A month ago, the federal executive board of the Green Youth resigned. Some of those who left now argue like Wagenknecht. At the same time, however, they distance themselves from the BSW founder.
Three former leaders of the Green Youth have reported back with suggestions for a new left-wing politics. In a guest article for the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” Sarah-Lee Heinrich, Katharina Stolla and Svenja Appuhn write that it is right for Sahra Wagenknecht to criticize remote debates about correct language and anti-discrimination and the focus on social issues and the necessary redistribution from top to bottom direct. Unfortunately, the founder of the Alliance Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) decided to “step down” – for example, at the expense of citizens’ benefit recipients and refugees. “She is now leading the culture war that she once criticized from the other side,” write the three ex-Greens.
At the end of September, the former board of directors around Appuhn and Stolla announced that they would first be leaving the party – and then also the Green Youth. The reason: too little left-wing profile among the Greens, too many compromises in the traffic light coalition. The Greens’ youth organization has now elected a new board.
Get closer to the people
The dropouts are currently promoting a new left-wing youth movement under the slogan “Time for something new”. They want to use street festivals, free learning aid for people without a lot of money and other practical activities to get more young people excited about left-wing politics and thus also form a counterweight to the AfD. Around 4,000 people have shown interest in the new movement online so far, says Appuhn when asked. How many of them will ultimately become members is still unclear.
The three authors of the guest article also left open a possible collaboration with the party Die Linke, at whose federal party conference Heinrich appeared as a guest speaker a few days ago. The left is exciting “because it is currently fundamentally changing,” they say. But it still remains to be seen whether it will manage to develop into a party that “exudes that it not only wants to change things, but is also capable of doing so.”
Source: Stern
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