Federal Ministry of the Interior of the Federal Republic of Germany 2005 Annual Report on the Protection of the Constitution Organisational Data.................................................................8 I. Organisational data pursuant to Section 16 (2) of the Federal Act on the Protection of the Constitution (Bundesverfassungsschutzgesetz, BVerfSchG)........................................................................................................8 1. Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) ..................................8 2. Military Counterintelligence Service (MAD).........................................................8 II. Other organisational data.................................................................................8 Democracy and Protection of the Constitution ..........................9 I. Protection of the Constitution under the Basic Law......................................9 II. Offices for the Protection of the Constitution: Tasks and powers .............11 III. Supervision of the authorities responsible for the protection of the Constitution.....................................................................................................13 IV. Annual Report on the Protection of the Constitution ..................................14 V. Protection of the Constitution through information and awareness..........15 Politically motivated crime .................................................... 18 I. Defining politically motivated crime..............................................................18 II. Politically motivated crimes...........................................................................19 III. Politically motivated crime with an extremist background, by category ...........................................................................................................20 1. Right-wing crime with an extremist background................................................20 2. Left-wing crimes with an extremist background.................................................30 Contents - 3 - Right-Wing Extremist Activities.............................................. 42 I. Overview.......................................................................................................... 42 1. Ideology ............................................................................................................ 42 2. Developments within right-wing extremism....................................................... 43 3. Organisations and following.............................................................................. 45 4. Periodical publications ...................................................................................... 48 II. Right-wing extremists with a propensity to violence .................................. 49 1. Violent right-wing extremist following................................................................ 49 2. Right-wing terrorism.......................................................................................... 49 3. Right-wing extremist skinheads ........................................................................ 51 III. Neo-Nazism ..................................................................................................... 60 IV. Political parties ............................................................................................... 66 1. Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands (NPD, National-Democratic Party of Germany) ............................................................................................ 66 2. Deutsche Volksunion (DVU, German People’s Union) ..................................... 86 3. Die Republikaner (REP, The Republicans)....................................................... 95 V. Efforts to foster intellectual right-wing extremism.................................... 102 VI. Anti-Semitism ............................................................................................... 106 VII. International connections ............................................................................ 114 1. Events with international participation............................................................. 114 2. Attempts to form extra-parliamentary alliances with European organisations .................................................................................................. 116 3. International revisionism ................................................................................. 117 VIII. Unaffiliated publishing houses and distributors ....................................... 121 IX. Right-Wing Extremism on the Internet ....................................................... 126 - 4 - Contents Left-Wing Extremist Activities.............................................. 128 I. Overview ........................................................................................................128 1. Left-wing extremist developments...................................................................128 2. Organisations and following ............................................................................131 3. Publishers, distributors and periodicals...........................................................133 II. Violent left-wing extremism .........................................................................135 1. Autonomists ....................................................................................................136 2. Traditional anarchists ......................................................................................148 III. Political parties and other groups ...............................................................150 1. Die Linkspartei.PDS (The Left Party.PDS)......................................................150 2. Deutsche Kommunistische Partei (DKP, German Communist Party) and associated groups ...........................................................................................165 3. Marxistisch-Leninistische Partei Deutschlands (MLPD, Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany)...........................................................................................171 4. Trotskyist groups.............................................................................................173 5. Rote Hilfe e. V. (RH, Red Aid, reg'd society)..................................................176 IV. Areas of activity ............................................................................................179 1. Anti-fascism.....................................................................................................179 2. Campaign against “dismantling the welfare state”...........................................183 3. Campaign by left-wing extremists against nuclear energy ..............................184 4. Anti-globalisation movement ...........................................................................186 Islamist / Islamist Terrorist Activities .................................. 188 I. Overview ........................................................................................................188 1. Developments within Islamism ........................................................................188 2. Organisations and followers............................................................................191 II. International Islamist terrorism....................................................................192 Contents - 5 - 1. Current developments .................................................................................... 192 2. Al-Qaeda (The Base)...................................................................................... 194 3. Regional mujahidin groups ............................................................................. 196 4. Non-aligned mujahidin .................................................................................... 200 5. Public statements ........................................................................................... 202 III. Islamism ........................................................................................................ 205 1. Of Arab origin ................................................................................................. 205 2. Of Turkish origin ............................................................................................. 213 3. Others............................................................................................................. 222 IV. Overview of measures taken by the Federal Ministry of the Interior (BMI) under the law on associations........................................................... 228 Activities by Extremist Foreigners that Endanger the Security of the State (excluding Islamism) ................... 231 I. Overview........................................................................................................ 231 1. Developments within foreign extremism (excluding Islamism)....................... 231 2. Organisations and followers ........................................................................... 233 II. Goals and main activities of individual groups ......................................... 235 1. Turks (excluding Kurds).................................................................................. 235 2. Kurds .............................................................................................................. 244 3. Iranians..........................................................................................................