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image by Marcus Schmöger, 13 May 2002
See also:The MLPD is now the second-largest communist party in Germany, with
about 2,000 members. Its main activity is in the traditional worker areas
at Rhein and Ruhr (North Rhine-Westphalia). The MLPD takes part in elections;
for instance in the elections to the Bundestag in 1994 and 1998 it got
0,02% and 0,01%, respectively. In the left-radical political scene of Germany
the party is rather isolated; it has contacts to foreign affiliated parties,
though - for instance in Turkey and Peru.
Marcus Schmöger, 13 May 2002
Before 1982 the logo of the precursor organization KABD was used, probably also on flags. I do not have any information on how these flags looked like.
Sources: author's own observations during demonstrations in Munich,
1 May 2001 and 1 May 2002; Constitutional protection report or Verfassungsschutzbericht
at
this website and this
website; letter from the MLPD, dated 24 July 2000; MLPD
website; Geschichte der Marxistisch-Leninistischen Partei Deutschlands,
Düsseldorf, 1986.
Marcus Schmöger, 13 May 2002
The reverse of the flag shows the logo in the same way as the obverse,
i.e. not mirrored. Source: author's own observation, 1st May 2002 demonstration
in Munich.
Marcus Schmöger, 13 May 2002
At the anti-war demonstration in Munich 31 March 2003, a variant simply
showing the yellow inscription "MLPD" on a red field could be seen.
Marcus Schmöger, 10 Apr 2003