Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands (Aufbauorganisation)

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The Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands (Aufbauorganisation) (KPD (AO), Communist Party of Germany (Pre-Party Formation)) was a West German Maoist group founded in 1970. It changed its name to the Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands (KPD) a year later. [1]

In 1973 KPD members occupied and vandalized Bonn's city hall to protest a visit by South Vietnam's Prime Minister. [2] [3] By 1974 it was West Germany's most significant Maoist party, with 5,000 members. [3] About a quarter of its members were women. [3] It dissolved in 1980. [3]

Jörg Immendorff illustrated some of their publications. [4]

Members

References

  1. ↑ Smith, J.; Moncourt, André (July 2013). Red Army Faction, A Documentary History: Volume 1: Projectiles for the People. PM Press. ISBN   9781604868937 . Retrieved 24 October 2022.
  2. ↑ Geronimo (June 2012). Fire and Flames: A History of the German Autonomist Movement - Geronimo. PM Press. ISBN   9781604867299 . Retrieved 24 October 2022.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Alexander, Robert Jackson (2001). Maoism in the Developed World - Robert Jackson Alexander. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN   9780275961480 . Retrieved 24 October 2022.
  4. ↑ Jian, Chen; Klimke, Martin; Kirasirova, Masha; Nolan, Mary; Young, Marilyn; Waley-Cohen, Joanna (6 February 2018). The Routledge Handbook of the Global Sixties: Between Protest and Nation ... Routledge. ISBN   9781351366106 . Retrieved 24 October 2022.
  5. ↑ Brown, Timothy Scott (10 October 2013). West Germany and the Global Sixties: The Anti-Authoritarian Revolt, 1962–1978. Cambridge University Press. ISBN   9781107470347.
  6. ↑ Smith, J.; Moncourt, André (July 2013). Red Army Faction, A Documentary History: Volume 1: Projectiles for the People. PM Press. ISBN   9781604868937.
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