkamen
Eisenach 2014 1 seat 3.7% Eisenach departure
Esslingen am Neckar 2014 1 seat 2.5% Progressive - non-partisan - Rege (FOR)
Gelsenkirchen 2014 1 seat 1.4% Alternative - Independent - Progressive (OPEN)
Neukirchen-Vluyn 2014 3 seats 7.5% Neukirchen-Vluyn OPEN
Solingen 2014 1 seat 1.4% Solingen active
Witten 2014 1 seat 1.2% Alternative - Independent - Progressive (OPEN)

Party structure

Since its founding in 1982, the party chairman has been Stefan Engel, who was replaced by Gabi Fechtner (née Gärtner) on April 1, 2017 by resolution of the 10th party congress. She is the daughter of Monika Gärtner-Engel. The highest body of the organization is the party congress, between the party congresses the decision-making authority lies with the central committee (ZK) of the party. Stefan Engel, Monika Gärtner-Engel and 14 other party members are known to be members of the Central Committee.

The party is divided into bases, basic units (party groups), local and district associations and regional associations. According to their own statements, the MLPD and its youth association Rebell are represented in over 450 locations in Germany. The majority of the members are blue-collar workers, but there are also self-employed among them. The proportion of women in the MLPD is 43 percent. In addition to company groups, which should be set up with priority, there are also residential area groups. According to the party, university groups and environmental groups are also being set up.

National associations of the MLPD
Baden-Württemberg
Bavaria
Elbe-Saale (Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia)
North-East (Berlin, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
North-West (Bremen, Hamburg, Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein)
North Rhine-Westphalia
Rhineland-Palatinate, Hesse, Saarland

With 2300 members - estimated by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution - the MLPD is the second largest communist party in Germany after the DKP .

Subsidiary organizations

The party's youth organization is called the Rebell Youth Association . The children's organization Rotfüchse is affiliated with the rebel .

Associated with the MLPD

  • the Willi Dickhut Foundation e. V. with the Willi Dickhut Museum
  • the Society for the Promotion of Scientific Studies on the Labor Movement e. V. (GSA)

Various cultural groups are associated with the MLPD, the Ruhr Choir and the Nümmes music group in Berlin, as well as the Stuttgart hip-hop group Rebell Rhymes .

With the election alliance AUF, which works at the local level in some cities, the MLPD tries to bring its representatives into local political structures. Despite the dominance of the MLPD, AUF is also portrayed as independent by the party.

The nationwide Monday demonstration movement that emerged from the Monday demonstrations against social cuts in 2004 and held small weekly rallies in some large cities has also been regarded as a preliminary organization of the MLPD since at least 2005 .

According to the North Rhine-Westphalian Constitutional Protection Report 2011, the women's association Courage is also dominated by the MLPD. The party portrays the women's association as independent. The influence of the MLPD is expressed through personal parallels and the fact that the insignificant association is repeatedly discussed in the party's media, while it is actually ignored in other media. In the 2018 report for the protection of the constitution in North Rhine-Westphalia, the women's association Courage was no longer listed by name.

The media group Neuer Weg is intertwined with the MLPD and publishes the party newspaper and all literature from the party. The publisher's contractual partner is the people to people sales chain , which has an online shop that sells books by the party chairman among other things.

Institutions and party assets

Own presentation of assets

According to its own statements, the MLPD finances itself exclusively through membership fees and donations. According to the officials' magazine Lern und Kampf , the "trust assets of the MLPD from the [...] party congress in December 1999 in the amount of 8.5 million [...] to 12.1 million euros" should have grown by 2004.

The party's assets are mainly invested in real estate and businesses:

  • the holiday and leisure center in Truckenthal in the Sonneberg district
  • the building Koststrasse 8 in Gelsenkirchen (tenant: Arbeiterbildungszentrum ABZ)
  • the Horster Mitte building (former savings bank building) as the headquarters of the Central Committee and the rebel association leadership in Gelsenkirchen
  • the building of the MLPD district leadership in Berlin
  • the building of the MLPD district leadership in Stuttgart
  • the media group Neuer Weg GmbH in Gelsenkirchen and Berlin with printing , publishing , internet services and advertising agency

The party's assets are managed by the Vermögensverwaltungsverein Koststraße 8 e. V. (chairman of the association Stefan Engel) in Gelsenkirchen. In August 2013, he stated that the party had assets of 16 million euros.

