Dude, Where's My Party?

[Patrick Bond]

> From:          Dennis Robert Redmond <dredmond at efn.org>
> The Greens are not "in power". They got 7% of the vote and a minority
> position with the much larger SPD, which means they can push a few issues
> against the neolibs. 

Is that right? When I was in Frankfurt a month ago, I got the 
distinct impression that the Greens had moved into neolib land on 
macroeconomics. 

Then on arriving back in SA, I asked what Heinrich Boell Stiftung 
(the Green development aid funder) was doing, and learned that 
without warning they had just pulled the rug out from under the best 
anti-neolib activist groups in South Africa (Campaign Against 
Neoliberalism in South Africa and Anti-Privatisation Forum).

Enlighten us, Dennis...

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