Internet Statement #5/98

      
     Concerning misreport in a book by 
         the Bouvier publishing house


Misreports about leftist and revolutionary organizations are 
nothing new. An especially flagrant renewed case is the book 
     "Linksextremismus - eine unterschaetzte Gefahr" 
     ("Left Extremism - an Underestimated Danger") 
by Patrick Moreau and Joerg Lang, published by Bouvier 
publishing house, Bonn, 1996.

The authors apparently are close to the Konrad Adenauer 
Foundation and already by the structuring of the title show 
what kind of persons they are. They deliver descriptions in 
this book about several parties and organizations which they 
label "left extremists".
The book contains also a passage about the KDP/ML (NEUE 
EINHEIT) - under this name our organization appeared in public 
until 1994 - : 

    "This small group originated in 1970 from a split from the
    'KPD/ML’. It appears virtually only by leaflets. The leading
    thinker is Klaus Sender (pen name for Hartmut Dicke). The
    number of members is below 10. The group has the publishing
    house Neue Einheit (Dortmund/Berlin) and publishes the
    magazine Neue Einheit. Note*. In the preliminary remark it
    is mentioned that the group fought against a split in 1993
    and that four members had been excluded from the party by a
    decision of the Central Committee. The ‘KDP/ML -Neue
    Einheit’ continues to orientate itself by the theories of
    Mao Tse-tung but propagates a ‘new practice’ corresponding
    better to the new political conditions. Note**"

In the notes we read "meeting of Patrick Moreau with a 
representative of Neue Einheit on May 1st, 1995, in Berlin" and 
further: "from a conversation of Patrick Moreau with a person 
responsible in Berlin on May 1st, 1995."

In the first place it has to be said that Patrick Moreau never 
spoke to a legitimized responsible person of the group NEUE 
EINHEIT on May 1st, 1995. Patrick Moreau had been unknown to 
our organization until the discovery of this book some time 
ago. 
It is not admissible to go to a bookstall and, for a book which 
claims to provide reliable information, to obtain utterances 
from one or probably several persons the position of which with 
regard to the organization is not at all clear, and to mix them 
up. 
Our organization has an official address, numerous 
corresponding written documents are available. The way in which 
alleged informations are allegedly obtained here is more than 
dubious. 

Several informations are wrong. The information about the 
number of members, about which members of our organization 
anyway do not give information, is not "below ten", as stated 
by these people. Our organization has not been appearing only
by leaflets. Its fundament always has been - over twenty 
years - the unity of political theoretical work, propaganda
and work in the factories, and the work in its own and in
foreign events usually carried through on concrete occasions. 

This group, for example, stands against the political trend of 
ecologism reigning from "far left" too "far right" and 
criticizes the whole basic substance of the Greens, only by 
this already differing from all other organizations. This 
"peculiarity" cannot have escaped even these conservative 
writers’ notice. Also other hot subjects as for example the 
position towards terrorism (state connection) are not mentioned 
at all, whereas they find it worth to quote a decision from the 
above-mentioned issue that in 1993 four members were expelled, 
mentioning the CC’s resolution together with its date but 
omitting all other circumstances, especially the subsequent 
almost unanimous resolution of the organization’s conference.
A split, however, must be denied as the four people in question 
did not at all form a new political group, not, by the way,  
being able to do that because of their purely negative 
disposition. 

If the remaining informations are of equal quality one can well 
drop this book, or at best use it for understanding its 
writers’ intentions.

Editorial staff of NEUE EINHEIT       June 1998