Red student front

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The Red Student Front (RSF) Munich was founded on December 22, 1969.

This made it one of the earliest Marxist-Leninist student organizations that had nationwide importance for the left-wing radical student movement of the time. The RSF had around 300 members in the mid- 1970s .

Its forerunner was the Independent Student Community or Group (USG) Munich, whose origin, according to the RSF, was the Junge Union Munich, in which a new group became active in 1967, but its 20 most active members just under six months later resigned to form the USG.

Until May 1, 1970, when they demonstrated with the KPD / ML , the RSF supported both the workers' base groups (ABG) Munich and the KPD / ML through distribution activities.

After that she assigned herself to the Basic Workers' Groups for the Reconstruction of the KPD (ABG) and was soon their most important pillar, as they could only bind small student groups to themselves. This was the Interfrak of the Red Cells Munich, which later formed the Communist University Association (Marxist-Leninists) - KHB (ML) Munich.

Therefore, the KHB (ML) and RSF jointly published the 'Kommunistische Schüler- und Studentenzeitung' (KSZ), which was almost unique nationwide, as separate school and student newspapers were usually published. Who was the stronger force in this cooperation can be seen in the 'Münchner Schülerzeitung', which was published at the same time and was published by the action unit anti-imperialist students in Munich, i. H. the merger of the former grassroots groups. Most of these were renamed Democratic Initiatives (DI). Soon the RSF was only issuing the 'Rote Weg', which appeared at times in the Munich, Passau and Regensburg editions, with additional local supplements.

The RSF expanded not only to Regensburg , as on May 5th, 1971, but also to a number of other places:

Press reports about the RSF appeared several times, such as on August 8, 1972 in Münchner Merkur . Even Der Spiegel took notice and declared 1974 the success of the student union from the fact that this unequal left groups such as 'Red Student Front' and 'Red Guard' or organizations DKP stoked no ideological disputes.

In 1978, Der Spiegel reported again that the RSF was under observation by the Bavarian Office for the Protection of the Constitution. According to the Bavarian Constitutional Protection Report, the RSF and KHG were " among the most influential and active groups at Bavarian schools and universities " in the 1978 reporting period .

The RSF temporarily provided the Bavarian student representative, Uli Sedlaczek from Unterpfaffenhofen , the district student representative of the Upper Palatinate, Joachim Grytzyk from Regensburg, and Lower Bavaria, Alois Biebl from Waldkirchen , were allegedly close to it.

The Bavarian Office for the Protection of the Constitution first reported decreasing RSF activities in 1983, and none could be found in the following year. Around this time, the RSF of the Workers' Union for the Reconstruction of the KPD (AB) was transferred to the Bund Deutscher Pfadfinder in the Bund Democratic Youth - State Association of Bavaria (BDP / BDJ), which was described in the Bavarian Constitutional Protection Reports from 1978 as a youth organization influenced by the AB . Since the BDP / BDJ was forbidden to use the designation BDP in 1984 , it appeared for some time under the name of its magazine Kämpfende Jugend , from 1985 it called itself Initiative for the Union of Revolutionary Youth .

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  1. ↑ Roter Weg, Munich edition No. 9, Munich Dec. 1973, p. 13
  2. ↑ ABG: Report of accounts of the Central Committee of the Workers-Basis-Groups, adopted by the 3rd Ordinary General Assembly in June 1972, o. O. 1972, p. 17
  3. ↑ Communist Workers' Newspaper No. 100, Munich November 14, 1976
  4. ↑ RSF: The development of the Red Schoolchildren Front into a Marxist-Leninist mass organization of intellectuals in schools, in the service of the historical mission of the working class , Munich undated, p. 1 (preserved: 1970)
  5. ^ Dieter Portner: Bundeswehr and left-wing extremism ; Munich / Vienna: Günter Olzog Verlag 1976; P. 41 ISBN 3-7892-7114-4
  6. ↑ Roter Weg, Munich edition No. 4, Munich Feb. 1973, p. 4
  7. ↑ AB: 10 years answer to the question 'What to do?'. 10 years of the workers' union for the reconstruction of the KPD, Munich 1980, p. 24ff
  8. ↑ RSF: Internal Info No. 12, Munich January 26, 1971
  9. ↑ ABG: Report of accounts of the Central Committee of the Workers-Basis-Groups, adopted by the 3rd Ordinary General Assembly in June 1972, o. O. 1972, p. 98
  10. ↑ Free tuition . In: Der Spiegel . No. 12 , 1974, p. 34 ( Online - Mar. 18, 1974 ).
  11. ↑ Schiller in a vice . In: Der Spiegel . No. 31 , 1978, p. 74 ( online - 31 July 1978 ).
  12. ^ Constitutional Protection Report Bavaria 1978, p. 62 (similar to other annual reports)
  13. ↑ Münchner Schüler Zeitung No. 7, Munich Feb. 1972
  14. ↑ Roter Weg Extra, Munich, January 1973
  15. ↑ Verfassungsschutz Bayern 1983, p. 67; 1984, p. 73
  16. ↑ Constitutional Protection Report Bavaria 1978, pp. 108–9; 1979, p. 103; 1982, pp. 65–8 (on p. 67 illustration of the title of the magazine kämpfende jugend. For the structure of the BDJ , no. 4/82 5th year)
  17. ↑ Verfassungsschutz Bayern 1985, p. 80 and p. 204