Jean Frey gives his impressions of the nature and role of the so-called 'Anti-Germans' on the German left. As I became politicised, in particular within Linksjugend, the youth organisation of Die Linke, I came across these militant nationalistic and pro-war activists at an early stage. I first had personal experience of BAK Shalom members at the ...
The resignation of Oskar Lafontaine is a serious blow to the German left party. Tina Becker reports Since Die Linke shook the German political scene by achieving a tremendous 11.9% in the national election of September 2009 (leading to the election of 76 of its members to parliament), it has been followed keenly by the German ...
January 18 saw one of the hardest fought federal state election campaigns in Germany’s recent history. For months, the question of who would govern Hesse with its six million inhabitants (and its capital, Frankfurt) made big waves across the whole country. At the centre of it all was the young left party, Die Linke. CS ...