Marcus Bakker
Marcus Bakker ( born June 20, 1923 in Zaandam, † December 24, 2009 ) was a Dutch communist journalist and politician.
Biography
Bakker was born into a politically active family in the context of Social Democratic Workers' Party ( SDAP ), the predecessor of today's Partij van de Arbeid ( PvdA). During the German occupation of the Netherlands in 1943, he joined the Communist resistance movement and the communistic Partij van Nederland ( CPN ) to.
Immediately after the liberation by the Allied Forces, he became in 1945 a member of the national leadership of CPN and then in 1947 by the Executive Board. In this capacity he was in 1951 next to the admired him party leader Paul de Groot to the relevant authors of the election program of the CPN. It was called Joseph Stalin of the " all time greatest commander ", which highlighted the strong CPSU - oriented attitude of the party.
1953 he was appointed chief editor of the party newspaper De Waarheid and thus became the youngest editor in chief of the Netherlands. During his permanent occupation until 1958, the newspaper announced on March 6, 1953 to the death of Stalin, a special edition out. After " De Waarheid " had taken the side of the invaders during the Hungarian uprising, it was therefore excluded from the daily newspaper association NDP. There was a discharge of public anger against the party and newspaper, as a crowd tried the party house " Felix Meritis " in which the printing of Waarheid was home to storm. In other respects, swerved the newspaper, so she was the only one of the self-censorship of Dutch newspapers not bent during the Greet Hofman's affair and reported this.
In 1956 he was elected as representative of the CPN for the Members of the Second Chamber of the States General, the lower house of the Dutch parliament and belonged to this until 1982.
From 1963 to 1982 Bakker was the successor de Groot's not only leader of the CPN in the Second Chamber, but also next to the party chairman de Groot and the actual political leader of the party and led it after the break with the CPSU in 1963 becoming a selectable left alternative from. 1972 won the CPN seven deputies mandates, which is also the formation of a Popular Front government could be conceivable.
However, the election campaign was ( " Van Agt eruit, de CPN erin " ) in the elections in 1977 against the Katholieke Volkspartij (CIP) under Dries van Agt by Acting Prime Minister and chairman of the PvdA, Joop den Uyl, considered to be so aggressive that it has a coalition with the CPN excluded and thus, despite its position as the largest group opted not to form a government. The CPN himself suffered a severe defeat in 1977 and gained only two seats in Parliament. As de Groot then allocating the debt next Bakker and other leading politicians of the CPN as the new party chairman Henk Hoekstra and the brothers Jaap and Joop Wolff, it came to the first, but also single dispute between Bakker and de Groot.
The collapse of most communist governments around the world after the Wall came down in 1989, he looked at as a deep cut in the communist world view, however, condemned the other hand, the emerging changes in the ideologies of the communist parties.
After the dissolution of the CPN he eventually became in 1991 a member of the newly formed party Groen Links.
Works
- Wissel - Bespiegelingen zonder berouw, autobiography, 1983