Account termination by Deutsche Bank and Postbank

In November 2009, Deutsche Bank attempted to close six of the party's accounts, but relented in court.

On November 28, 2017, the party's accounts at Deutsche Bank and Postbank were terminated. The party appealed against this.

Information to the Bundestag administration

The party is not entitled to funds from state party funding . The annual report for 2003 is listed in Bundestag printed paper 16/1252. Accordingly, the party received around 2.4 million euros this year, including:

  • Membership fees 32%
  • Donate 20%
  • Income from wealth 32%

The party is comparatively wealthy for its size, its net worth is around 5.5 million euros. In addition to bank loans (5 million euros) and loans from private individuals (3 million euros), the party has other liabilities of around 730,000 euros. It closed the year 2003 with a surplus of 260,000 euros, in the previous year it was 83,000 euros. According to its own information, the party received seven major donations over 10,000 euros during this period. This contrasts with house and land assets of 11.5 million euros. The assets of the youth association Rebell are not listed in the party assets.

From 2005 to 2007, major donations from a single person totaled 2.5 million euros. In December 2011 the party received individual donations of 100,000 and 113,969.15 euros. In October 2012 the MLPD received a single donation of 115,000 euros from a married couple in Wilhelmshaven, and in July 2013 the party received an individual donation of 110,000 euros. In October 2015, a man from Oberhausen donated 252,400 euros, the largest single donation to a party in 2015.

Corporate investments

The MLPD holds 96 percent of the accounting office Essener Str. 86 GmbH in Gelsenkirchen. The party is not officially involved in other companies, and it does not break down its real estate holdings in the statement of accounts. The party was credited with building services in five figures by Im Waldgrund GmbH & Co. KG, which belongs to the property association .

Party press

Logo of the Red Flag of the MLPD
  • Rote Fahne Magazin , bi-weekly central organ, editor-in-chief: Jörg Weidemann
  • Learning and fighting , internal publication
  • Revolutionary way , theoretical series
  • Galileo - contentious science , newspaper of the university groups of the MLPD
  • Rebell , magazine of the youth organization of the same name

These publications appear in the party publisher Neuer Weg .

  • Small newspapers of the MLPD, especially in large cities, as published locally by the Gelsenkirchen district management.

Observation by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution

The MLPD is regularly monitored on suspicion of anti-constitutional actions by federal and state agencies for the protection of the constitution . According to the knowledge gained in this way, the MLPD tried, for example, to use the protests and initiatives against the Hartz IV legislation to spread anti- constitutional ideas. In 2010 it was classified by the North Rhine-Westphalian State Ministry of the Interior as a “politically barely perceptible splinter group”, which is largely isolated even within the left-wing extremist spectrum due to “its ideological formulaic nature” and a “ sect-like character”.

Cult accusation

Armin Pfahl-Traughber sees the MLPD as a political " sect ":

“From a balance sheet point of view, the MLPD is a political sect. Added to this is the high degree of ideological dogmatism, the exclusive claim to 'true socialism' and the strong degree of social integration. […] In connection with the social and political isolation, the mentioned aspects resemble the characteristics of a religious sect. This term can therefore be easily transferred to the MLPD as a type term. "

- Armin Pfahl-Traughber / Federal Agency for Civic Education : The "Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany" (MLPD)

A sect-like character of the party is also noted by Helmut Müller-Enbergs , who describes the MLPD as a "Stalinist sect", and Rudolf van Hüllen . According to van Hüllens, the MLPD knows “enormously repressive structures which aim to subject the members completely to their control” and “to establish the party milieu as the center of life”.

