Socialist Left (SoL)

Logo of the Socialist Left - SoL

The Socialist Left (abbreviated SoL ) was a Marxist-Leninist group. According to information from the Hamburg Office for the Protection of the Constitution, in 2010 she belonged as a small group to the 90-person left-wing extremist group Anti-Imperialist Resistance of the anti-imperialist camp.

history

The SoL was founded in April 2004 as a Marxist-Leninist youth organization. It emerged from the grouping youth resistance , a youth organization of the no longer existing popular resistance movement of the world . The aim was to recruit young people. The main unique selling point for this group in Hamburg was the integration of young people with a migration background. Since the beginning of 2011, based on its policy paper, the SoL is no longer a youth organization and has an offshoot in North Rhine-Westphalia.

One action by the group that caused worldwide resonance was the forcible prevention of the broadcasting of the film Why Israel by blocking a cinema in Hamburg-St. Pauli. The group's motivation was to “do something against anti-Germans ” out of political commitment . After the SoL had already shown the film on December 9th, the screening was rescheduled on December 13th, 2009 in the previously blocked cinema, this time under the supervision of a police presence.

In addition to networking in a nationwide left alliance, anti-fascist actions within the framework of the left-wing-dominated "Hamburg Alliance against the Right" and anti-militarist work, as well as participating in international conferences of the Communist Party of Peru and its front organization, People's Movement Peru, the SoL organized the so-called "Revolutionaries May 1st demonstrations ”. In 2010, following the demonstration by drunk youths with no apparent political objective, violent riots against police officers and the looting of shops and banks in Hamburg's Schanzenviertel . In 2011 something similar could only be prevented by a massive police presence. The autonomous scene stays away from these demonstrations and organizes its own demonstrations. In addition to dogmatic Turkish and Kurdish left-wing extremists, the participants are primarily non-political, adventure-oriented young people.

The theoretical orientation is, according to our own presentation, scientific socialism . Their goal is a socialist state that will develop into communism under certain conditions.

In 2014 there was a break between SoL and the youth group Rote Szene Hamburg (RSH) , which had been the most important alliance partner and co-organizer of the annual Revolutionary May Day Demonstration since it was founded in 2009 . In the summer of 2014, the RSH left the joint international center B5 due to political differences. During this phase, the publicly perceptible activities of SoL fell sharply. The split culminated in two simultaneous revolutionary May Day demonstrations in Hamburg in 2015.

The SoL has not appeared in public since 2016, it has ceased its internet presence.