In 2011, some three years after the dissolution
of the KDS (Kampfbund Deutscher Sozialisten/”Struggle League of German
Socialists”) as a nationwide organization, Michael Koth and a handful of associates founded “Anti-Imperialist Platform”, or AIP, in Berlin.
According to an undated interview with
ProMosaik, AIP was founded as a result of the “NATO attack on Libya,” and
its chief objective was the creation of a policy of “comprehension and alliance
among all the anti-imperialist forces from different political orientations.” This would appear to mean left and right united against imperialism, an idea we have heard before.
 A KDS meeting in Leverkusen during 2004. | Image: VS |
Perhaps unsurprisingly, it failed. AIP’s predecessor, KDS had been an integral and active component – albeit occasionally sneered at by hard-core fascists – of the
German neo-Nazi scene. KDS was also a recognized part of the international
neo-Nazi network. And at least it was recognized on some level by the German
authorities; between 1999 and 2008 the Federal Office for the
Protection of the Constitution (Verfassungsschutz) regularly listed KDS as an
anti-constitutional, neo-Nazi entity.
 M. Koth (right) meets the North Korean ambassador in Germany. | Image: AIP |
Now, almost four years after Koth founded his new project, for the first time he and his organization got a call from the DPRK.
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