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The meltdown of Die Linke
Bundestag member SEVIM DAGDELEN describes how the Left party’s pro-war stance has created an urgent need for a political force that fights for social justice and peace and pushes back against the catastrophic societal course set by the elites
(From left), Lukas Schoen, Amira Mohamed Ali, Sahra Wagenknecht, Ralph Suikat and Christian Leye arrive for a news conference to announce the founding of a precursor to a new party in Berlin, Germany, Monday October 23 2023
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AT THE press conference announcing the new party project, Sahra Wagenknecht commented on the war in the Middle East. She condemned the terror attacks perpetrated by Hamas.
At the same time she described the Gaza Strip as an “open-air prison” and spoke of an “unbearable situation” while calling for a political solution with Palestinians having their own state within a two-state solution.
The chairman of the Die Linke (the Left party) parliamentary group in the German Bundestag, Dietmar Bartsch, criticised this immediately, saying: “I distance myself in the strongest possible terms from the term ‘open-air prison’ used to describe the Gaza Strip at the Wagenknecht press conference.”
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