Left-Extremist Endeavours

"German Communist Party" (DKP) and from the DKP’s front organization
"Deutsche Friedensunion" (DFU - "German Peace Union")
which disbanded in the early 1990s. In its practical political
work, it strives to continue the traditional orthodox-Communist
"peace struggle" 117) . Its preferred alliance partners are organizations
such as the "Deutscher Friedensrat e.V." (DFR - "German
Peace Council (reg’d)"), until 1990 called "Friedensrat der DDR"
("Peace Council of the GDR"), or the still active "World Peace
Council" (WPC; formerly a "front organization" of the "Communist
Party of the Soviet Union", nowadays largely controlled by the
"French Communist Party"). In the spring of 1999, the "Bundesausschuss
Friedensratschlag" published a "Peace Memorandum"
which is intended to give a stock-taking of "peace policy" activities
in 1998 and to provide a basis for the future work of the "peace
movement" as an "extra-parliamentary lobby". This is an implicit
reaffirmation of the Committee’s claim to being a kind of umbrella
organization of the "peace movement".
Opposition against NATO’s military operations in Kosovo was
seen by the Committee as a chance to promote an anti-Western
protest movement and to expand its own influence within that
movement.
For 5 June, it announced an extraordinary nationwide round of
"Peace Policy Consultations" at Kassel University/Gesamthochschule.
The purpose of that meeting was to co-ordinate the activities
of the "peace movement" against NATO operations in
Kosovo and to increase the "pressure ... on the Government" 118) .
The 200 participants included many organizers of the earlier orthodox-Communist
"peace struggle", members and functionaries
of the DKP and the DFU and of the PDS and the DFR, as well as
representatives of foreign Communist Parties and of ideologically
like-minded "peace organizations". The meeting adopted "Twelve
Points for Peace" which, for instance, call for resistance against
the "aggressive new NATO strategy and militarization of the EU".
1.4 "Vereinigung der Verfolgten des Naziregimes
- Bund der Antifaschistinnen und
Antifaschisten" (VVN-BdA - "Union of
Victims of Nazi Persecution - Alliance of Anti-
Fascists")
Founded: 1947
Headquarters: Frankfurt/Main (Hesse)
National Executive
Secretariat: Hanover (Lower Saxony)
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