Will the revolutions in North Africa also bring down the "Socialist International"?
Germany's Social Democratic Party (SPD), the leading party in the "Socialist International" for many decades, is talking about leaving the "International". Both Mubarak's NDP in Egypt, and Ben Ali's RCD in Tunisia, were until their downfall members of the "Socialist International". An article by SPD leader Sigmar Gabriel in the liberal Frankfurter Rundschau points out the obvious, that the Socialist International is irrelevant, that it is no longer a "voice for freedom", that many member parties should be expelled from it, that it is embarrassing that parties such as Mubarak's or Ben Ali's...