Popular front against reaction, fascism and war

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The Popular Front against Reaction, Fascism and War (short title; - full name first Popular Front against Reaction, Fascism and War, for freedom and democracy, prosperity and peace , then better known under the short form Popular Front, short name: VF ) was one of the KPD / ML Organization founded on October 6, 1979 in Dortmund for the 1980 federal election as a political party in the Federal Republic of Germany, which later devoted itself in particular to the topic of anti-fascism . At times the party had 600 members and in 1994 it was transformed into an association called the Working Group against Reaction, Fascism and War (Popular Front) .

“Stop Strauss!” Campaign

Campaign button from 1980

After focusing with the slogan "Stop Strauss' out election campaign , the result of 9319 was (no more than 0.02%) second vote be ignored.

Development after 1980

The party (after the election under the official name Popular Front against Reaction, Fascism and War ) developed in the next few years into an organization whose focus differed from the electoral level (apart from a few unsuccessful local election candidates - 76 votes in the Lower Saxony local elections in 1986 and the Participation in electoral alliances such as the Left Alternative - Fight yourselves! In the Hamburg citizenship elections in 1993) to the topics of anti-fascism , anti-racism and repression . On 26./27. In February 1983 the organization held a “Never again fascism! Never again war! ”Was the title of the congress, for which Heinrich Schirmbeck , Peter O. Chotjewitz , Ingeborg Drewitz and Karola Bloch could be won as callers.

In the second half of the 1980s , the Office for the Protection of the Constitution referred to the formally independent Popular Front as the apron organization of the Federation of West German Communists (BWK). In the mid-1990s, some of the remaining members of the Popular Front joined the VVN-BdA . The successor organization, Working Group against Reaction, Fascism and War - Förderverein Antifaschistische Nachrichten , acts as co-editor of the Antifaschist Nachrichten .

The Popular Front published the Volksecho from 1979 to 1992 , and in 1985 the publication of the fortnightly anti-fascist news began. In addition, the organization issued a number of publications focusing on the topics of anti-fascism and repression.

Membership numbers

  • 1980: 2000
  • 1984: 1300
  • 1985: 600

literature

  • Gerd Langguth : Protest movement, development, decline, renaissance. The New Left since 1968 . Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, Cologne 1984 (p. 76/77 Volksfront), ISBN 3-8046-8617-6 .
  • Constitutional Protection Reports : 1979 (1980), p. 95 (under KPD / ML ); 1980, pp. 93 and 95 (fig.), 97; 1981, p. 106; 1982, pp. 82, 84; 1983, pp. 84-85; 1984, p. 90; 1985, pp. 98, 100, 110; 1986, p. 105 (BWK calls for participation in the Popular Front); 1987, p. 55 (BWK), 68 (anti-fascist work); 1988, pp. 61, 78; 1989, pp. 57, 71; 1990, p. 34; 1991, p. 55 f .; 1992, pp. 49, 54; 1993, p. 59 f .; 1994, pp. 56, 60; 1995, p. 75 (“restricted activities”) . After that probably not anymore.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas Schulze: Small parties in Germany: Rise and fall of non-established political associations , p. 129