The Left North Rhine-Westphalia

Labour and Social Justice – The Electoral Alternative (Wahlalternative Arbeit und soziale Gerechtigkeit e.V., also called the WASG) was founded in Berlin on 3 July 2004, and its first North Rhine-Westphalia-wide General Assembly took place in Duisburg on 17 October 2004.

[5] The Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) ran candidates in both the 2000 and 2005 state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, garnering 1.1% and 0.9% of the votes, respectively.

A significant portion are workers as well as the unemployed and those who remain in poverty under Hartz IV (a German social welfare program).

The Left also wants a strong social safety net that protects against people risking their health or lives because of medical needs or poverty.

In addition, the party stands for a proactive labor policy that ensures that regular, well-paid jobs are created and maintained.

They see themselves as a feminist party that seeks to realize equality between the sexes, and in foreign politics, they are against military intervention of any kind, as well as for the disarmament and dissolution of NATO.