Left-Extremist Endeavours

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Left-Extremist Endeavours
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The designation "under left-extremist influence" refers to organizations
founded or infiltrated by left-wing extremists, which present themselves as
non-partisan or independent, but which actually are under a significant leftextremist
influence. In nearly all cases, some of the board members and
the majority of the organization’s members are not left-wing extremists, but
the key positions - particularly in the organizational area - are usually held
by left-extremists.
As defined by the Offices for the Protection of the Constitution, terrorism is
the persistent struggle for political goals, which are to be attained with the
help of attacks against persons, life, and property of other persons, in particular
through serious criminal offences as defined in Section 129a, para.
1, of the Penal Code, or through other offences which serve as a preparation
for such crimes.
102) More than 50 scene publications - some of them covertly produced and
distributed - regularly publish letters claiming responsibility, position papers,
calls for demonstrations, "do-it-yourself instructions" (instructions for the
manufacture, inter alia, of incendiary and explosive devices), and other information
relevant to left-extremist discussion and practice. Most of these
publications - e.g. "RAZZ" (Hanover) or "EinSatz" (Göttingen) - are mainly
of regional importance. Of nation-wide relevance are "Interim", published
regularly in Berlin, and the underground periodical "radikal".
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Homepages of the left-extremist community are available on the Internet
but - for reasons of prosecution of criminal offences - are offered by providers
operating in foreign countries. The underground paper "radikal", for instance,
has its texts and information entered on the Internet by providers in
the Netherlands and the U.S.A.
These are distributed - usually free of charge - to pupils and adolescents; of
importance are, for instance, "BRAVO-Antifa" (Berlin), "FIGHT BACK"
(Braunschweig [Brunswick]), "Antifa Jugendinfo Bonn/Rhein-Sieg" and
"BRAST" (Göttingen). These publications, too, openly call for the use of
violence; also, it is quite obvious that even the youth groups, with their professed
commitment to "anti-fascist" aims, pursue farther-reaching objectives:
"Based on our anti-fascist and ultra left-wing position, we will never accept
conditions which are 'distinguished' by racist terror, exploitation of
human labour, fascist pogroms and violence against women. The refusal
to accept all these manifestations of capitalist rule as matter-ofcourse
conditions, and the unrelenting will to eliminate them are the motivation
for our political action."
("Antifa Jugendinfo Bonn/Rhein-Sieg", no. 26 of May 1999)
Horst Ludwig MEYER and Andrea KLUMP obviously had stayed in Vienna for
quite some time. The inquiries into the reason of their stay and into the activities
of these two wanted persons in Vienna were not yet completed at
the end of 1999. There are, however, no indications that they had planned
terrorist activities.
The major thrust of the responses by the scene to the action taken by police
forces was agitation against the alleged continuous "kill search" conducted
by public authorities. Thus, the left-wing extremist "Kurdistan Solidarität
Hamburg" commented that MEYER - like many others - was a figure
exemplary of the fight against the ruling system:
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