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Christine Buchholz | |
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| Member of the Bundestag | |
| In office 2009–2021 | |
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| Born | (1971-04-02)2 April 1971 (age 54) Hamburg, West Germany |
| Political party | The Left |
Christine Ann Buchholz (born 2 April 1971 inHamburg) is a German politician and was member of theBundestag, the German federal diet from 2009 to 2021 for theDie Linke.[1][2] A progressive activist, Bucholz is a member ofMarx21, a network oftrotskyists within Die Linke broadly aligned with theInternational Socialist Tendency.
From 1991 to 1998, Buchholz studied education and social sciences with a focus on politics and religion at theUniversity of Hamburg. After thestate examination she took up a supplementary study of science history. Since 1995 she has also worked in Hamburg and Berlin as an assistant for people with disabilities. From 1997 to 2001 she was a member of the works council in a Hamburg nursing company. She was certified as ötv - Vertrauensfrau (trusted woman) and is a member of the unionver.di. From 2002 she worked as a freelance editor and from 2005 to 2009 as a research assistant to a member of the left parliamentary group Linksfraktion.
Since the early 1990s she has been active in the antifascist scene. In 1994 she became a member of the Trotskyist organization Linksruck. From 1994 to 1999 she was a member of the SPD. She was active early in theanti-globalization movement and became a member of Attac. She was one of the organizers of the European Social Forum, the Social Forum in Germany and the protests against theG8 summit inHeiligendamm (2007). She participated in the organization and implementation of the Blockupy protests against "banking power and the austerity of theEU troika". In the Bundestag she spoke against austerity, theEuropean Stability Mechanism and theEuropean Fiscal Compact.
Buchholz proposed in early 2013 that politicians of the other two (former) opposition partiesSPD andGreens should seek political compromises. With a view to thefederal election in 2013 (and apparently on the subject of a red-red-green coalition), she said that there is no substantive basis for a government participation because of the support of foreign operations of theBundeswehr and the approval ofAngela Merkel's EU austerity.
Through her membership in Linksruck (dissolved in 2007) she joined the WASG, whose extended federal board she belonged from spring 2005. In March 2007, she was elected to the executive WASG board. Since the Unification Party Convention on 16 June 2007 she is a member of the executive party executive committee of the left, where she is responsible for peace and disarmament.
Buchholz is (as of 2008) a supporter of theTrotskyist organization Marx21 within Die Linke and was the author of the magazine of the same name.
Buchholz is considered a protagonist of the left party wing within the party Die Linke. In 2011, she criticized the attempt by reformers such as Stefan Liebich to change the foreign policy foundations of the party.
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