Re: Euro Greens & the Third Way (was Re: Rain)

["Johannes Schneider" <Johannes.Schneider@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dennis R Redmond wrote:

> On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> > weapons in Western Europe, etc.  That was then.  Now, the German
> > Green Party is mainly a party of humanitarian imperialism & Green
> > scissors of neoliberalism that cuts waste from the old welfare state.
>
> Nonsense. They're a party with a range of political opinions, some pretty
> close to neolib, most pretty close to social democracy, and some close to
> a kind of high-tech Eurosocialism. For a sample of the latter, see:
>
> http://www.ilka.org
>
> It's in German, but Ilka is one of the many younger Green activists (all
> of 22... makes me feel positively ancient) who demonstrated
> against NATO's lovely little bombfest in the Balkans, and is in
> general carrying the Seattle torch in Strasbourg.

Dennis,

are you just misinformed or are you trying to deceive a largely
North-American audience here?

Ilka Schröder is totally isolated within the Greens in the European
parliament and the Green party as a whole. She is just waiting to be kicked
out. E.g. refer to:

http://www.szarchiv.de/REGIS_A11442786;internal&action=body.action
http://www.jungewelt.de/2000/10-26/002.shtml

What is represantative for mainstream Green politics you can read here:
http://de.fc.yahoo.com/t/tarif.html

The Greens are demanding now wages below the standards reached through
collective bargainining! Neoliberal positions are now the mainstream witin
the Green party.