Socialist workers group
The Socialist Workers' Group (SAG) was a German branch of the Socialist Workers Party founded in 1971 . The group gave u. a. the newspaper Klassenkampf out and concentrated for a long time on a few local groups, the most important of which was in Frankfurt am Main . The group was active in various Frankfurt movements in early times, for example in the fight against NPD marches with rock against right .
The central theory is Tony Cliff's state capitalism theory , which, in contrast to the theory of the “degenerate workers state” of other orthodox Trotskyist groups, assumes that the Soviet Union, after the failure of the international socialist revolution, entered into competition with other imperialist states as a state as a whole behaves like a large capitalist state enterprise.
While the group was limited to a few members and locations until the mid-1980s, it began to expand within West Germany at the beginning of the 1990s, and later also in East Germany, with up to 1000 members. At the end, groups were represented in Kiel , Hamburg , Hanover , Cologne , Frankfurt, Stuttgart and Munich , among others . In the course of the entry strategy at the Jusos (youth organization of the SPD), after an unsuccessful anti- fascist intervention, the group formed a network Linksruck from the end of 1993 , which is active as marx21 in the party Die Linke .
Part of the SAG did not go along with the entry strategy and founded the “ Internationalist Socialist Organization ” (ISO), which, however, operated largely unsuccessfully and fell apart. Members of the SAG were: Volkhard Mosler , Hajo and Stephanie Haenisch , Werner Halbauer , Frank Renken and Norbert Nelte . The member of the Bundestag Andrej Hunko belonged to the SAG from 1991 to 1995.
Publications: class struggle , socialist labor newspaper , socialism from below , books (including Tony Cliff's translation, State Capitalism in Russia ) and brochures.
Supraregional significance: Organization of SAG summer schools or later “Marxism” seminars with partly left-wing union speakers and audience, Antifa intervention 1992, Rock gegen Rechts 1978/79.
literature
- Constitutional Protection Reports , especially 1991 (published 1992), pp. 60–62; 1994, p. 61 (beginning of entry from the end of 1993); 1995, p. 76f ( Linksruck magazine ); 1996, p. 72 (“ Linksruck-Netzwerk ” controlled by SAG ), 77; 1997, p. 62 ( SAG 600 members); 1998, p. 126 ( Linksruck Netzwerk as a front organization of the SAG ); 1999, pp. 126-7; 2000, pp. 158-9