The current edition of the UK Socialist Worker also has a sympathetic article. Read in here.
THE LEFT is polling beetween 10 to 12%. In former east Germany it is polling 27%. Approximately one quarter of current SPD (The German equivalent of the ALP) say they would consider voting for THE LEFT in the future. The last line of THE LEFT'S programme states: "Together we fight to ensure that capitalism is not the last word in the history books".
There are lessons to be learnt from those who are succeeding and those who are failing to establish a future for the left in the 21st century.
I note that in Australia we still have a plethora of left groups that often spend more time and energy fighting each other as they do criticising the RIGHT.
Perhaps we could have some discussion and evaluation of the efforts at regroupment in various countries and and how this can assist the growth of a UNITED Left in Australia.
The LEFT united may have some chance of success.
Of course the flipside is: The LEFT divided will forever be defeated.
- A Big Step towards Left Unity in Germany by Victor Grossman
The Left (German: Die Linke or DIE LINKE.) is a German political party that came into being as a merger of The Left Party.PDS and Labour and Social Justice – The Electoral Alternative on 16 June 2007. Its leaders are Oskar Lafontaine and Lothar Bisky.According to its own statistics, it is the "third largest political party in Germany" The party has, as of June 2007, 71,800 members (60,300 came from PDS and 11,500 from WASG).The discussion continues on the GLW list if we can get it out of rewind....
