Revolutionary Socialist League (Germany)
The Revolutionary Socialist Federal / Fourth International (Brief description: RSB ) is an oriented on Trotskyism Communist party small and, together with its " sister organization " international socialist left the German section of the Fourth International (United Secretariat).
Substantive Profile
" Not in the context of capitalist social and economic order solvable fundamental problems of the world - - war, environmental destruction, unemployment, poverty and hunger " and set his sights so a "self-managed socialist democracy " in which " the exploitation Following his self-representation of RSB holds the people should stop by the people. "
In practice this means, inter alia, participating in demonstrations against the wars against Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and Iraq, activities in defense of Mumia Abu -Jamal, and participation in protests against cuts in social services, such as the demonstrations against the "Hartz IV" in the fall of 2004. RSB occurs with the slogan " unit instead of splitting " for the broadest possible alliances. The RSB encourages "anti-fascist protective self- organize [ to ] " and " fascist organizations smash [ to ] ".
The RSB sees the SPD as a " bourgeois party " and rejects it because of it - unlike, say, its predecessor organization GIM - from invoke directly or indirectly to the election of the SPD. He was advocating instead " for the construction of a new socialist workers' party " a, " can only emerge from the struggles of the working class " which could. Unlike its " sister organization " international socialist left supported the RSB also not the structure of the choice alternative work and social justice, and rejects the newly formed Left Party decisively.
By the Federal Office for the Protection of the RSB was classified and observed in 2007 but not mentioned in 2006 as a left-wing extremism. In this Annual Report 2008 of the State of Brandenburg, he is again referred to as left-wing extremism.
History
The party was founded in November 1994. The headquarters are in Mannheim, the RSB has claims to have 24 local groups, especially in larger cities and in 11 of the 16 states of the Federal Republic. In Jena and Wuppertal, there is also one the RSB affiliated university group.
The activities of the RSB are mainly in the extra-parliamentary space, such as political and trade union work in companies and political campaigns in the public, including especially the monthly newspaper Avanti and multiple operating newspapers serve. Also in the ecology movement is a focus of the group.
The RSB is registered as a party after the party law of the Federal Republic of Germany the Federal Returning Officer. In the state elections in Baden- Württemberg 2001, the RSB provided a direct candidates in Mannheim, also in 2006. During the state election of 2011, the RSB competed in both Mannheim constituencies.
Historical continuity
Together with the group international socialist left ( isl ) is the RSB the German part of the United Secretariat of the Fourth International. There, the RSB is part of the left wing, which bitterly opposed the government of the majority of the former Brazilian section and hasty Umgruppierungsprozesse rejects.