No, a report in a conservative German newspaper and a study by a multinational market research firm.
A study carried out by Bodo Zeuner and Michael
> Fichter, two excellent left-wing professors at the FU
> Berlin specializing in trade unions, indicates that
> 19% of skilled workers organized in trade unions and
> 20% of unorganized skilled workers have extreme
> right-wing views.
That's a) not entirely relevant; and b) a misrepresentation. Bodo Zuener carried out a study with Richard Stöss and Michael Fichter ( http://www.polwiss.fu-berlin.de/projekte/gewrex/Downloads/Ergebnispapier-Workshop.pdf) examining the susceptibility of union members to right-wing extremist ideology. It didn't maintain that 19/20% had extreme right-wing views, merely that on some fronts they were susceptible to them.
Meanwhile, Oskar Lafontaine, a man who contributed
> substantially to the abolishing of the German asylum
> laws at the beginning of the 1990s, continues to
> service this clientel with tirades against
> "Fremdarbeiter" who take jobs away from German
> workers. And for all of Lafontaine's opportunist
> posturing against the Hartz IV reforms, he was one of
> the leading figures in the SPD advocating the merging
> of unemployment insurance with social insurance.
This is actually a despicable smear. Lafontaine referred *once* to Fremdarbeiter and was bashed as the German Haider for it, but the term is used widely by the other mainstream parties. Lafontaine was attacking German companies that exploit migrant labour to lower wages.
Any fatuous blather about a "left turn" in Germany is
> the result of nervousness on the part of the SPD that
> the Linkspartei might take votes from it by this sort
> of demagogic populist appeal.
No, it's the result of a sustained independent study that you have chosen to ignore for the sake of your own peculiar commitments.
Meanwhile, the Neo-Nazi
> NPD sees a basic compatibility with Lafontaine's
> politics and fantasizes about an anti-neoliberal
> coalition between Red and Brown:
> http://www.npd.de/index.php?sek=0&pfad_id=7&cmsint_id=1&detail=908
Guilt by association, an old and trusty tactic, but about as flimsy as everything else you have tried here.