Spartakist Labor Party of Germany

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Demonstration of the SpAD in September 1990

The Spartakist Workers' Party of Germany (SpAD) is a Trotskyist organization that was founded in Berlin on January 21, 1990 . It is the German section of the International Communist League ( Fourth Internationalists ).

history

The predecessor organization of the SpAD was the Trotskyist League of Germany (TLD), which was founded in 1974 by former members of the Spartacus League . It was politically based on the Spartacist Tendency from the USA and published a magazine called Kommunistische Korrespondenz , which was renamed Spartakist in 1980 and is still published today as an organ of the SpAD. Its membership was around 50 in the mid-1980s, mainly in Frankfurt am Main .

After the turning point and peaceful revolution , the TLD called on December 3, 1989 for the establishment of "Spartakist groups" in the German Democratic Republic and began a daily leaflet called Spartakist - workers' correspondence with the slogan "The working people built the GDR - Workers' councils to power! For a red workers' Germany! ”. On December 18, 1989, the first Spartakist group was founded in Berlin. At an event in Berlin on January 21, 1990, the Spartakist Workers' Party of Germany was founded, which announced its candidacy “with a Leninist program” in the Volkskammer election on May 6 in some districts (Berlin, Halle, Leipzig and Rostock). The SpAD campaigned mainly against German reunification and “For a red councilor Germany!” And thus achieved 2,396 votes (0.02 percent). In the 1990 Bundestag election, the SpAD ran in the federal states of Berlin , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Saxony-Anhalt and Saxony with a total of seven applicants, 3 of them women, and received 1,610 second votes (0.0 percent).

In the early 1990s, the SpAD carried out solidarity campaigns for former SED politicians ( Erich Honecker , Erich Mielke and Markus Wolf ) and for Mumia Abu-Jamal . The actions were organized by the Committee for Social Defense (KfsV), the legal and social defense organization of the SpAD. The number of members of the SpAD was around 100 in the mid-1990s and fell significantly in later years. The regional focus of the SpAD shifted to Berlin and Hamburg. Candidates for elections did not take place after 1990, so that the organization no longer has the status of a party.

Party leader

Publications

  • Spartakist , No. 31.1980ff., Quarterly, from March 2008 bimonthly (at times with the sub-title Arbeiterpressekorrespondenz ) ISSN  0173-7430 ( digitized editions ).
  • Spartacist (German edition, theoretical and documentary source collection ) No. 1.1974 ff. (Initially published by the TLD ).

literature

  • Constitutional Protection Report 1982, p. 86 (Fig.), 87 ( TLD ); 1989, p. 59; 1990, p. 37 (renamed SpAD ); 1992, p. 56; 1994, p. 61; 1995, p. 77; 1996, p. 72; 1997, p. 63.
  • Peter Brandt , Rudolf Steinke: Group of International Marxists , in: R. Stöss: Party Handbook, pp. 1599–1647 (therein Trotskyist League of Germany, p. 1634).
  • Patrick Moreau , Jürgen P. Lang : Left-wing extremism : an underestimated danger, Bonn: Bouvier 1996 (p. 279 “International Spartacist Tendency”, p. 285 TLD, p. 288–89 SpAD Spartakist Workers' Party of Germany ) ISBN 3-416-02543- 1 .
  • Data handbook on the history of the German Bundestag 1949 to 1999, Baden-Baden: Nomos 1999, vol. I, p. 132 (Spartakist Workers' Party of Germany [SpAD]).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Spartakus lives, in: Die Tageszeitung (taz), January 27, 1990, p. 8.
  2. ↑ dpa / taz: saucepans, bagpipers, Gysi rockers. Election advertising in the GDR media / naive spots, boring presentations and western empty formulas, in: taz of March 14, 1990, p. 20.
  3. ↑ Reinhard Mohr: The cardigan as a weapon. Commercials of the parties for the federal election: The "Rama family" as an aesthetic ideal, in: taz of November 28, 1990, p. 20.
  4. ↑ Parliament No. 48 of November 23, 1990, p. 2 (average age of the SpAD candidates: 28.4 years) and p. 12 (number of applicants).
  5. ↑ Erich or Nichterich, in: taz , December 13, 1991 (Berlin local), p. 21; Claus Christian Malzahn: He's probably wearing a light coat, in: taz of July 31, 1992, p. 3.
  6. ↑ Wolfgang Gast: Markus Wolf in custody, in: taz of September 26, 1991, p. 4.
  7. ↑ The number of subscribers to the magazine is published regularly in the Spartakist exclusively for these cities .
  8. ↑ 1994 edition: 1000 copies (based on P. Moreau, JPLang: Linksextremismus, 1996, p. 288).