Germany's new peace party: Sevim Dagdelen speaks to the Morning Star
Ben Chacko interviews an MP of the new Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance ahead of its founding convention this weekend
The welcome news that Cuba has finally been removed from the State Sponsors of Terrorism list is tempered by the fact that Donald Trump, the man who put it there, is returning to the White House, warns NATASHA HICKMAN
Thanks to impressive progress in Britain with wind and solar generation, clean electricity now costs a fraction of the price of gas — yet the current system keeps bills artificially high to protect fossil fuels, writes TOM HARDY
By spreading race-based conspiracy theories, the billionaire tycoon turned right-wing provocateur has been seriously undermining the case against those who really did let victims of the grooming gangs down, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
Many Western countries are grappling with deep political instability. What are the causes of this, and what could be a possible way forward? asks MARC VANDEPITTE
KEITH BENNETT explains why, despite its present meagre economic outcomes, an honest and fruitful partnership with China is worth pursuing
Nick Wright talks to photographer and author JANINA STRUK
THIS weekend the founding convention of the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance for Reason and Justice (Bundnis Sahra Wagenknecht, or BSW) will put Germany’s newest political formation firmly on the map.
For a brand new party formed of 10 MPs who have quit the Left party (Die Linke), primarily over its increasingly pro-war stance, it’s doing well: one voting intentions poll this week put it on 14 per cent, equal to the Social Democrats of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, ahead of his coalition partners the Greens (on 12) and the Free Democrats (on 4), and with more than three times the support of the party they have just left, which trailed on 3 per cent.
More from this author
Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO reports from the annual Rosa Luxemburg Conference held last weekend in Berlin
Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO says the status quo cannot last – but those currently poised to replace it would usher in a nightmarish new era
Similar stories
Anti-imperialist organisation Liberation conducts a Q&A with German MP SEVIM DAGDELEN on the attitudes of the ‘war-drunk’ main German political parties, Nato policy-makers’ detachment from reality and the prospect of bringing about a common platform for de-escalation
German Communist Party leader PATRIK KOBELE speaks to Morning Star editor Ben Chacko about rising repression and the domestic ramifications of Germany's drive to war
BEN CHACKO reports from the debates at the annual Rosa Luxemburg Conference in Berlin, where speakers were united in opposition to warmongering and the far right