In July 2012, Stefan Engel and the MLPD sued the Essen regional court against the Ferdinand Schöningh publishing house and against the authors Harald Bergsdorf and Rudolf van Hüllen. The injunction was directed against allegations in their book Left Extremist - Germany's Underestimated Danger? The Essen District Court largely dismissed the lawsuit on April 11, 2013: Two statements should be omitted as unproven factual assertions. All other statements, namely that the MLPD is a sect dressed in the form of a party, that Maoist brainwashing is carried out, that submission to the party's claim to leadership is required and that intellectuals are rather unwelcome in this party, were judged by the court as admissible and dated Basic law protected expressions of opinion . The MLPD therefore bore 51.4% and Engel 32.4% of the process costs. After this verdict , the publisher took the book off the market.

International connections

According to its own statement, the party maintains relationships with "more than 700 parties, initiatives, people and organizations" worldwide. The party shows solidarity with groups such as the Peruvian terrorist organization Shining Path or the Communist Party of the Philippines . The MLPD continued to show solidarity with the CPP after the EU classified it as a terrorist organization. In 2001 the International League for Peoples' Struggle was founded in Utrecht ; the MLPD takes on observer status.

Flag of the ICOR

The MLPD, together with almost 50 other parties and organizations from more than 30 countries, is a member of the International Coordination of Revolutionary Parties and Organizations (ICOR, German: International Coordination of Revolutionary Parties and Organizations ), which took place on October 6, 2010 on the initiative of the MLPD in Berlin Founded. Stefan Engel was elected the main coordinator of the ICOR. Since the beginning of 2016, Engel has been gradually replaced by Monika Gärtner-Engel in his role as main coordinator for health reasons .

In 2015, ICOR organized helpers to help rebuild the city ​​of Kobanê in the Kurdish part of Syria, which was largely destroyed by the terrorist organization Islamic State . From June to October 2015, around 140 people were supposed to take part in the construction of a health center, the number of helpers was increased to 177 from ten countries. The reconstruction of Kobanês, including the construction of the health center, is being severely hindered. Turkey has closed the border to Syria, which makes the supply of helpers and building materials much more difficult, and Turkey is said to have prevented the delivery of eight tons of tools to Kobanê. There was physical abuse of international reconstruction workers by Turkish border troops. International construction workers are said to have been prevented from entering Syria across the Iraqi border for weeks. The center, which has several medical treatment and examination rooms as well as rooms for educational work and political support for the population, was opened on November 20, 2015.

