International Marxist Group (Germany)
The International Marxist Group (Brief description: GIM), German section of the Fourth International, was a small revolutionary Marxist ( Trotskyist ) organization in the 1970s and 1980s. Although named after the German section, the GIM fact existed only in the Federal Republic of Germany and West Berlin.
Development
The GIM published the newspaper do what and led ( together with the Austrian sister organization group Revolutionary Marxists [ GRM ] ) has been published since the 1950s, The International Journal on, from which it had derived its name. what do appeared at different times in monthly (1968 to May 1974), vierzehntäglichem ( May 1974-March 1976 May 1979-1986 ) or weekly ( March 1976-May 1979 ) rhythm; the rest ranged from 2,200 (1982) and 9000 (1974 ) copies. Members of the editorial staff what to do were in 1968, among many others, Bernhard Achterberg, Günter Amendt, Peter Brandt, Rudi Dutschke and Gaston Salvatore.
The GIM was created in 1969 as a public continuation of the German section of the Fourth International, which led no independent existence since public the early 1950s, but entrism in the SPD mode ( previously they had occurred for a short time under the name of International Communists of Germany ( IKD ) - the name that the German, Trotsky had given their organization in the 1930s ). As one of the outstanding achievements of the section in the fifties is considered the political and material support of the Algerian liberation struggle against French imperialism. In the wake of the student movement and the youth radicalization called GIM 1970, the Revolutionary Communist Youth ( RKJ ) as a youth cadre organization to life. The RKJ quickly found new followers and soon was numerically stronger than the section itself; In 1972, she had about 400 members. To end the resultant of numerous double memberships doubling of organizational structures, both organizations concluded at the turn of 1972/73 under the name International Marxist Group together.
Prominent members of the old German section were among others, the coming of the Communist Party Willy Boepple from Mannheim, who had been elected on the Unity Congress in 1946 in the Board of the SED and the over the Titoist Independent Workers Party of Germany ( UAPD ) in 1951 came to Trotskyism, and Georg Jungclas (1902-1975) from Hamburg (later Cologne), which had belonged to the Communist Party and the left opposition of the Communist Party before 1933 and the Nazi period survived as an exile in Denmark, after Jakob Moneta, however, as long as he is in a prominent position dominated by the Social Democrats IG Metall held ( Moneta was long editor of the union newspaper metal ), not publicly known to its membership.
The independent existence of the GIM ended in 1986 through the merger with the KPD / ML (Communist Party of Germany / Marxists -Leninists ) ( Roter Morgen ) for VSP ( United Socialist Party ), which was later renamed the Association of Socialist policy. A minority of GIM did not participate in this union and went to the countryside, where some of their supporters were able to briefly play a prominent ( regional scale ) role. This is similar for the youth organization " Red Mole", the now independent profiled itself as a mole.
Programmatic
With its commitment to a settlement based on soviet democracy and self-government socialist alternative GIM distanced himself sharply from Stalinism as from those in the seventies, the radical left of the Federal Republic of dominant Maoist splinter parties. Among other things, the party expressed its solidarity with the international liberation and independence movements and fought nationalist viewpoints. In the Federal Republic of GIM was considered part of the " New Left ," a broad movement of various independent left-wing socialist and left alternative groups and individuals who had no common organizational band. To the common denominator of the " New Left " was the positioning to the left of Stalinism and social democracy and advocacy for internationalism.
The GIM was the German section of the Fourth International, the. , 1938 in sharp contrast and as an alternative to the Stalinist III ( Communist ) International was founded on the initiative of Leon Trotsky. At times of impact on the " New Left ", the GIM remained the official policy of the Federal Republic without meaning; parliamentary she was not represented.
Known members
In addition to the above- Mentioned was also Winfried Wolf, the (PDS ) later sat for the Party of Democratic Socialism, among other things as transport spokesman in the Bundestag, one of the more well-known representative of the GIM. In the PDS Wolf, who openly confessed to his GIM past, for non-dogmatic, critical left wing of the PDS parliamentary party belonged.
Former members of the GIM are also the Bündnis-90/Die-Grünen-Politikerin and temporary Federal Minister of Health the first Schröder government Andrea Fischer, the Berlin Green MP Volker Ratzmann and the subsequent PDS Economics Senator in ( conducted by Klaus Wowereit ) " red - red " Senate of Berlin, Harald Wolf, his brother Udo Wolf, whose cousin Elke Breitenbach and television journalist Sonia Seymour Mikich, Norbert Hackbusch and Kerstin Müller.
See also: Category: GIM Member
Election results
- Bundestag election 1976: 4767 (0.0%) of the second votes (in Hamburg, North Rhine -Westphalia and Baden- Württemberg) and 2035 primary vote ( in 12 constituencies )
- Election to local council in Berlin- Kreuzberg 1985: Two members of the GIM candidate on the list of AL ( 25.5%), one is elected to the District Assembly.