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‘Our focus is peace’
Ben Chacko talks to Bundestag member for the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance, SEVIM DAGDELEN, about the continuing war in Ukraine, the economic crisis, controversies over immigration, the failings of Germany’s liberalised prostitution policy, and the importance of free speech
HARD-HITTING: Sevim Dagdelen
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NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
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FOR SEVIM DAGDELEN, the most important issue in next month’s German election is peace, and the only pro-peace party is the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW).
Dagdelen may be the most familiar in Britain of the 10 MPs who broke with Die Linke (The Left) to form BSW over a year ago, having played a role in the campaign to free Julian Assange and holding the party’s foreign policy brief. I met her last month at her Bundestag office to get her take on Germany’s political crisis.
“Our focus is peace,” she begins simply. “Stop arming Ukraine. Stop arming Israel. Stop economic sanctions and proxy wars. Pursue diplomacy, detente.”
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