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. ISBN 9781604868937. Retrieved 2022-10-24.
  2. ↑ Geronimo (June 2012). Fire and Flames: A History of the German Autonomist Movement - Geronimo. ISBN 9781604867299. Retrieved 2022-10-24.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Alexander, Robert Jackson (2001). Maoism in the Developed World - Robert Jackson Alexander. ISBN 9780275961480. Retrieved 2022-10-24.
  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 ... ISBN 9781351366106. Retrieved 2022-10-24.
  5. ↑ Brown, Timothy Scott (10 October 2013). West Germany and the Global Sixties: The Anti-Authoritarian Revolt, 1962–1978. ISBN 9781107470347.
  6. ↑ Smith, J.; Moncourt, André (July 2013). Red Army Faction, A Documentary History: Volume 1: Projectiles for the People. ISBN 9781604868937.
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