Left-Extremist Endeavours

SDAJ continues close
relations with the DKP
of March 1999, the DKP and "Yugoslav Communists" demanded,
inter alia, discontinuation of all combat operations 111) .
The DKP was also represented at an international meeting of 53
Communist and workers’ parties from 44 countries on the subject
of the development of "imperialism", which was held in Athens in
May at the initiative of the Greek Communist Party 112) .
In keeping with long-standing tradition, the DKP again sent delegations
or messages of greetings to party conventions and press
parties of several Communist Parties (inter alia, the CPs of Norway,
Lebanon, Italy, France and Portugal).
Close co-operation continued to be maintained by the DKP with
the "Sozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterjugend" (SDAJ - "Socialist
German Workers’ Youth"), the Party’s former "cadre reserve".
Thus, the DKP supported the project carried out by the SDAJ
and Communist youth associations from Greece, Portugal and
Cyprus for the construction of an outpatients’ clinic at Matanzas
University (Cuba). For this project, the SDAJ collected donations
and dispatched a number of construction brigades 113) .
In a "friendly" talk held in Düsseldorf in mid-May, to which the
DKP had invited functionaries of the DKP Executive Committee
and of the SDAJ National Executive Committee, the DKP promised
to co-operate with the SDAJ on a partnership basis "wherever
possibilities exist for such co-operation". SDAJ National
Chairman Michael GÖTZE declared that his organization had
stabilized; the average age of new members was 19 years.
Nationwide, SDAJ membership may be assumed to have stayed
at a level of about 300 114) .
The four SDAJ Whitsuntide camps - which in 1999 were again
organized on a decentralized basis - were attended by several
hundreds of young people and guests 115) .
1.2 "Marx-Engels-Stiftung e.V." (MES - "Marx-
Engels Foundation (reg’d)")
Founded: 1979
Headquarters: Wuppertal (North Rhine/Westphalia)
Members: about 35
Chairman: Richard KUMPF
The "Marx-Engels-Stiftung e.V." (MES - "Marx-Engels Foundation
(reg’d)") continued to deal with the "research on the scholarly
work of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels and its historical effectiveness".
Its "Promotional Association" had a membership of 610
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