Christa Luft News Today

The Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) founded its first regional organisation last Saturday in Chemnitz, Saxony. It stands in the long, right-wing traditions of the Left Party in that state.

The congress had nothing to do with left-wing politics, let alone “socialism.” In the midst of the eruption of the class struggle worldwide, and increasingly brutal wars, the speakers explicitly rejected any struggle for socialism.

Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the former East Germany remembers the deliberate, immediate destruction of industry and jobs for the profit of West German firms and money-makers. East Germans still want to know how this was allowed to happen.