Workers' Power (Germany)

The group workers' power is a Trotskyist group and the German section of the League for the Fifth International.

History

The origins of the Group in Spartacusbund ( SpB ), in 1982 disbanded. A fraction further wanted to establish a communist organization in the Federal Republic of Germany and stood with the British Workers Power group in contact, the group established workers' power ( GAM). These two groups, with the Irish Workers Group in Ireland and Pouvoir Ouvrier in France, merged to form the Movement for a Revolutionary Communist International ( BRKI ). She quickly grew their supporters from Austria, Peru and Bolivia and renamed themselves League for a Revolutionary Communist International ( LRCI ). Then groups were added in New Zealand, Australia, Sweden and the Czech Republic. In 2003, she adopted a new program and called themselves the League for the Fifth International ( L5I ) around. In 2009, more organizations joined as Workers Power (U.S.), the Revolutionary Socialist Movement ( Worker Power Pakistan) and the SPSL ( Socialist Party Sri Lanka, a left split the CWI).

Activities

The group are two publications: The New International as a monthly newspaper and Revolutionary Marxism as a theoretical organ.

Activity of the group workers' power includes not only the work in operating and social struggles, the union and the anti-crisis movement, other fields of intervention such as the anti-imperialist movement, the student strike and the support of left - alternative party building projects ( last WASG / NLO - wing).

Furthermore, the group is working on workers' power of the Left newspaper - a flow cross- socialist media organ.

The group workers' power is closely connected with the youth -oriented organization Revolution ( onesolutionrevolution ).

Assessment of the constitutional protection authorities

The organization is " isolated even within the left-wing extremism (s) [ ... ] self-proclaimed (r ) Keeper of Trotskyist orthodoxy " by the Federal Office for Protection of the Constitution described as the " in at least a dozen cities bases " have. Objectives of the organization are the disarmament of the bourgeois state, the establishment of a Soviet domination and ultimately the world revolution.

According to the Department Protection of the Constitution in the Senate of the Interior and Sport, the organization tried to support their own candidates, together with other left-wing extremist groups, the electoral lists of the WASG Berlin for elections to the Berlin House of Representatives and to the Borough Assemblies in 2006 within their Entrismustrategie.