Revolutionary Socialist League / Fourth International
| Revolutionary Socialist League / IV. International | |
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| founding | 1994 |
| resolution | 2016 |
| Headquarters | Mannheim |
| newspaper | Avanti |
| Number of members | 76 (as of December 31, 2013) |
| Website | www.rsb4.de |
The Revolutionary Socialist Bund / Fourth International (short name: RSB) was a small communist party oriented towards Trotskyism . Together with its “sister organization”, it was the international socialist left, the German section of the Fourth International (Executive Office) . In December 2016, the two organizations merged to form the International Socialist Organization (ISO).
Content profile
According to its self-portrayal, the RSB considered "fundamental problems of the world - war, environmental destruction, unemployment, poverty and hunger - to be insoluble within the framework of the capitalist social and economic order" and therefore strived for a "self-governing socialist democracy" that would "prevent the exploitation of the People through people "should end.
That practically meant u. a. Participation in demonstrations against the wars in Yugoslavia , Afghanistan and Iraq , activities in defense of Mumia Abu-Jamal and participation in protests against social cuts such as the Monday demonstrations against social cuts from 2004 . The RSB came up with the slogan “unity instead of division”.
The RSB saw the SPD as a "bourgeois party" and therefore rejected it - unlike z. B. his predecessor organization GIM - from calling directly or indirectly to the election of the SPD. Instead, he advocated “building a new socialist workers' party” that “could only arise in the struggles of the working class”. Unlike its “sister organization”, the international socialist left , the RSB did not support the establishment of the electoral alternative work and social justice and rejected the party Die Linke .
The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution classified and observed the RSB as left-wing extremist in 2006 , but was no longer mentioned in 2007. In the 2008 report on the protection of the constitution by the state of Brandenburg, he is classified as left-wing extremist.
Together with the group international socialist left (ISL), the RSB formed the German part of the United Secretariat of the Fourth International. There the RSB belonged to the left wing, which vehemently rejected the government participation of the majority of the former Brazilian section and spoke out against regrouping processes. Since 2014, the RSB has also been in a merger process with isl, which led to the unification of the German sections of this Fourth International.
history
The party was founded in November 1994. The seat was Mannheim , the RSB had according to its own information over 24 local groups, mainly in larger cities and in 11 of 16 federal states in Germany. In Jena and Wuppertal there was also a university group associated with the RSB.
The activities of the RSB were mainly in the extra-parliamentary area, for example political and trade union work in companies and political campaigns in public, for which v. a. the monthly newspaper Avanti and several company newspapers were used. The group also focused on the ecology movement.
The RSB was registered with the Federal Returning Officer as a party under the Political Parties Act of the Federal Republic of Germany. In the state elections in Baden-Württemberg in 2001 , the RSB put up a direct candidate in Mannheim , as did in 2006 . In the state elections in 2011 , the RSB ran in both Mannheim constituencies. 104 voters gave him their vote.
predecessor
The RSB was one of the two organizations that emerged from the stream of members of the Fourth International in the United Socialist Party (VSP) and thus followed the tradition of the International Marxists (GIM) (1969-1986), the International Communists of Germany (IKD) (1933–1951) and the Left Opposition of the KPD (Bolshevik-Leninists) (1929–1933). The RSB was part of the Trotskyist direction.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ German Bundestag: Accountability report of the party (PDF; 16.9 MB)
- ^ Office for the Protection of the Constitution 2007 ( Memento from September 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Constitutional Protection Reports of the State of Brandenburg for 2008 ( Memento from April 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 6 MB), p. 127
- ↑ Report of the RSB on the merger process (accessed on June 13, 2016)
- ↑ Baden-Württemberg Ministry of the Interior: Proposal for the state elections 2006 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (P. 2)
