[marxmail] Germany’s Die Linke Takes a Stand

Economic, demographic, environmental, democratic, geopolitical — the
multitudinous crises besetting Germany only seem to deepen by the month.
The situation may be dire, but the resurgence of Die Linke over the past 18
months has established a much needed counterweight to the incessant
right-wing drift of German politics. In August 2026, Die Linke overtook the
SPD in national polling
<https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/sonntagsfrage-umfragen-zu-bundestagswahl-landtagswahl-europawahl-a-944816.html>for
the first time in the party’s history, crossing the 12 percent threshold.
And among younger people in particular
<https://www.economist.com/europe/2026/06/17/germanys-left-wing-die-linke-party-has-won-over-the-young>,
democratic socialism is an increasingly appealing alternative
<https://jacobin.com/2025/02/die-linke-germany-renewal-strategy> to the
mainstream consensus of austerity, militarization and xenophobia—one which
has pushed the catastrophic possibility of the far-right party Alternative
for Germany (AfD) attaining power frighteningly close to reality.

The party’s annual conference, held in June in Potsdam outside of Berlin,
saw the party more energized and unified than at any time since the 2000s.
A mass of new delegates (more than half attending a party conference for
the first time
<https://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1199953.linkspartei-linke-vor-parteitag-das-neue-zeitalter-beginnt-im-juni.html>)
revealed the changes undergone by the party’s base, which recently doubled
its membership to 126,000: there were more women, young people, and those
with a family history of migration, more West Germans, and more wearing the
Palestinian keffiyeh.
*https://portside.org/2026-08-24/germanys-die-linke-takes-stand
<https://portside.org/2026-08-24/germanys-die-linke-takes-stand>*


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