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Sahra Wagenknecht wants to inject some reason back into German politics with a focus on the working class, but to do that it will also have to take on the Atlanticists running the country into the ground.

BERLIN – Germany’s Left Party is splitting in two. Is it a tragedy or a new hope? After months, in fact years of inner-party squabbling in Germany’s LINKE party (The Left), the die has been cast, the Rubicon crossed, and Sahra Wagenknecht, with nine other Bundestag deputies, has quit the party...

All the phrases about peace and social policy at its conference cannot hide the fact that in all central questions, the Left Party supports the policies of the German government, the European Union and NATO.

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New split from Die Linke accommodating racist arguments will set back German left

The new party is intended to prevent resistance to social decline, poverty, war and oppression from challenging the capitalist social order and uniting with the struggles of the international working class.

Germany’s new political party conceived by lawmaker Sahra Wagenknecht is already overtaking a member of the ruling coalition government in a poll.

Left-wing politician Sahra Wagenknecht has decided to found her own party. She will probably announce this on Monday at the federal press conference, sources close to her have confirmed to SPIEGEL. Monday's announcement is likely to end a years-long dispute between WagenKnecht and her Left Party. Wagen knecht joined the SED in 1989 and was later a member of the PDS and the Left Party, which she left in 2011. The Bundestag member wants to reach out to voters with her new project.

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