Workers' Party of Germany

Workers' Party of Germany

Partei der Arbeit Deutschlands
Workers' Party of Germany Partei der Arbeit Deutschlands
Abbreviation	PdAD
Leader	Michael Koth
Founded	1995
Dissolved	1998
Headquarters	Nordhausen
Ideology	Juche; National Bolshevism; Revolutionary nationalism; Strasserism; Querfront
Political position	Far-right
	Politics of Germany; Political parties; Elections;

The Workers' Party of Germany (German: Partei der Arbeit Deutschlands) short-form: PdAD, was a minor political party in Germany. It saw its mission in overcoming the left-right political divide via the Querfront strategy.^[2]^[3]

The party modeled itself around the Workers' Party of Korea and its Juche ideology, which it viewed as national communist.^[4] According to Michael Koth, founder and leader of the party, it attracted and united members of the DKP, former FDJ, as well as revolutionary nationalists and nationalist socialists.^[5] It saw itself as a "Union of national communists and national revolutionaries" in the spirit of the Strasser brothers, Ernst Niekisch, and Anton Ackermann that pursued a "German Socialism".^[1]

The PdAD believed that the German Democratic Republic had not failed on the social, but rather the national question; which is why the next socialism on German soil must, according to the party, be a national and German socialism in order to survive.^[2] The party thus saw itself inspired by the Juche ideology, which had endured the collapse of communism.

^ ^a ^b "Sozial und Rechts?". archiv.labournet.de. Retrieved 2023-03-12.
^ ^a ^b "Die "Partei der Arbeit" | Antifa Infoblatt". www.antifainfoblatt.de. Retrieved 2023-03-12.
^ Meyer, Ahlrich (2010-01-01), "Niederlande", Das Wissen um Auschwitz, Brill | Schöningh, pp. 52–71, doi:10.30965/9783657770236_005, ISBN 978-3-657-77023-6, retrieved 2023-05-09
^ Grumke, Thomas; Wagner, Bernd (2013-03-08). Handbuch Rechtsradikalismus: Personen — Organisationen — Netzwerke vom Neonazismus bis in die Mitte der Gesellschaft (in German). Springer-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-322-97559-1.
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[:0-1] "Sozial und Rechts?". archiv.labournet.de. Retrieved 2023-03-12.

[:2-2] "Die "Partei der Arbeit" | Antifa Infoblatt". www.antifainfoblatt.de. Retrieved 2023-03-12.

[3] Meyer, Ahlrich (2010-01-01), "Niederlande", Das Wissen um Auschwitz, Brill | Schöningh, pp. 52–71, doi:10.30965/9783657770236_005, ISBN 978-3-657-77023-6, retrieved 2023-05-09

[:4-4] Grumke, Thomas; Wagner, Bernd (2013-03-08). Handbuch Rechtsradikalismus: Personen — Organisationen — Netzwerke vom Neonazismus bis in die Mitte der Gesellschaft (in German). Springer-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-322-97559-1.

[5] "Heiko Schomberg - Fragment der Dissertation vom April 2001 - onliveversion (c) Heiko Schomberg". www.heiko-schomberg.de. Retrieved 2023-03-12.

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