Workers of Germany, Unite: The New Siren Call of the Far Right

  • 6 years ago
Workers of Germany, Unite: The New Siren Call of the Far Right
But Mr. Reil believes his party has the greatest potential in places like Bottrop, in the Ruhr area, once the industrial heartland of West Germany
and long a bastion of Social Democratic and union power.
The AfD, Mr. Pohl said, "is a new people’s party that cares about the little people."
When some center-left lawmakers guffawed, Mr. Pohl pointed at the television cameras.
But two years ago, after the arrival of hundreds of thousands of refugees in Germany,
Mr. Reil switched to the far-right Alternative for Germany party, or AfD.
Hansel said that If you want social justice, you need to manage who is coming into your country,
Mr. Reil, who never managed to rise through the Social Democrats’ local party hierarchy, is now a member of the AfD’s national leadership team.
" Mr. Niedermayer said. that Breaking into the union milieu is key to that strategy,

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