Workers' Liberty

A radical-democratic activist youth group. The "Jungdemokraten" were the youth section until 1982 of the FDP (Liberal) party, when it split from the FDP over the party's decision to bring down the SPD-Liberal coalition and swap allegiance to Kohl's Christian Democrats. The "Marxistische Jugendvereinigung Junge Linke" - Marxist Youth Organisation Young Left - emerged as part of the revolution in Stalinist East Germany in 1989, as a nationally-organised Marxist youth group, independent from the state and its youth front, the "Free German Youth" (FDJ). In 1992, the West German Jungdemokraten and the East German MJV-Junge Linke merged, hence the organisation's name "JD-JL". It is the most important political youth organisation not connected to a party in parliament. Despite this, JD-JL is a useful springboard for wannabe parliamentarians to get a post in the PDS, for example. Does a lot of anti-militarism and pro-drugs work, and work around education and the school system (organises burnings of school reports, for example).