Left-Extremist Endeavours

panel was among the organizers of a "Rosa Luxemburg Conference"
held in Berlin on 9 January under the motto "Stört die
neoliberale Internationale!" ("Disrupt the Neoliberal International!").
The Conference announcement contained the following
explanatory note: "80 years after the November Revolution, 40
years after the victory of the Cuban Revolution: Analyses and
Counter-Concepts regarding Prevailing Conditions". Before an
audience of a total of 800 participants, papers were read by
representatives of the Communist Parties of France and Cuba
and of "liberation movements" from Colombia and Guatemala.
The self-image of the working panel is reflected in a commentary
by a "co-ordinator" of "Cuba Sí" on Cuba’s human rights policy in
the daily "Neues Deutschland" (ND) of 15 July: it was a fact that
Cuba assigned the highest priority to the social and collective
human rights over civil/individual rights. To follow any other
course would, in view of today’s human rights imperialism,
inevitably amount to the renunciation of state sovereignty. The
author continued:
"The ’association, in which the individual’s free development is
the prerequisite for the free development of all,’ is a utopia in
our and Cuba’s view. It is dishonest, however, to expect Cuba
to realize such a society on our behalf. The duty to take up
this struggle is ours - and must be assumed here!"
3. "Bund der Antifaschisten (Dachverband) e.V."
(BdA - "Association of Anti-Fascists (Umbrella
Organization), reg’d")
Founded: 1990
Headquarters: Berlin
Chairman: Heinrich FINK
Members: 6,000 (1997: 6,000)
Like the "Vereinigung der Verfolgten des Naziregimes - Bund der
Antifaschistinnen und Antifaschisten" (VVN-BdA - "Union of Victims
of Nazi Persecution - Alliance of Anti-Fascists"), the BdA
claims to be in the tradition of orthodox-Communist anti-fascism.
It sees itself as an all-generation umbrella organization and feels
particularly committed to the anti-fascist resistance fight:
"Young people are interested in the historic roots of fascism
and thus of anti-fascist resistance. They often invite elderly
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