Sahra Wagenknecht has left Die Linke [The Left] to set up a new economically leftwing, socially rightwing German party to take on the Alternative for Germany (AfD) (Photo: Die Linke)

Germany's new 'left' party — AfD-killer or personality cult?

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by Johannes Fehr, Berlin,

In the 1990s Sahra Wagenknecht was a member of the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS), the successor to the government party in East Germany. The PDS later merged with the West German Labour & Social Alternative (WASG), as a response to the neoliberal reforms of the SPD-Green coalition under Gerhard Schröder, forming today's Die Linke [The Left].

Wagenknecht quickly rose to the top. She was elected with Die Linke to the European and the German parliaments, where she was chairwoman of ...

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Johannes Fehr is vice-chair of the board of the German political party MERA25 in Germany and organising director of its parent group DiEM25 at the European level.

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