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The '''Marx-Lenin-Luxemburg-Front''' was a resistance movement founded by [[Henk Sneevliet]], [[Willem Dolleman]] and [[Abraham Menist]], some months after the German invasion of the [[Netherlands]] on 10 May 1940. It lasted until April 1942, when the entire leadership was arrested by the Germans, who executed them on 12 April of the same year.

The Marx-Lenin-Luxemburg-Front, or MLL-Front, was the clandestine successor to Sneevliet's political party, the [[Revolutionary Socialist Party (Netherlands)|''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 [[Nazism|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 ''Comité 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.

==Sources==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20050219105608/http://www.groene.nl/2002/0215/rz_sneevliet.html De Groene 13-04-2002: Profiel: Henk Sneevliet (in Dutch)]
* [http://en.internationalism.org/books/dgcl/4/10_03.html From the RSAP to the ‘Marx-Lenin-Luxembourg Front’: The Sneevliet Tendency]
* [http://www.marxists.org/history/etol/document/holland/dutch01.htm Dutch Trotskyism in World War II (Part 1)]
* [http://hdl.handle.net/10622/COLL00167 Audiocollectie Wim Bot over Marx-Lenin-Luxemburg-front en Comité van Revolutionaire Marxisten] at the [[International Institute of Social History]]

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