- Marx-Lenin-Luxemburg Front
The Marx-Lenin-Luxemburg-Front was a resistance movement founded by
Henk Sneevliet ,Willem Dolleman andAb Menist , some months after the German invasion ofThe Netherlands on10 May 1940 . It lasted until April1942 , when the entire leadership was arrested by the Germans, who executed them on12 April of the same year.The Marx-Lenin-Luxemburg-Front, or MLL-Front, was the clandestine successor to Sneevliet's political party, the "Revolutionair-Socialistische Arbeiderspartij" (RSAP), which had been disbanded immediately after the German invasion, when Sneevliet had to go into hiding to avoid arrest.
The MLL-Front was largely active as a propaganda group and had its own magazine, "Spartacus", which had a printrun of 5,000 copies and appeared bi-weekly. It was particularly active against the anti-Jewish measures taken by the Nazis and participated in the
1941 February strike against these measures.With the arrest and execution of its leadership in April 1942, the MLL-front split into two on political differences, into the "Comite van Revolutionaire Marxisten" (
Committee of Revolutionary Marxists ) and the "Communistenbond Spartacus" (Communist League Spartacus ). These were far less influential than the MLL-Front was.The MLL-front was one of the first, if not the first major resistance group to start up in the Netherlands in
World War II . At its peak, it may have had some 500 members. Its bi-weekly publication "Spartacus" with a printrun of 5,000 was one of the most influential underground newspapers of the first part of the war; the total printrun of the underground press at this time has been estimated to be about 55,000.ources
* [http://www.groene.nl/2002/0215/rz_sneevliet.html De Groene 13-04-2002: Profiel: Henk Sneevliet (in Dutch)]
* [http://www.revolutionary-history.co.uk/backiss/Vol1/No4/duttrot.html Dutch Trotskyism Part I]
* [http://www.marxists.org/history/etol/document/holland/dutch01.htm Dutch Trotskyism in World War II (Part 1)]
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