Oskar Lafontaine

                   

[The Islamist-Leftist] Allied Menace

danielpipes.org     Jul 14, 2008          

This version includes some materials cut from the published National Review version.] "Here are two brother countries, united like a single fist," said socialist Hugo Chávez during a visit to Tehran last November, celebrating...                

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The Islamist-Leftist Allied Menace

hnn.us     Jul 7, 2008   1 related          

"Here are two brother countries, united like a single fist," said socialist Hugo Chávez during a visit to Tehran last November, celebrating his alliance with Islamist Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Spark, youth paper of Britain's...                

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negative potential: Fake Anti-Racists

blogsport.de     Jul 5, 2008          

Fake Anti-Racists Germany's Left Party issues a call to protest asylum policies that their own chairman Oskar Lafontaine supports. By Markus Ströhlein The disinterested have to be mobilized for action. On the occasion of the...                

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Pipes on the International Alliance between Islamic Jihad and the Radical Left

theaugeanstables.com     Jul 2, 2008   6 related          

Daniel Pipes has an important discussion on the links between forces that consider themselves radical "progressive" or communist (everyone knows they want what'd good for everyone) and Islamist movements, especially as...                

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German Social Democrats in free-fall Right-wing seeks to topple party chairman

wsws.org     Jun 28, 2008   2 related          

Right-wing seeks to topple party chairman By Ulrich Rippert 28 June 2008 In the past few weeks, longstanding conflicts in the Social Democratic Party have reached a boiling point. The decline in the fortunes of the SPD can be...                

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Leader of German's Social Democrats denounces 'cowardly' critics

iht.com     Jun 22, 2008   2 related          

The leader of The Germany Social Democrats accused internal party critics of cowardice on Saturday in an unusually combative speech aimed at silencing his doubters and rallying the party from record-low poll ratings. Kurt Beck,...                

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The uncompromising 'secret chancellor' of Germany's left

ft.com     Jun 17, 2008   3 related          

By Lionel Barber, Bertrand Benoit and Hugh Williamson in,Berlin Oskar Lafontaine, the man the German media dubthe country's "secret chancellor", is in a bullish mood. Tie-less and relaxed in his cramped parliamentary office,...                

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The Rüttgers effect

economist.com     Jun 12, 2008          

How North Rhine-Westphalia's premier tugs his party leftwardsA FEW people loom larger over Germany than their jobs seem to justify. Oskar Lafontaine, co-chairman of the Left Party, frightens rivals into bowing towards his...                

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German Social Democratic Party in crisis

wsws.org     Jun 11, 2008   2 related          

By Dietmar Henning 10 June 2008 The so-called “Future Convention” held by the Social Democratic Party in the city of Nuremberg on Saturday May 31 revealed the true extent of the crisis gripping the SPD after ten years in...                

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GERMANY: Germany: ‘We have the wind of history in our sails’

greenleft.org.au     Jun 1, 2008          

GERMANY Germany: ‘We have the wind of history in our sails’ After a year of stellar successes, almost 600 delegates from Germany’s new left-wing party, Die Linke, came together for the party’s first ever congress, held in the east...                

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