Re: [Marxism] Video: "The Rise of the The Left Party in Germany"

["Lüko Willms" <lueko.willms@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 08:19:34 -0400, Pance Stojkovski wrote:

> The emergence of the Left Party (Linkspartei) in Germany is the most
> significant development of a new political party to the left of social
> democracy in decades in Europe. 

  This party is not "to the left" of social democracy, but "the left of 
social democracy". 

> The formation of the Left Party coincided with the anti-G8 
> mobilisation in Germany a year ago.

  This is a strange notion. It never occurred to me to look for any 
correlation between the two events. 

> It was followed by a startling rise in the opinion polls, 
> and political breakthroughs in West Germany,

  Actually it started with Oskar Lafontaine, former chairperson of SPD, 
former minister of finances in the first Schröder government, and former 
prime minister of Saarland for many years, made a public declaration 
that he would be prepared to serve as candidate for a common slate of 
PDS and WASG in the early elections announced by Schröder in May 2005. 

  Right after that, polls reported that about 18% of the voters were 
prepared to vote for such a combination, but that dropped more and more 
in the approach of the election as the SPD was able -- as usual -- to 
pose as the tool of working people against the threat of the neo-liberal 
attacks on our living standards planned by the Christian Democrats and 
the liberals of the FDP. 


Comradely yours, 
Lüko Willms
Frankfurt, Germany
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visit http://www.mlwerke.de Marx, Engels, Luxemburg, Lenin, Trotzki in German

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