analyse & kritik

ak - analyse & kritik is the successor to Arbeiterkampf (AK), the newspaper of Kommunistischer Bund, which was originally a Maoist K-Group. The KB emerged from the protests of 1968. In the 1980s KB was the leading organisation of the "undogmatic left" (undogmatische Linke). The first edition of AK was published in December 1971. The newspaper remained when the KB disbanded in 1991. For a little longer than a year, until summer 1992, it was produced conjointly by both the majority and the minority fraction of the KB as an umbrella organization. From August 1992 (issue no. 345) the former majority of the KB was the sole publisher, and the newspaper received its current unaltered name: ak - analyse & kritik. In 1999, the Verein für politische Bildung, Analyse und Kritik e.V. became publisher and the newspaper focus since then has been left, but in a broader sense.