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The new Left Party of Germany and the coming elections | 17 comments (17 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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There was another article yesterday, I think Soj linked to it in his pdb: "The Left Party Puts the Cat among The Pigeons."

Does this Left Party have any kind of serious program for dealing with unemployment and slow growth?

by TGeraghty on Wed Jul 20th, 2005 at 05:09:52 PM EST

Re: The new Left Party of Germany and the coming e (none / 0)

Raise taxes on the rich, bash non-whites. Lafontaine also wants a retroactive referendum on EU enlargement. He used to be a decent left-wing socialist. Now he's a populist playing for both extremes. In state governments I have not noticed anything noteworthy from the PDS.

Minus the snark:
Roll back the SPD government reforms of unemployment and labour law, create a massive employment program, raise taxes on the rich.
For a synopsis of the party positions on various issues see
DIe Positionen der Parteien

by MarekNYC on Wed Jul 20th, 2005 at 07:00:01 PM EST
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