Communist Platform
The Communist Platform ( KPF ) is a political union within the Left Party. The PCF advocates that communist positions remain anchored in the party. It is assigned to the orthodox left wing of the party.
The Federal Office for Protection of the Constitution it is still one of the "open extremist [ s ] " mergers in the Left Party, an assessment that is also taken up in the party, and without prejudice research divided the particular evaluation of the whole party.
Substantive Profile
A key concern of the PCF is the preservation and further development of Marxist positions within the Left Party. A " strategic goal " for its members, who describe themselves as "communists", is the " establishment of a new socialist society, which uses the positive experience of real socialism and of the past mistakes draws lessons ". Main concerns are improvements in the interest of the have-nots. Other key concerns are anti-fascism and anti-racism. The merger is intended vehemently against any kind of anti-communism.
Work
The PCF is a labor and community of interest that the Left actively acts on the basis of the party program and statutes at the base and in party structures. This means that the PCF is mainly active within the party. Members of the PCF are involved as chairman or members of party executive boards of various levels in the bodies of the Left Party; several members are elected in local and municipal parliaments. Sahra Wagenknecht is drafted into the German Bundestag after a period in the European Parliament, on the North Rhine-Westphalian list of the party in 2009. Since February 2010, resting their membership of the PCF.
The PCF had six delegates to the party days ( a total of 542 delegates, corresponds to about 1 % of the delegates ).
Regularly also known members of the PCF be selected in other structures of the party. Also in the program committee, the PCF was represented by one member. This put his work down there in 2006.
An important tool of the PCF are the messages of the Communist platform, a members' magazine, which is published monthly and can be printed for free or by donation or digital based. The notices also appear regularly posts by not Die Linke associated persons. Among the authors included, for example, died in 2007 of Kurt Goldstein and Egon Krenz.
As an important task of the collaboration is with leftist forces considered, especially with the DKP, the KPD and the red fox.
Structures
The Communist platform one claims to around 1,200 members (as of early 2012 ).
The highest decision-making body within the PCF is the national conference, what the revolving meets twice a year. Here all members of the group can come to speak and vote on motions.
In addition to the national conference, there is the Bundeskoordinierungsrat ( BKR ), which consists of twelve members and meets regularly to take decisions. Where possible, members should be represented in all national associations in BKR. The Federal Conference elects next to the Bundeskoordinierungsrat loud KPF Statute also form the four speakers the national speakers' council (BSR ), one of the speakers is currently Ellen Brombacher.
The PCF has in many (not all ) states own national organizations that meet regularly.
Member of Parliament
- Matthias Bärwolff, MP Thuringia
Contacts
Within the Left Party, the PCF is working closely with the Marxist Forum and the Gera dialogue. Close links are also maintained with Cuba Sí and Ecological platform. Above all, the Forum for Democratic Socialism (FDS ) within the left is the PCF was very critical.
Outside of the Left Party, the PCF is working closely with the DKP. So always attended by a representative of the DKP, the Federal Conference and vice versa, the PCF is always invited to the party days of the DKP.
Observation by the Protection of the Constitution
The PCF is being observed in twelve states except Berlin, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg- Vorpommern and the Saarland by the appropriate national authorities for protection of the Constitution and the Federal Office for the Protection overt and covert with the explanation that she was left-wing extremism and anti-constitutional. In Berlin it was from 1990 to 2004, under surveillance in Mecklenburg until November 2000, in Saarland until 2008. By the Federal Office for Protection of the Constitution, it was referred to as the some 1,100 members in 2009 ( 961 in 2008), most members openly extremist concentration within the Left Party.