Elective alternative work and social justice

This article deals with the association founded in 2004. For the party that emerged from him in 2005, see Work & Social Justice - The Alternative Choice

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The association Wahlalternative Arbeit und Social Justice e. V. (WAsG e.V.) emerged from the two predecessor groups Initiative Work and Social Justice (in which mainly Bavarian trade union members are represented) and Elective Alternative (with a focus on northern and western Germany). These were formed as a reaction to the government policy that they criticized as neoliberal , in particular the package of measures called Agenda 2010 by the red-green coalition .

The first meeting of the Wahlalternative group took place on March 5, 2004 in the Berlin house of the German Federation of Trade Unions.

On October 17, 2004, the state association in North Rhine-Westphalia held its first state members' meeting, in which more than 400 of the total of 1,100 members in the state took part and elected a 15-member state board. The state members' meeting decided to run for the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia on May 22, 2005, despite unclear funding.

founding

Elective alternative work and social justice e. V. was founded on July 3, 2004. The first meeting took place on March 5, 2004 in the Berlin house of the German Federation of Trade Unions .

The association had 4,056 members on September 1, 2004, and around 6,000 in December 2004. A first regional association was launched on July 13, 2004 in Saarland . Another regional association followed in Hamburg on April 1, 2005.

After the party was founded

On 22 January 2005, the club ran the founding of the party Labor and Social Justice - The Electoral Alternative (WASG) at a congress in Göttingen. Club members had to join the party separately. The majority of the club's members left the club at the same time. Members who did not want to join the WASG party remained in the association.

The WASG party merged with the PDS in July 2007 to form Die Linke .

At the beginning of December 2007 it was announced that the WAsG association would continue to exist as a “Left Think Tank ” under the name of Wolfgang Abendroth Foundation Society.

According to the Management Board report of November 10, 2014, the number of members of the Wolfgang Abendroth Foundation has fallen to 276. In the course of 2015, a further general meeting will decide on the dissolution of the association.

Web links

• Wolfgang Abendroth Foundation Society

Individual evidence

1. ^ Left think tank, Junge Welt , December 10, 2007
2. ↑ Report of the Management Board (November 10, 2014) website of the Wolfgang-Abendroth-Stiftungsgesellschaft-WASG, accessed on September 26, 2016