Suchergebnisse

Der Autor beleuchtet die politischen Umstrukturierungen in Ungarn während des ersten Halbjahres 1989. Im Blickpunkt stehen die progammatische und personelle Erneuerung der Ungarischen Sozialistischen Arbeiterpartei (USAP), die Durchbrechung des gewerkschaftlichen Organisationsmonopols des parteigelenkten Gewerkschaftsbundes SZOT durch die Gründung unabhängiger Gewerkschaften, die Erweiterung des politischen Spektrums durch "alternative" bzw. oppositionelle Parteien und Gruppierungen sowie die ersten Ansätze einer kritischen Presseberichterstattung und eines echten Parlamentarismus. Verwiesen wird allerdings auch auf die politische Zurückhaltung breiter Bevölkerungsschichten. (BIOst-Hml)

The Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) has been struggling over the last few years to regain its unity and electoral support. However, since reunification, the party has been declining and splintering as never before. The oldest party in Germany is becoming painfully aware that its present trials and tribulations can be directly linked to its ambivalent position immediately prior to and following the dramatic events of 1989 and 1990. This article addresses the SPD-SED relationship, one of the most heated topics amongst academics and politicians both within and outside the SPD. It also attempts to account for the Social Democratic ambivalence surrounding the fall of the GDR and the reunification of Germany. Above all, this work highlights the struggle of the SPD coming to terms with the end of its Ostpolitik. (German Politics / FUB)

In the course of the 1994 election campaign, Willy Brandt's Ostpolitik of the late 1960s and early 1970s become an issue. Brandt's widow Brigitte Seebacher-Brandt attempted to rewrite the history of Ostpolitik and Brandt's role in German politics from a neo-conservative point of view. She suggested that Herbert Wehner, the SPD's former parliamentary leader, had been instrumental in forcing her husband's resignation in 1974, and, above all, may have been a spy. Seebacher-Brandt alleged that Wehner actively collaborated with the East in shaping Ostpolitik. If this was so, Ostpolitik may have delayed German unification instead of contributing to it. Brandt's widow attempted to take revenge on the generation of 1968; the generation now largely in charge of the SPD. She accused them of still believing in their leftish antinational ideas and lacking enthusiasm for German unification. She has also never forgiven the SPD for not integrating her as "one of uns" when she married Willy Brandt. Wishing to rescue Brandt's reputation from her demolition of Ostpolitik she has attempted to depict him as a politician who was thinking along patriotic and national lines when he embarked upon Ostpolitik while downplaying his long-standing left-wing credentials. (German Politics / AuD)

Die islamische Partei Ennahda stellt 69 Abgeordnete im tunesischen Parlament, zu denen Sayida Ounissi und Nafouel Ejammali gehören. Sie erläutern, wie ihre Partei nach Jahrzehnten im Untergrund zu einer politischen Kraft wurde, die den demokratischen Übergang mitgestaltet - jedoch nicht unter Bezugnahme auf den Koran, sondern durch Kompromissfähigkeit. (IP)