Left-Extremist Endeavours

AA/BO continues to be the
most powerful organizational
set-up
models within the autonomous camp.
While other attempts very soon ended in failure, the organization
which, until this day, has been the most influential one with the
greatest capacity to act is the "Antifaschistische Aktion/ Bundesweite
Organisation" (AA/BO - "Anti-Fascist Action/
Nationwide Organization") founded in Wuppertal in the summer
of 1992. At the end of 1999, its members were eleven groups
from nine towns/regions, inter alia the "Antifaschistische Aktion
Berlin" (AAB - "Anti-Fascist Action Berlin"), "Autonome Antifa
(M)" from Göttingen, the "Antifaschistische Gruppe Hamburg"
(AGH - "Anti-Fascist Group Hamburg") and the "Antifa
Bonn/Rhein-Sieg". Three other groups had observer status.
"Antifa-Offensive ’99" Also in 1999, the AA/BO carried out intensive programme, educational
and media activities; regular meetings of delegates were
held to co-ordinate and further develop common political concepts.
AA/BO groups, partly in a leadership role, participated in
numerous demonstrations which in instances also were violent.
Thus, in early 1999, the AA/BO had launched the campaign "Antifa
Offensive ’99 - Stop the advance of right-wingers!" with the
aim of promoting "anti-fascist organizational build-up" and of
planning and implementing regional and supra-regional actions
against neo-fascism which allegedly was assuming threatening
forms. The campaign was obviously also designed to counter the
reproach that the scene did not show any initiative and merely
responded to activities by "Faschos", and to reverse this trend.
AA/BO policies continued to be characterized by "youth work"
that reached into schools. To this end, it employed "Jung-Antifa"
("young anti-fascists") groups instructed by it and publications
under its influence 104) .
An emerging organization - existing side by side with the AA/BO,
but with a less rigid orientation, the "Bundesweite Antifa-Treffen"
(B.A.T. - "Nationwide Antifa Meetings") which was created in
1993 - strove, as in previous years, for continuity and greater
acceptance, but had a problem with its lacking capability to mobilize
supporters.
Fluid boundaries with
terrorist action
1.4 Autonomist Structures with Emerging
Terrorist Elements
Within the autonomous camp, terrorist components have been
active for years, which cross the line to terrorist violent action.
These small groups operate clandestinely, i.e. covertly, and pattern
their operations on the terrorist "Revolutionäre Zellen" (RZ -
"Revolutionary Cells"), i.e. from a basis of "legality" [instead of
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