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Selected News and Documents
Conspicuous Silence of Westerwelle about Human Rights Issues in South America
The vice-chairman of DIE LINKE, Klaus Ernst, accuses Guido Westerwelle of pursuing a "one-sided fixation of foreign policy on business interests”. According to Ernst, the fact that Westerwelle did not make any statements about issues of democracy or human rights while on his South America tour is significant. He pointed out that there were striking parallels between the "eloquent silence of Westerwelle regarding the putsch in Honduras” and the activism of the FDP-leaning Friedrich Naumann Foundation for political forces which supported the coup in Honduras. Ernst states: more
Members' Referendum concerning Preparation of Federal Party Congress in Rostock
Proposers: Regional party organizations of Baden-Württemberg, Berlin, Brandenburg, Bremen, Hamburg, Rhineland-Palatine, Saxony-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein more
No to War! No More Soldiers!
On the government explanation of Afghanistan, states Christine Buchholz, member of the Executive Board of the Party DIE LINKE: more
Hartz IV Belongs Atop the Trash Heap of History
"The Federal Constitutional Court has finally renounced the national government in its boundaries. It is a scandal that the national government remain so inactive for so many years, and that they dismissed any criticism of the Hartz IV standards from the table, and needed a ruling form the High Court to realize that Hartz IV is nothing more than Poverty per Law," commented Klaus Ernst, Co-Chairman of DIE LINKE, on the decision of the Federal Constitutional Court. He declares: more
Return to the Political Debate, Instead of Plump Prohibition Rhetoric
"There are suspicions, that in light of the Parliamentary elections in May, a disagreeable political opponent, the third most powerful force in the Czech Parliament, could be cleared out of the way," said member of the Executive Board for DIE LINKE, Jan Korte, in regards to the discussion of a ban of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSCM). He declares: more
No trivialization of the dangers of right extremists - No Criminalization of the democratic protest against Nazis
At the Holocaust Remembrance day commemoration on January 27th, the Chairman of the Party DIE LINKE, Lothar Bisky declares: more
Return to Political Business at Hand
At today's session of the Executive Board of Directors of the party DIE LINKE, the following statement was unanimously released: more
Election Fraud Uncovered – Repression From Kurdish Representatives Must End
In the past few days, Turkish police have arrested over 30 Kurdish politicians. Several of which are democratically elected Mayors and members of Parliament. Jürgen Klute, a member of the party executive committee speaks on the matter (MdEP): more
Obama fails to meet hopes
On the decision of the Obama administration not to sign the Ottawa Treaty on mine ban, Helmut Scholz (MEP), member of DIE LINKE Party Executive Board, announces: more
On the National Elections to the Bundestag and the regional elections in the states of Brandenburg and Schleswig-Holstein
Information of the DIE LINKE. Department of International Policy more