ICOR member organizations
continent country Own name or English name German translation Known as a member since
Africa
Egypt Revolutionary Communist Party of Egypt , RCP Revolutionary Communist Party of Egypt 2016
DR Congo Organization of the Révolutionnaire du Congo , ORC Revolutionary Organization of the Congo 2010
Morocco Moroccan Marxist-Leninist Proletarian Line , MMLPL Moroccan Marxists-Leninists Proletarian Line 2010
South Africa Communist Party of South Africa (Marxist-Leninist) , CPSA (ML) Communist Party of South Africa (Marxist-Leninists) 2010
Togo Parti Communiste du Togo , PCT Communist Party of Togo 2016
Tunisia Parti Patriotique Démocratique Socialiste , PPDS Tunisia Patriotic Democratic Socialist Party of Tunisia 2016
Asia
Afghanistan Marxist-Leninist Organization of Afghanistan , MLOA Marxist-Leninist Organization of Afghanistan 2010
Bangladesh Communist Party of Bangladesh , CPB Communist Party of Bangladesh 2010
India Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) , CPI (ML) Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninists) 2010
Provisional Central Committee Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) , PCC CPI (ML) Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninists) Provisional Central Committee 2010
Indonesia Indonesia Revolutionary , INDOREV Revolutionary Indonesia 2010
Iran Hezb-e Ranjbaran Iran , Ranjbaran Party of Working People of Iran, Ranjbaran 2010
Nepal Communist Party of Nepal (Unified) , CPN (Unified) Communist Party of Nepal (United) 2013
Nepal Communist Party (Mashal) , NCP (Mashal) Nepalese Communist Party (Mashal) 2010
Pakistan All Pakistan Trade Union Federation , APTUF All-Pakistani Trade Union Federation 2010
Working Women Organization , WWO Organization of working women 2010
Sri Lanka New-Democratic Marxist-Leninist Party , NDMLP New Democratic Marxist-Leninist Party 2015
Europe Bulgaria Dvizhnye sa syprotiva “23 September” , 23 Септември Resistance movement "23. September" 2010
Balgarska Komunisticeska Partija , BKP Bulgarian Communist Party 2012
Balgarska Rabotniceska Partija (komunisty) , BRP (k) Bulgarian Workers' Party (Communists) 2010
Germany Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany, MLPD 2010
Greece Kommounistikí Orgánosi Elládas , KOE Communist Organization of Greece 2010
Luxembourg Communist Organization of Luxembourg , KOL 2010
Netherlands Rode Morgen , RM Red morning 2010
Russia Marksistsko-Leninskaya Platforma , MLP Marxist-Leninist platform 2010
Rossiyskaya Maoistskaya Partija , RMP Russian Maoist Party 2012
Switzerland Marxist-Leninist Group Switzerland , MLGS 2010
Serbia Partija rada , PR Party of labor 2010
Slovakia VZDOR - strana práce , VZDOR RESISTANCE - Labor Party 2010
Spain Partido Marxista-Leninista (Reconstrucción Comunista) , PML (RC) Marxist-Leninist Party (Communist Reconstruction) 2013/2015
Czech Republic Komunistická Strana Československa - Československá Strana Práce , KSC-CSSP Communist Party of Czechoslovakia - Czechoslovak Workers' Party 2010
Svaz Mladých Komunistů Československa , SMKC Union of Young Communists of Czechoslovakia 2010
Turkey Bolşevik Parti (Kuzey Kürdistan-Türkiye) , BP (KK-T) Bolshevik Party of Northern Kurdistan / Turkey 2010
Marksist Leninist Komünist Parti Türkiye / Kuzey Kürdistan, MLKP Marxist-Leninist Communist Party Turkey / Northern Kurdistan 2010
Türkiye İhtilalci Komünistler Birliği , TİKB Union of Revolutionary Communists of Turkey 2010
Ukraine Coordinate Jonnyj Soviet Rabotschewo Dwischenija, Ukraina , KSRD Labor Movement Coordinating Council, Ukraine 2010
Hungary Magyar Ifjúság Közösségi Szervezete , MIKSZ Organization of the Hungarian Youth Community 2014
Belarus Group of Kommunistov-Revolyutsjonerow "Krasnyj Klin" Revolutionary Communist Group "Red Wedge" 2010
Latin America Bolivia Partido Comunista (Marxista-Leninista-Maoísta) de Bolivia , PC (MLM) Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist-Maoist) of Bolivia 2010
Chile Partido Comunista Chileno (Acción Proletaria) , PC (AP) Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action) 2010
Dominican Republic Partido Comunista (Marxista Leninista) , PC (ML) Communist Party (Marxist-Leninists) 2010
Haiti Nouveau Parti Communiste Haïtien (Marxiste-Léniniste) , NPCH (ML) New Communist Party of Haiti (Marxist-Leninist) 2010
Colombia Partido Comunista de Colombia - Maoista , PCC-M Colombian Communist Party - Maoist 2011
Panama Partido Comunista (Marxista-Leninista) de Panamá , PC / ML Communist Party (Marxist-Leninists) of Panama 2010
Paraguay Partido Comunista Paraguayo (independiente) , PCP (independiente) Communist Party of Paraguay (independent) 2010
Peru Partido Marxista Leninista del Perú , PML del Perú Marxist-Leninist Party of Peru 2010
Partido Proletario del Perú , PPP Proletarian Party of Peru 2010
Venezuela Campaña Admirable del Poder Popular , CAdPP Admirable campaign of popular power 2014
North America United States Revolutionary Organization of Labor , ROL Revolutionary organization of work 2010

Literature and media

Web links

Commons : Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Federal Ministry of the Interior: Constitutional Protection Report 2018 , p. 150
  2. ^ Karl Marx on the website of the MLPD
  3. ^ Friedrich Engels on the MLPD website
  4. ↑ Lenin on the MLPD website
  5. ↑ Ernst Thälmann on the MLPD website
  6. ^ Josef Stalin on the website of the MLPD
  7. ↑ Mao Zedong on the MLPD website
  8. ↑ Protection of the Constitution NRW
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