Newsletter International: English Edition

June 2010

DIE LINKE congress – new dual leadership elected | Bisky: Left policy is needed | Lafontaine: DIE LINKE – Party of peace, social justice and democracy | Lötzsch and Ernst interviewed | Gysi in the Bundestag: Afghanistan policy bound to fail | SPD and Greens deny DIE LINKE cooperation | 8 May Liberation Day

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April 2010

Left MPs pay tribute to Kundus victims | Important step towards world nuclear disarmament | Lafontaine’s retreat break for DIE LINKE | Solidarity with Greek protests | Anti-fascists thwart biggest Nazi march in Dresden | Left alternatives to Year against poverty and social marginalization

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January 2010

Tens of thousands commemorate Karl and Rosa | EL meeting: Next congress in Paris in December | Bisky interviewed on EL priorities | DIE LINKE for pullout from Afghanistan this year | Labour market still bleak | Spreading peace in Afghanistan

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October 2009

German general elections – Promises promises | DIE LINKE ten-point programme | Bundestag party constituted | Left politicians welcome mayor's disarmament initiative | Bisky on Irish referendum | Lafontaine: War is no political instrument

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June 2009

DIE LINKE: respectable result but miles off the target | Bisky, Lafontaine, Zimmer and Bartsch comment on election outcome | DIE LINKE MEPs introduce themselves | Bartsch optimistic about next elections | DGB and DIE LINKE want good prospects for people | EU needs to support Obama's disarmament initiatives | Solidarity with Cuban Five

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May 2009

Tens of thousands marchers for disarmament, against war and nuclear weapons | Protectionism and national paltering wrong way out of crisis | Getting rid of nuclear weapons long overdue | Lafontaine: We take exception to this NATO | Disarmament and arms control pillars of peaceoriented foreign policy | Enough food for all

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February 2009

Tens of thousands commemorate Luxemburg and Liebknecht | Bisky to head DIE LINKE European election ticket | Lead motion to election congress | Much money for banks – little for jobs | Nationalisation of banks long overdue | Gysi on Obama | Stop far-Right extremism

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October 2008

Demos in Berlin and Stuttgart against war in Afghanistan | EL delegation in China | CSU suffers severe blow | Massive protest against health policy | Lafontaine takes on Finance Minister | Crash programme to help with financial crisis | Comprehensive programme against wrong economic policy

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September 2008

DIE LINKE calls for nuclear-weapons-free zone | No additional security through US missile shield | Bisky advocates political conflict-settlement in Caucasus | EU should become peaceful, social and democratic union | Reflecting 21st August 1968 | Congrats for Nelson Mandela | DIE LINKE congress picks Lafontaine as top candidate in Saarland

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June 2008

Content: First DIE LINKE Congress in Cottbus | Bisky advocates resistance to UN Charter violations|  Lafontaine: Major and severe tasks ahead of us | Full support for Gregor Gysi | Left Youth Association meets | Students’ association: The last battle is our to win | European vanguard against arms drive

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May 2008

Content: 1st DIE LINKE Congress on 24 and 25 May | Executive Board lead motion to the congress | Tens of thousands march at Easter | Bisky on german party landscape | Lafontaine about the SPD and his new political home | Stop arms production! | Bisky and Gysi commemorate Erwin Geschonneck

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March 2008

Content: DIE LINKE succeeds significantly in West German elections | EL Chair at congress of Greek left party | Moral standards go down the drain | Government more and more mired | in Afghan war | Kosovo – first full-fledged EU colony | Stop plans for nuclear first strike | Socialist policy is European

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January 2008

Content: 1st EL board meeting after congress in Prague | EL board for European minimum wages | Tens of thousands at Luxemburg's and Liebknecht's graves | Bisky about board meeting | Nokia faces criticism | 2007 – Year of DIE LINKE | Lafontaine: looking back and ahead

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December 2007

Content: 2nd EL congress – appeal adopted | Bisky elected new EL Chair in Prague | Left conference on alternatives to climate policy in Hamburg | DIE LINKE shows solidarity with railway engine drivers | 2.5 million poor children in Germany | Demographic change and how to handle it | EL conference on cooperation in eastern and western Europe

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October 2007

Content: Afghanistan demo in Berlin | Socialist Congress in historic place in Stuttgart | DIE LINKE score – taking stock after 100 days | Protests – Defence Minister botch-up | Iran nuclear conflict – Germany falls in with US | Disgrace – 2 million poor children in Germany | StopEPA campaign – hearing in Brussels

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June 2007

Content: Left Party and WASG united – new party DIE LINKE founded | Gysi: Unity of Left essential part of German unity | Bisky: We don’t want less nor more than a more just society and we insist on a peaceful society. | Lafontaine: Democracy is in a crisis. Germany needs a democratic renewal. | 2500 new members in one week – four projects of the new party | Critical comment on German EU-Presidency

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