Revolutionary struggle

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We want it all (1973).

The name Revolutionary Struggle (RK) was given to an informal political organization in Frankfurt am Main which emerged from the anti-authoritarian student movement in 1968 and which had previously called itself the “Company Project Group” (BPG Frankfurt). It was a group of socialist students who considered a "proletarian revolution" in Western Europe to be necessary and wanted to work towards it.

history

Following the example of some operaist groups from Italy (for example Potere operaio or Lotta Continua ), politically active company groups of students and workers in factories were to be formed in a first step. In doing so, it set itself apart from other directions and organizations in the succession of the student movement, such as the KPD / AO , which in their eyes pursued Lenin exegesis and Marx philology at their desk without any contact with the proletariat. They formed an operating group at the Opel plants in Rüsselsheim , where a series of leaflets and then a company newspaper were published, which, however, had no notable success there and largely disbanded after a few years. The RK expanded its political activities outside of the factories, a women's group was formed on feminist issues, and an “Opel collective” took care of operational work at Opel. From 1973, the RK worked instrumental in the national Sponti newspaper We Want Everything (WWA) with whose first major theme of the strike at the Hoesch AG of Dortmund from 8 to February 10, 1973 was, and then both the Frankfurt urban warfare and described many of the 'wildcat strikes' of the summer of 1973.

Known members

Well-known members of the Revolutionary Struggle were the later cabaret artist Matthias Beltz , who stayed with Opel for several years and made it to a shop steward, the founder of the Frankfurt variety theater Tigerpalast Johnny Klinke , the translator Eva Moldenhauer , the psychoanalyst and sexologist Reimut Reiche , the later Politicians Tom Koenigs , Daniel Cohn-Bendit and Joschka Fischer as well as the publicist Thomas Schmid .

See also

literature

  • Revolutionary struggle (BPG Frankfurt). 1. Investigation-Action-Organization 2. For the political assessment of wage disputes . Merve Verlag, International Marxist Discussion, Working Papers, No. 3, Berlin 1971
  • Comrades from the Opel collective of the RK: The Mafia knocks itself out In: Wir Wollen Alles 25/1975, p. 5 ff.
  • Autonomy: materials versus factory society . In: Arbeit 9/1977, pp. 3–35 with 3 articles on the RK

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jürgen Schröder: Opel Rüsselsheim: 'Revolutionär Kampf' - materials for analyzing opposition. March 3, 2013, accessed August 5, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Jürgen Schröder: 'We want everything' (1973-1975) - materials for analyzing opposition. July 13, 2017, accessed August 5, 2020 .
  3. ^ Jürgen Schröder: The wild strike at Hoesch Dortmund from February 8 to 10, 1973 - materials for analyzing the opposition. February 21, 2016, accessed August 5, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Thomas Zorn et al. a .: Friends: "Good wishes from 'Janie'". In: Focus from February 12, 2001, pp. 30–33