Left-Extremist Endeavours

MLKP agitates against
World Economic Summit in
Cologne
1.2.4 "Marxist-Leninist Communist Party"
(MLKP)
- Basic data for Germany -
Founded: 1994 (in Turkey)
Leadership: a group of functionaries
Members: about 700 (1998: 700)
Publications: inter alia, "Politikada Atilim" ("Political Attack"),
biweekly
The "Marxist-Leninist Communist Party" (MLKP) also aims at the
disintegration, by force, of the Turkish state structure and at the
establishment of a Communist social system in Turkey. Accordingly,
the MLKP in Turkey also took violent action including attacks
on candidates and polling stations of middle-class parties.
In Germany, on the other hand, the organization focused on
propaganda activities. Of the few public activities, the nation-wide
meeting on the occasion of the 5 th anniversary of the party’s
foundation in Leverkusen on 13 November was a prominent
event. With the "Federation of Immigrant Workers from Turkey in
Germany (reg’d)" (AGIF), the party disposes of a nation-wide
base (grassroots) organization. Its work priorities include the
"fight against imperialism". Thus an AGIF pamphlet disseminated
on the occasion of the World Economic Summit held in Cologne
in June read as follows:
"At this so-called World Economic Summit, the richest
representatives of the world will discuss their possibilities for
further exploitation of the Third World countries. To the
general public, this will then be propagandized as debt relief,
but in reality this means ruthless over-exploitation of
resources, more unemployment and misery for these
countries ... If we do not want to pay the costs of the combines’
and banks’ greed for profit, we must say no to the
imperialistic policy. For imperialism is nothing else but war,
pauperization and oppression."
Violent reactions were triggered off by the killing of an AGIF
supporter in Cologne on 1 July. The organization blamed this on
supporters of the extreme-nationalist Turkish "National Movement
Party" (MHP). During a demonstration march organized by
the AGIF in Cologne on 2 July, in which some 300 persons participated,
violent attacks on police officers took place.
There were no more reports of violent clashes between supporters
of the MLKP and its break-away group and rival "Communist
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