Workers' Liberty

The MLPD is a fairly large Maoist organisation, and the largest Maoist group in Germany. Produces the weekly populist paper "Rote Fahne" (Red Flag...what would Luxemburg and Liebknecht have had to say about that???) The paper can be read on the website, the advantage of the printed edition is that you can then play (possibly for money) "how many photos of party guru Stefan Engel (and/or his wife, Monika Gärtner-Engel) are in the paper this week?". Members are regularly expelled for "non-proletarian thinking", i.e. disagreeing with the leadership. This is reported in the RF. The MLPD's youth group is called "Rebell", the children's section (!) are the "Rotfüchse" ("Red foxes"), Tries to emulate the German CP in the late 1920s. For the MLPD, the Soviet Union etc. were all "capitalist", from the moment Kruschchev made his secret speech criticising Stalin in Moscow in 1956. Before this, these states were "genuinely socialist" and the USSR or the GDR pre 1956 are the model for the states and systems the MLPD wishes to erect after a proletarian revolution.