A New World Order?

Ukraine, Iran, Gaza: Today’s brutal wars are part of a global realignment. Germany and Europe stand at a crossroads: Are we increasingly becoming an appendage of the imperial foreign policy of the declining world power, the USA, which threatens to plunge the world into chaos and is driving our economic decline? Or do we commit to an independent German and European policy that puts our interests first and advocates for peaceful international relations? What role Europe could play as a mediating force for peace in a multipolar world, and what the German government would need to do to ensure that Germany no longer stands in the way of such a development – I discuss these and other questions in a new episode of “Sahra meets” with political scientist, Europe expert and journalist Ulrike Guérot.

Watch the full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSHxttqJFqY

No to bombing Iran!

Bombs on civilians, black rain over Tehran, millions displaced – the war waged by the US and Israel in violation of international law is a horrific crime against the people of Iran. At the same time, we in Germany are feeling the consequences: energy prices are skyrocketing and threaten to cripple the economy and consumers.

We at BSW want this to stop at once! Join us on Saturday, 21 March, at our rally in Berlin:

⏱️ 2 pm

📍 Potsdamer Platz

📢 Speakers: Fabio De Masi, Amira Mohamed Ali & Michael Lüders

We say: No to the war against Iran! Peace instead of war inflation!

No to unaffordable petrol prices!

Italy and Austria are cutting fuel tax. The German government is letting the public be fleeced at the petrol pump. Enough is enough! The fact that petrol would cost less than a euro in Germany if it were completely tax-free highlights the government’s failure. We need an emergency brake on fuel prices now: cut VAT, scrap the CO2 levy, reduce energy tax, and enforce a price cap! No petrol station in Germany should be allowed to sell fuel for more than 1.50 euros. Furthermore, we urgently need to buy oil and gas again from wherever it is cheapest and most readily available. It’s mad: even the US is easing sanctions against Iran in the midst of its own war, because it is in their interest that energy prices do not skyrocket even further. But even after four years of proxy war in Ukraine, the German government is sticking to the failed sanctions against Russia, even though they are driving our economy to ruin. The fact that, as a result of the war in Iran, Qatar – which was supposed to compensate for the loss of Russian imports – is now also failing to supply gas to Germany shows all the more clearly: it is high time to end this sanctions madness!

Time to repair relations with Russia and put an end to German deindustrialisation!

The energy policies of the EU and the German government are an absolute disaster! In last year’s ‘tariff deal’, Brussels agreed to import overpriced American fracking gas worth 750 billion euros. Now, in the midst of the energy price crisis triggered by the war in Iran, the US is threatening to cut off supplies unless the EU accepts Trump’s trade diktat word for word. 

We are now paying the price for the fact that Merz, von der Leyen and Co. have driven us ever deeper into dependence on American energy imports, thereby making us subject to the whims of the megalomaniac US President. It is in the vital interests of Germany and Europe to source energy from as many sources as possible and, above all, to buy it again where it is cheapest. 

Instead of allowing itself to be blackmailed by Trump, the German government should now enter into negotiations with Russia to once again procure cheap gas via Nord Stream – ideally as part of a ceasefire in Ukraine. Without lower energy prices, Germany’s deindustrialisation will be unstoppable!

26 March 2026  Newsletter

This is Sahra Wagenknecht’s newsletter. In it, I provide regular updates on my activities and current political issues.

Billions spent on rearmament, a ban on combustion engines, uncontrolled migration: for years, politicians have been governing without regard for the interests of the people. Instead of taking citizens’ concerns seriously, opinions that deviate from the political and media mainstream are marginalised and stigmatised. Following the unspeakable ‘traffic light’ coalition, the black-red government under Chancellor Merz – which is no better – is in the process of squandering our country’s future. Can Germany still be saved? How can we explain the failure of the ruling politicians, who have apparently lost all touch with the people? What needs to change for democracy in Germany to work again? And what responsibility lies with the media, which increasingly engages in hack reporting rather than critical journalism? I discuss these and other questions in a new episode of “Sahra meets” with Peter Hahne, a long-standing ZDF journalist and presenter as well as a multiple bestselling author.