Sahra Wagenknecht attends a press conference to launch the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) "Buendnis Sahra Wagenknecht - fuer Vernunft und Gerechtigkeit". The former Left Party politician's "Sahra ...

The new year has not started well for Germany’s ruling “traffic-light” coalition, nor indeed for traffic. On January 8th angry farmers blocked autobahns across the country, even as train drivers ...

When the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) was founded, the World Socialist Web Site explained that the new outfit advocated a “right-wing, pro-capitalist” programme. This has since been confirmed in ...

Sahra Wagenknecht, a longtime icon of hard-left politics in Germany, is stepping down as co-leader of the populist party she founded only last year. On Monday, Wagenknecht, who started out in politics ...

Opinions about leftist leader Sahra Wagenknecht vary widely, but her new namesake party’s success in eastern Germany could change the political landscape of the entire country. The BSW has rapidly ...

The former parliamentary leader of the Left party aims to enter the Bundestag with her namesake Sara Wagenknecht Alliance. But polls suggest the new party, popular in eastern Germany, could fail to ...

Sahra Wagenknecht has announced a new party, which could become another populist force scrambling German politics. By Christopher F. Schuetze Christopher Schuetze reported from Berlin and Jena, in the ...

BERLIN — Listening to Sahra Wagenknecht, Germany’s hard-left icon, you could be forgiven for coming away with the impression that the greatest threat to democracy is “lifestyle leftists” nursing ...