[The Liberal mainstream are worried about the rise of a genuine left wing party that looks after the interests of working people in Germany. The latest ploy, used recently by the Guardian is to describe the BSW as ‘far right’. Extracts from recent BSW bulletins expose this for the lie that it is. 

What liberals most fear is social justice and peace.]

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State elections in Thuringia and Saxony: historic success for our new party!

With 11.8 per cent in Saxony and 15.8 per cent in Thuringia, we have achieved double-digit results from a standing start – a historic success that is unique in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany. We would like to thank all voters!

These state elections are a clear rebuff to the traffic light coalition in Berlin. The waste of taxpayers’ money on even more weapons, the sanctions policy, rising energy prices and the neglect of our schools – this cannot go on! It is time for change.

The BSW convenes its first expert commission.

The BSW already identifies climate protection as an important topic in its founding programme. It is therefore not surprising that this first expert council is focussing on precisely this issue. Its remit is to develop a serious alternative to the chaotic climate policy of the traffic light system, one that shows a socially and economically realistic path to climate neutrality in Germany based on the principles of reason and justice.
Convened by the party executive, the expert council is to develop recommendations for the BSW’s programme in the area of climate protection and energy by the end of October, which are to be incorporated into the party’s work on the 2025 Bundestag election programme. 

Instead of toiling until death, better pensions for a Lifetime’s Work

This is the result of a new enquiry by our party leader Sahra Wagenknecht to the German government. What a scandal! 1.08 million pensioners are expected to exist on 1200 euros per month.
It is unacceptable that 1.08 million people who have worked for decades and paid into the pension fund are being fobbed off with such meagre pensions that are not enough to live on! The traffic light government (SPD, FDP, Greens) is ignoring this mass poverty in old age.

We say put an end to it! The pension system must be turned on its head again. We need a pension reform modelled on the Austrian system. In Austria, almost everyone in employment pays into the statutory pension fund, including civil servants. As a result, the average pension for long-term pensioners there is on average 800 euros higher. We also need a tax-free allowance on pensions of €2000 per month.

The BSW will only take part in a regional government that clearly opposes the planned stationing of US missiles in Germany that greatly imperils us.

Sahra Wagenknecht is therefore calling for a rejection of the plans to station new US medium-range missiles in Germany as a condition for a coalition with the BSW at state level: ‘It has caused great irritation among BSW supporters that the Prime Minister of Saxony, Michael Kretschmer, recently described the stationing of US medium-range missiles in Germany as “absolutely right”.’
In July, SPD Defence Minister Boris Pistorius announced that US long-range weapons – including Tomahawk cruise missiles – would be stationed on German soil for the first time since the Cold War. An agreement to this effect is due to come into force in 2026, after which Russia threatened to respond militarily to the planned deployment.
BSW party chairwoman Wagenknecht commented: ‘These weapons do not close a defence gap, but are offensive weapons that would make Germany a primary target for Russian nuclear missiles. There are reasons why no other European country has stationed such missiles on its territory.’
We need diplomacy and negotiations instead of more and more weapons that bring us closer to the danger of war!

INSA survey: 68% of Germans in favour of peace negotiations!

The majority of citizens want peace negotiations with Russia. According to a recent INSA survey commissioned by Sahra Wagenknecht together with Alice Schwarzer, 68 per cent of respondents are in favour. Only one in five is absolutely or somewhat against. 65 per cent would be in favour of the West offering Russia a stop to arms deliveries in return for a ceasefire. In East Germany, as many as 79 per cent are in favour of a ceasefire. Only 28 per cent of respondents consider the diplomatic efforts of the traffic light to be sufficient to avert the threat of war from Germany.
The figures confirm this: The majority of the population has a different view of the war in Ukraine than the German government, the CDU and the mainstream media. While the established parties are focussing on more and more arms deliveries and thus only dragging Germany deeper into the war, the majority of Germans want peace negotiations, fewer weapons and more diplomacy. Foreign policy from Scholz to Merz has no democratic backing. As BSW, we made it clear before the elections in Thuringia and Saxony: we will only participate in a state government that takes a clear stance in favour of diplomacy and against the threat of war. Because we expect the wishes of the vast majority of people to be honoured. That is democracy.