dissent on Greens

[Doug Henwood]

[This bounced because it had an attachment. I got this info from Janet
Biehl of the Left Green Network in Vermont. She said that one of the
founders of the German Greens - whose name escapes me right now - went over
to the neo-Nazis during the Gulf War for the reason I cited. I'll try to
track down more info.]

Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 10:52:39 +0200
From: Harald Schumann <HSchumann at spiegel.de>
Organization: DER SPIEGEL Redaktionsvertretung Berlin
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Subject: Re: Left and Right converge on Economic Nationalism


>

Doug Henwood wrote:


>  Kind of like the German greens who
> chanted "Germany for the Germans, Turkey for the Turks" during the Gulf
> War. Shows how leftish localism can morph into rightish localism. Not
> always, for sure, but enough to worry about.
>

Sorry to say this, Doug, but thats complete nonsens. The Greens in Germany
sometimes are terrible, especially since they are part of the government.
But they never supported this right-wing, anti-immigrant position. Chanting
"Germany for the Germans..." is typical only for our confused extreme right
movement, which fortunately has no serious leader or organisation, at least
till now.

Harald