What were the major left forces in Germany during the 90s?

[Delenda Carthago]

I know that around the early 90s the far-right and nazis reached 13% of the votes. What stopped them? And what was the duration of these forces? Where are they now? Are they all in DieLinke?

[Red Commissar]

I know that around the early 90s the far-right and nazis reached 13% of the votes. What stopped them? And what was the duration of these forces? Where are they now? Are they all in DieLinke?

13%, really? I never heard they got that high in Germany in the elections there, at least on the federal level.

As for the left-of-SPD groups in Germany, the only successful ones were the predecessors of Die Linke. One was the Party for Democratic Socialism, which was formed by some ex-members of the SED and their supporters (most prominently Gregor Gysi), and the "Labor and Social Alternative" which emerged as in the first part of the last decade as a left-wing split from the SPD (especially after Oskar Lafontaine joined). Those two merged to make Die Linke back in 2007.

There were other groups more left wing but they never crossed the election threshold afaik. Plus the various anti-fa but I'm not familiar on those.

[Die Neue Zeit]

I'd like to read more commentary on the WASG myself, not just the momentum it garnered when Oskar Lafontaine joined.

[l'Enfermé]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_federal_election,_1990
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_federal_election,_1994
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_federal_election,_1998