Left-Extremist Endeavours

Attempts to arrive at a new
strategic orientation
Anti-Americanism
GFP - largest right-extremist
cultural association
of its long existence, its circulation of 15,000 copies, and its importance
within that camp. For years it has called upon the factional
right-extremist camp to co-operate. Thus "Nation & Europa"
euphorically commented the agreement between the
chairmen of the "Deutsche Volksunion" (DVU - "German
People’s Union") and of the party "Die Republikaner" (REP - "The
Republicans") who had agreed to avoid competition of
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candidacies in elections . However, contrary to the
expectations of "Nation & Europa", any longer-term co-operation
or even organizational merger failed to materialize.
Other articles in "Nation & Europa" pleaded for a broader perspective,
drew attention to target groups such as young people,
students’ societies/fraternities and subcultures, discussed potential
new allies such as "leftist renegades", and outlined new fields
of action such as the struggle between the Church and State
(culture struggle) 96) . The remarkable thing about such proposal
was that the respective authors only formulated very broad
strategic options and, what is more, did not name any actors and
organizers for the suggested approaches and actions.
Apart from that, "Nation & Europa" did not display any ideological
innovation: in response to the participation of the Federal Armed
Forces in NATO’s military operation in Yugoslavia - which was
vehemently objected to by the editors, often in the same form
and with the same words as the pertinent Serbian position - there
was growing anti-Americanism. Franz SCHÖNHUBER, a regular
columnist, contended that this was an era of neo-colonialism and
that the colonial lords stayed in America. He called for a
"Detachment from America" movement which would also have to
take up political left-wing argumentation patterns. Along these
lines he also deplored that the "Partei des Demokratischen
Sozialismus" (PDS - "Party of Democratic Socialism") in the
European elections had been able to bring in the harvest which
should rightfully have been brought to the granaries of the right
wing 97) . In another article, SCHÖNHUBER even went as far as to
invoke a "Eurasian Bloc", including China, against the U.S. 98) .
This demand clearly shows that even an alliance with communist
dictatorships is not ruled out in the context of initiating a bloc
against the United States.
A number of right-extremist publishers, editors and booksellers
and authors were members of the "Gesellschaft für Freie Publizistik"
(GFP - "Society for Free Journalism") founded in 1960.
With some 450 members, this is the largest right-extremist cultural
association which has contacts with various right-extremist
organizations and publishing houses. Its Chairman, Dr. Rolf
KOSIEK, works for the publishing house "Grabert-Verlag". By way
of introduction to the 1999 GFP Congress on "Germany &
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