Red press correspondence
The Rote Presse Korrespondenz (RPK) was a weekly newspaper in Berlin (West) of the extra-parliamentary groups which, in contrast to Moscow-oriented groups, saw themselves as "anti-revisionist". In the course of its development, it mutated into the organ of the Maoist-oriented KSV ( Communist Student Association ). In the first issue (February 22, 1969) the RPK issued a founding declaration: Why new correspondence? It was directed against the Berliner Extra-Dienst , which was published by former Spiegel journalists Carl L. Guggomos and Walter Barthel and which pursued a moderate real socialist line. The two were previously active in the SDS and Republican Club co- founders, but were later exposed as MfS or double agents. Various organizations were still represented in the first editorial office: ad hoc groups at the universities, professional base groups in the Republican Club Berlin, company base groups, the International News and Research Institute (INFI), the Central Investigation Committee of the AStA FU and TU (justice campaign). It was only more than a year later that the spectrum narrowed to that of the Maoist KPD / AO .
In terms of content, the RPK editorial team criticized the Extra-Dienst, which considers the existing bourgeois parliamentary system to be reformable and disregards the importance of violence in the process of overcoming this very system, furthermore it denies the need to organize its opponents beyond the already existing organizations.
The Rote Presse Korrespondenz was created as a free and independent newspaper in the period 1968/69 after the Socialist German Student Union (SDS) formally dissolved and the remaining cadres gathered in various groups like in Frankfurt / M. in the "Red March faction" or there also in the " Republican Aid ". It was initially a protest newspaper of the extra-parliamentary opposition against authoritarian rule and neo-imperialist politics in the Third World. With No. 118 (June 4, 1971) it became the central organ of the Communist Students' Union , from No. 190/191 (December 1, 1972) press correspondence of the Maoist "KPD", from No. 1–2 / 1974 organ and from 11. November 1974 press service of the "KPD". The magazine was discontinued at No. 50 (November) 1975. As a sequel, the "Rote Fahne-Pressedienst" appeared from the end of 1975 to the beginning of 1977.