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On 24.10.2011 08:55, duh-roo wrote:
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A Bundestag delegate quoted in the article affirmed that the program is
"fully at the height of the times" and "is consequently anticapitalist and
antimilitarist. For the first time the question of property is posed as the
core of left politics." And specific demands of the program include "the
nationalization of banks, a ban on temp work, and a statutory minimum income
of 60% of average income... In the foreign policy section of the program,
The Left demands the withdrawal from the military structures of NATO and the
end of all foreign deployments by the armed forces."
And this from a party with an electoral base and seats in the federal
government. If this was indeed made possible by OWS, it seems they've taken
OWS and run ahead a ways... [insert swipe at OWS anti-parliamentarianism
here]
As an active participant in the pre-conference discussions I can say
that the basis had been laid in advance for the program as it was
adopted. What the OWS movement did was ensure that the mood in the
conference was more radical thus preventing the "realos" from watering
down any of the key points. It also ensured that the eventual vote was
97% in favour and not perhaps between 85 and 90%, which would have
allowed the bourgeois press to continue their campaign asserting that
the party is fundamentally split.
The Bundestag member quoted above is Sevim Dagdelen, one of our
representatives of Turkish origin.
Einde O'Callaghan
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