DIE LINKE

Die Linke’s candidate for Lichtenberg, party chair Ines Schwerdtner, speaks with potential voters on the street.
Olaf Krostitz

Another Way of Doing Politics

Boris Kanzleiter
Europe: ruin or renewal
Die Linke’s successful campaign in East Berlin epitomizes the changes sweeping through the party By the weekend before the German federal election, it had become clear that something big was underway in Berlin’s Lichtenberg district. On Friday afternoon, hundreds of people — members and non-members alike, students and workers, ranging in age from 18 to 80 — assembled in the event hall of the VORWÄRTS housing cooperative in Friedrichsfelde for Die Linke’s final campaign rally with the district’s direct candidate, the newly appointed party chairwoman ...
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How Die Linke Turned the Tide

Ines Schwerdtner, Jan van Aken
Elections and parties
Version française ci-dessous Co-chairs Ines Schwerdtner and Jan van Aken on the party’s remarkable comeback When we announced our candidacy for the chair of Die Linke last summer, the situation seemed hopeless: the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) had split from the party and we were limping into the state elections in eastern Germany. Last Sunday, only six months later, we won just under 8.8 percent in the federal elections. That was no coincidence. The party congress in Halle already signalled the beginning of a transformation. The mood was great, ...
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The 2025 German Election: First Impressions and Implications

Moritz Warnke
Elections and parties
Version française ci-dessous   The 2025 German federal election, held some eight months ahead of schedule following the collapse of the governing coalition late last year, largely proceeded as expected, with losses for the coalition partners, gains for the centre-right, and big gains for the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD). Only the impressive result for Die Linke proved to be a real surprise. At 82.5 percent (+6.2 percent), voter turnout was significantly higher than in the last federal elections (2021: ...
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Lukas Schön, Ralf Suikat, Christian Leye, Amira Mohamed Ali and Sarah Wagenknecht stand next to each other before the press conference on the founding of Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht, 23 October 2023.
Lukas Schön, Ralf Suikat, Christian Leye, Amira Mohamed Ali and Sarah Wagenknecht stand next to each other before the press conference on the founding of

“A Heavy Blow”

Heinz Bierbaum, Loren Balhorn
Elections and parties
Sahra Wagenknecht’s decision to leave Die Linke brings clarity, but at a high cost Following years of turmoil, a resolution has finally been reached inside Die Linke, the democratic socialist party in the German parliament closely linked to the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. Sahra Wagenknecht, previously Die Linke’s parliamentary co-speaker and one of its best-known faces, announced her resignation from the party on Monday together with nine other MPs. They will now form a new organization, Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW), to prepare the launch of a new party in early 2024....
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