ALFRED MARQUART in dealing with the state administration has, however, lead to a more militant stance. Many CAG's have been forced to turn to illegal action due to massive government attacks and government ignorance. After a long fight against the systematic destruction of an old part of Frankfurt, a decision was made in 1971 to occupy buildings in this threatened part of the town and to fix them up. The local population gave this undertakings its enthusiastic support, though the majority of the squatters were left wingers. It took a huge number of policemen armed with machine guns and backed up by tanks to clear them out. But something unprecedented for Germany then happened: the squatters and the population resisted in the most militant fashion. They used their own power to combat the state's power: they showed that they were unwilling to capitulate without a struggle. The CAG's soon reached the limits of their legal possibjlities and realized that illegal resistance against government decisions would also have to become part of their strug·gle. The occupation of the atomic power plant site in Wyhl as well as occupations in Brokdorf and Grohnde bear witness to this. The more the police tried to hinder and criminalize the anti-nuclear movement, the more it ran into the determined resistance of these groups. When it became clear that West Germany was well on its way to becoming an atomic state, active resistance became clearly necessary. Whoever wants to stop this form of development now and in the future will have to combat government policy. Resistance takes on many different forms, from sit-ins to occupations of construction sites all the way to direct militant attacks on the fortified construction sites of nuclear power plants. Here we must criticize ourselves for the fact that left-wing groups and parties are by far the most militant element in our ranks. This brings about the danger of the isolation of the Left within the anti-nuclear movement, even if resistance against increasing "nuclear fascism" is necessary. "Nevertheless we must' answer: neither battles with the police nor individual acts of violence can bring the nuclear power program to a halt; only a broadly based social movement can do this. That is why the middle-class forms of protest will continue: we have certainly not exausted all the possibilities of civil disobedience. I am refering here to the refusal to pay taxes or to a boycott of electric power bills, actions which are at pre70
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