Marxist-Leninist students
The Marxist-Leninist Students (or Marxist-Leninist Student Organization , MLS) were a communist student organization in Austria. Only in Salzburg was the corresponding organization called the Marxist Student Union (MSB).
The MLS were initially close to the KPÖ . On November 29, 1970, all reform communist members were expelled from the Association of Democratic Students (VDS) and the organization was renamed MLS. MLS later saw itself as " anti-revisionist ". On December 16, 1971, all KPÖ-affiliated activists were expelled from the MLS. In 1972 the Trotskyists were expelled and then founded the Revolutionary Marxist Group (GRM). Thereafter MLS remained Maoist- oriented, its members and the organizations were referred to as "Maoists" from outside.
Some of its members founded the Communist League of Vienna (KB Wien) at the end of 1972. "KB Graz, KB Linz, KB Tirol, KB Salzburg / Hallein, (...) and KB Klagenfurt" were also founded, which, according to the founding declaration, "dissolved" on August 6, 1976 into the Austrian Communist Federation (KBÖ). The resulting KB Austria received a statute and a program at the same time, the individual leagues became de facto local groups of the KBÖ.
Numerous members, candidates and sympathizers of the MLS and the KBÖ participated in the working groups that were formed in the sense of an "action unit" with other interested parties against the commissioning of the Zwentendorf nuclear power plant . They played a not insignificant role in the entire anti-nuclear movement in Austria. The platform Initiative Austria against nuclear power plants - financed by donations - essentially issued leaflets until the referendum on November 5, 1978, the information newspaper "Initiativ (...)" and the pale yellow A5 booklet "How is it really about nuclear power plants?" out that for 5 and later - got bigger - 10 Schilling donations were given to information stands. Demonstrations were organized, at the "information events of the federal government", which was not planned by the organizer, questions were asked and agitated from the audience.
Several students were active in the MLS who would later play a not insignificant role in the political and cultural life of Austria, such as Robert Schindel , Leander Kaiser , Konstantin Kaiser , Konrad Paul Liessmann , Andre Gingrich , Lojze Wieser and, by the way, Elfriede Jelinek .
Results of the elections for the ÖH representation
Central Committee of the ÖH (ZA) (Austria-wide representation):
- 1974 - 4.9%
- 1975 - 3.9%
- 1977 - 3.1%
Occasionally, candidates or supporters of the MLS / MSB were also elected - via personality selection - to the departmental representations at the individual universities.
literature
- The Marxist-Leninist Student Organization (MLS) : In: Wilhelm Svoboda : Sandbox games. A story of left radicalism in the 1970s . Promedia, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-85371-134-0 , pp. 29-39.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans Haas, Robert Hoffmann, Robert Kriechbaumer (eds.): Salzburg: urban living world (s) since 1945, böhlau Verlag, ISBN 3-205-99255-5 , p. 302.
- ↑ Communist - Theoretical Organ of the Austrian Communist League, Materials for the Analysis of Opposition (MAO), Dietmar Kesten, Gelsenkirchen, last change June 12, 2018, accessed February 10, 2019.