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The Communist League of West Germany〔Alternative translations of ”Bund“ are Association, Federation, Union〕 (''Kommunistischer Bund Westdeutschland''; KBW) was a Maoist organization in West Germany which existed from 1973 until 1985. The KBW contested the general elections in 1976 and 1980 in West Germany and was rated as the strongest of the German Maoist parties from 1974 until 1981. After 1982 the KBW was virtually inactive and was finally dissolved completely in 1985. == History == The KBW was formed at a conference held in Bremen in June 1973 as a fusion of various local communist groups from Heidelberg,〔''Kommunistische Gruppe (Neues Rotes Forum)'', KG (NRF)〕 Bremen,〔''Kommunistischer Bund Bremen'', KBB〕 Göttingen,〔''Kommunistischer Bund Göttingen''〕 Freiburg〔''Bund Kommunistischer Arbeiter'', BKA〕 etc. At its inaugural conference the KBW adopted a programme advocating the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism and the bourgeois state and the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat in order to achieve a classless society and communism.〔See: ''Programme of the Kommunistischer Bund Westdeutschland''〕 In its programme the KBW demanded the arming of the people (”''Allgemeine Volksbewaffnung''“). One of the main efforts of the KBW was the struggle against the Bundeswehr (Federal Armed Forces). It organized youth camps dedicated to ideological and practical training for the revolutionary struggle. Members of the KBW participated in violent demonstrations against nuclear power plants in West Germany (Brokdorf, Grohnde). On September 21, 1975 the KBW and his ''Committees against § 218'' organized a demonstration of 25,000 people in Bonn against the German law prohibiting abortion. The KBW contested the general elections in 1976 and 1980 and several land (German ''Bundesland'') and local elections. The organization obtained 20,018 votes or 0,1% in the 1976 elections〔21,414 first ballot votes〕 (8,285 votes 1980). It won one seat in the Heidelberg city council in 1975 which got lost later. Strongholds of the KBW were university towns. The KBW headquarters moved from Mannheim to Frankfurt am Main in April 1977. When the Minister-President of Lower Saxony, Ernst Albrecht, proposed a ban on three maoist groups in 1977,〔''German ban proposed on three groups'', in: The Times, Sep 27, 1977; pg. 5〕 KBW, the maoist ''Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands'' (KPD/AO) and the Communist Party of Germany/Marxist-Leninist (KPD/ML) demonstrated together in Bonn with about 16,000 supporters. The Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) was supported in its armed struggle by contributions from the KBW.〔Motto: ''Gewehre für die Jugend Zimbabwes'' (Rifles for the youth of Zimbabwe)〕 ZANU politicians Ndabaningi Sithole, Robert Mugabe and Edgar Tekere visited West Germany several times at invitation of the KBW. The organization split in the summer of 1980 when about a quarter of the membership formed the League of West German Communists (''Bund Westdeutscher Kommunisten; BWK)'', which continued to work on the basis of the KBW programme of 1973. In 1982 the KBW abandoned its objective of establishing the dictatorship of the proletariat and started to infiltrate The Greens (''Die Grünen''). 〔 Andreas Kühn: Stalins Enkel, Maos Söhne : die Lebenswelt der K-Gruppen in der Bundesrepublik der 70er Jahre. Campus Verlag. Frankfurt. 2005. p. 302ff. 〕 The official weekly ''KVZ'' and the theoretical organ ''KuK'' ceased publication at the end of 1982. Their successor, the monthly ''Kommune'' was not a KBW magazine anymore. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Communist League of West Germany」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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