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$Unique_ID{COW00267}
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$Title{Austria
Organisations not affiliated to the Federal Youth Union}
$Subtitle{}
$Author{Federal Press Service}
$Affiliation{Embassy of Austria, Washington DC}
$Subject{organisation
sports
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austrian
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$Date{1989}
$Log{}
Country: Austria
Book: Austria Culture and Society 1945-1955-2000
Author: Federal Press Service
Affiliation: Embassy of Austria, Washington DC
Date: 1989
Organisations not affiliated to the Federal Youth Union
Aktion Kritischer Schuler (AKS) - Critical Pupils' Movement
This pupils' organisation is devoted to the implementation of basic
rights for schoolchildren on the basis of socialist ideology:
- freedom of opinion and the press
- pupil participation on all levels
- pupil participation in election of school authorities
- right to strike for school representatives
- introduction of the comprehensive school as a standard model
- improvement in the availability of teachers
- elimination of the stratified school system.
The AKS provides the majority of pupil representatives at Austrian
schools. It maintains a broad-based information service by distributing
regular publications.
The AKS office has the address: A-1070 Vienna, Neustiftgasse 3, tel.: (02
22) 93 41 23.
Cartellverband der katholischen osterreichischen Studentenverbindungen
(OCV - Cartel Association of Catholic Austrian Student Unions)
The OCV is the umbrella organisation of 47 colour-bearing student unions
located in all Austrian university cities and in Wiener Neustadt, Baden and
St. Polten (Lower Austria) and Feldkirch (Vorarlberg). Of these unions, 24
are in Vienna, six in Innsbruck, four in Graz, two in Linz, three in Salzburg,
one in Klagenfurt, two in Leoben (Styria), two in Wiener Neustadt, one in
Baden, one in Feldkirch and one in St. Polten. These unions are largely
autonomous and have their own administrative structure but comply with the
joint statutes of the OCV. A union which is affiliated to the OCV must
explicitly be based upon the principles of religion, fatherland, science and
comradeship. Roman Catholicism and the derivative Catholic world-view provide
the intellectual foundations of the OCV. It is committed to the ideals of
freedom, justice and human dignity. The OCV and its affiliated unions are
democratic in structure but have no party political allegiances, although the
majority of their members tend to be associated with the Austrian People's
Party (OVP - equivalent to Christian Democrats).
Membership of the OCV currently stands at around 10,600. It is made up
of the OCV Student Association with some 2,700 members, and the group of
former students numbering some 7,900. The supreme body is the Cartel Assembly,
comprising representatives of the individual unions (CVV). This body elects
the Association's executive board, which consists of the Chairman, the
Presidents of the Student Association and the former students, and officials
responsible for specific fields (university matters, educational questions and
so on). The day-to-day business management is in the hands of a General
Secretary.
The OCV's official publication is "Academia", a monthly journal of
politics and culture.
The OCV office has the address: A-1080 Vienna, Lerchenfelder Strasse 14,
tel.: (02 22) 42 16 22.
Freie Osterreichische Jugend, Bewegung fur Sozialismus (FOJ/BFS - Free
Austrian Youth Organisation/Movement for Socialism)
This organisation describes itself as having ties with Marxism. Its
membership throughout Austria is approximately 500. The organisation is made
up of provincial associations, and its supreme body is the Federal Congress.
It publishes weekly newsletters.
The FOJ/BFS office has the address: A-1040 Vienna, Belvederegasse 10,
tel.: (02 22) 65 19 52.
Kommunistische Jugend Osterreichs (KJO) - Communist Youth Organisation
The KJO describes itself as a youth organisation seeking to bring about
social change. It aims to mobilise large sections of the younger generation in
education and working life and thus to implement their basic rights: the right
to democratic, future-oriented education, to employment and to social
security; the right to equality, co-determination and democracy in all aspects
of life; the right to meaningful leisure-time activities, recreation and
sport; the right to a life in peace; and the right to a clean and healthy
environment.
The KJO considers that these rights can be implemented permanently and
in their entirety only on the basis of fundamental social changes in Austria.
Thus, together with the Communist Party of Austria (KPO), the KJO sees as
its goals: ending the power of private ownership, nationalising the means of
production and instituting a socialist society. The KJO believes that, to
achieve these ends, it will be necessary to terminate the system of social
partnership which, the KJO maintains, promotes the illusion that a
partnership exists between employers and employees - an illusion which also
discourages young people from fighting consistently and openly for their own
interests.
The KJO believes that before nuclear war has been prevented no other
objective is attainable. It plays an active role in the Austrian peace
movement, seeing the "feasible and winnable" nuclear war proclaimed by the US
government as a threat to the continued existence of mankind.
The KJO carries on the tradition of anti-fascist resistance against
Hitler into the present day.
A major part in the work of the KJO groups is played not only by
discussion and political activity but also by leisure time spent as a group.
The KJO's newspaper is entitled "Explosiv". It is published eleven times a
year, is obtainable from all KJO groups and is also available on
subscription.
The KJO is affiliated to the World Union of Democratic Youth and thus
maintains ties with liberation movements in developing countries, youth
organisations in the socialist countries and democratic and communist youth
organisations throughout the world.
The KJO office has the address: A-1200 Vienna, Hochstadtplatz 3, tel.:
(02 22) 33 56 01.
Osterreichische Landjugend (OLJ - Austrian Rural Youth Organisation)
The OLJ is an organisation which "is consciously independent of
political parties and religious communities". It has 63,000 members in
provincial administrative units and local groups and is thus one of the
largest youth organisations in rural Austria. The larger provinces also have
regional intermediate groups. The supreme body is the Federal Assembly, whose
18 to 22 members are recruited from the provincial presidents, the provincial
chairwomen and the Federal Executive Committee elected from among their ranks.
The Executive Committee consists of the Federal President, the Federal
Chairwoman, one deputy for each and the Federal Managing Director.
The purpose of the OLJ is to foster extramural youth education in rural
areas, with the emphasis on vocational and civic further education, active
recreational programmes, and efforts to enhance the social and cultural
conditions for the younger members of the rural population. This is achieved
by the implementation of educational measures (courses, seminars in
agriculture and forestry, rural domestic science, political education and
sports). There are also vocational competitions, social and cultural events at
village level and a number of leisure-time activities.
The OLJ publishes the monthly magazine "Landjugend", as well as
information leaflets and circulars on topical issues with the various
provinces.
The OLJ is affiliated to the European Committee of Young Farmers and the
Working Group Rural Youth within the European Farming Association.
The OLJ office has the address: A-1014 Vienna, Lowelstrasse 12, tel.:
(02 22) 63 07 41/521.
Osterreichischer Bauorden (OBO - Austrian Building