Wahlkampf

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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