Left-Extremist Endeavours
Left-Extremist Endeavours
Left-Extremist Endeavours
You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles
YUMPU automatically turns print PDFs into web optimized ePapers that Google loves.
116) - mostly scientific cadres of the "Deutsche Kommunistische<br />
Partei" (DKP - "German Communist Party") and the "Partei des<br />
Demokratischen Sozialismus" (PDS - "Party of Democratic<br />
Socialism").<br />
Together with the "Marxistischer Arbeitskreis zur Geschichte der<br />
deutschen Arbeiterbewegung bei der Historischen Kommission<br />
der PDS" ("Marxist Working Panel for the History of the German<br />
Labour Movement, of the Historic Commission of the PDS") and<br />
the "Geschichtskommission der DKP" ("History Commission of<br />
the DKP"), MES organized two conferences in Berlin on the<br />
subjects of the "50 th Anniversary of the Foundation of the FRG<br />
and of the GDR" (27/28 February) and "After the End of the Two-<br />
States Era - Where is Germany going?" (18/19 September).<br />
Other discussion forums organized at the MES headquarters<br />
dealt with "Ecology and Marxism" (26 June, organized jointly with<br />
the group of editors of the DKP’s theoretical organ "Marxistische<br />
Blätter") and with "The Twentieth Century - a Century of Wars.<br />
How will be arrive at peace?" (25/26 September). In addition, the<br />
MES was able to continue its "scholarly" co-operation with the<br />
university/college Bergische Universität/Gesamthochschule Wuppertal,<br />
where on 13/14 November it staged an event on the subject<br />
of "Late Capitalism without Ideology? Social Awareness in<br />
Our Days", in which more than 100 persons took part.<br />
1.3 " Bundesausschuss Friedensratschlag"<br />
("Federal Committee Peace Consultation")<br />
Founded: 1996 (as ""Arbeitsausschuss Friedensratschlag<br />
- AFriRA ["Working Group Peace<br />
Consultation"])<br />
Headquarters: Kassel (Hesse)<br />
Members: 50<br />
Publications: "Friedenspolitische Korrespondenz"<br />
(FRIKORR - "Peace Policy<br />
Correspondence");<br />
"Friedens-Memorandum" ("Peace<br />
Memorandum"),<br />
yearly<br />
The "Bundesausschuss Friedensratschlag" ["Federal Committee<br />
Peace Consultation"] (until the turn of the year 1998/99: "Arbeitsausschuss<br />
Friedensratschlag" - AFriRa ["Working Group Peace<br />
Consultation"]) is decisively influenced by left-wing extremists. The<br />
majority of its leading functionaries and initiators come from the<br />
�����