Publications and Speeches in English
Member of Bundestag since 2005
Speaker for Social Policy of DIE LINKE in the Bundestag
Former Co-Chair of DIE LINKE
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02.02.2021
From sustainability debates to the Green New Deal
Auf Einladung der German Society der London School of Economic, habe ich am 2. Februar 2021 mit Hans Joachim Schellnhuber und Rolf Buch über soziale Nachhaltigkeit diskutiert. Hier mein Imput: Learning the right lessons from the Covid crisis – Time for a shift towards sustainability Input for a debate at the London School of Economics Thank you very much for the invitation, I’m delighted to be talking about sustainability today ...
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25.05.2020
'If we want to change anything in Europe, we have to start in Berlin'
You have published your new book Neue linke Mehrheiten. Eine Einladung von Katja Kipping [New left wing majorities. An invitation from Katja Kipping]. It was published shortly before the ban on gatherings and the beginning of physical distancing. Is the debate now only taking place online? I was still able to hold the launch in the TAZ [Tageszeitung, a German newspaper] café together with SPD Secretary General Lars Klingbeil and Robert Misik ...
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04.05.2020, Katja Kipping
The Only Honest Way Out of the Corona Crisis and the False Promises of the “Relax the Measures” Lobby
The exit strategy sold to us by the relax-the-measures lobby does not lead out of the corona crisis but instead to a second more severe wave of infection and makes the economic crisis a permanent one. This entails risks for everybody’s health as well as the economy. A realistic way out of the crisis would be #stopthevirus ...
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05.04.2017
Emancipatory basic income and socio-ecological transformation from the perspective of the European left
Emancipatory basic income and socio-ecological transformation from the perspective of the European left Katja Kipping, Speech on the16. BIEN-Congress in Seoul, Juli 2016, as PDF-Document (see below) in German and in English
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05.04.2017
Unconditional basic income as a fixed rate of democracy
Unconditional basic income as a fixed rate of democracy: Safeguarding the social freedom and economic power of all people Katja Kipping, Speech on the16. BIEN-Congress in Seoul, Juli 2016, as PDF-Document (see below) in German and in English
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28.06.2016
Brexit? Europe is social, or it is not.
Yanis Varoufakis asked me for DiEM25, what the Brexit means für the Euopean Left. Brexit? Europe is social, or it is not. Brexit? Now is the time for real democracy! The EU-bureaucrats and their neoliberal austerity politics lay the ground for EU-skepticism and an explosion of nationalism. Yes, Brexit does give hope to many people in Britain, especially to the poor and unemployed ...
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10.02.2016, Katja Kipping
A new Europa emerges from below
The EU-Elites are currently destroying any hope in Europe. Their reactions to the rising numbers of refugees and the fiscal coup reveal the moral bankruptcy of neoliberalism. Meanwhile, trans-border networks of solidarity are rising: along the Balkan route, in Greece, as well as here in Berlin ...
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10.02.2016
Speech at DiEM 25
Dear friends of a solidary and democratic Europe, The EU-Elites are currently destroying any hope in Europe. Their reactions to the rising numbers of refugees and the fiscal coup reveal the moral bankruptcy of neoliberalism. Meanwhile, trans-border networks of solidarity are rising: along the Balkan route, in Greece, as well as here in Berlin ...
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08.02.2016, Katja Kipping
What I didn't read in the TTIP-reading-room
TTIP, the EU-US free trade deal, has secrecy written all over it. Those responsible for it live in dread of any public scrutiny. If it was up to me, I would give everyone who’s interested the chance to make up their own minds on the text of the agreement in its current form. Sigmar Gabriel, Minister ...
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23.10.2015, By Vera Von Kreutzbruck
‘The Troika blackmailed Greece. Merkel’s minister was leading it’
Tuesday, October 20, 2015 Three years ago before Katja Kipping was appointed co-chair of Germany’s The Left party (Die Linke), wich was at loggerheads, mired with internal divisions. But the storm has now subsided and the party — now the third largest in Germany — is showing its first signs of coming of age ...
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19.05.2015
The Coming Democracy: Socialism 2.0
English Version of the Text "Die kommende Demokratie: Sozialismus 2.0" by Katja Kipping & Bernd Riexinger
