| Ines Schwerdtner | |
| Birth Date: | 26 August 1989 |
| Birth Place: | Werdau, Saxony, East Germany |
| Party: | The Left (2023–present) |
| Children: | 1 |
| Alma Mater: | Free University of Berlin |
| Occupation: | Journalist • Politician |
| Office1: | Leader of The Left |
| Termstart1: | 19 October 2024 |
| Predecessor1: | Martin Schirdewan |
| Alongside1: | Jan van Aken |
Ines Schwerdtner (born 26 August 1989)[1] is a German journalist and politician. She has been co-leader of The Left since October 2024. She was previously editor-in-chief of the German-language edition of the socialist magazine Jacobin from 2019 to 2023.[2] She joined The Left in August 2023 and ran for the 2024 European Parliament election, but was not elected.[3]
Schwerdtner grew up in Werdau, Saxony.[4] She studied Political Science and English at the Free University of Berlin and was the overall coordinator of the magazine Das Argument before joining Jacobin. In addition, she was the host of the political podcast halbzehn.fm. She publishes political analyses and commentaries, among other things, in Der Freitag and in Analyse & kritik. In 2019 she wrote a guest commentary together with Marco Bülow at Business Insider.[5]
Schwerdtner is involved in the initiative Deutsche Wohnen & Co. enteignen.[6] As official representative for Jacobin, she is also one of the initiators of the "Enough is Enough" campaign, which was founded in 2022 in response to rising prices following the Russian invasion of Ukraine and what she sees as insufficient government action to support poorer segments of the population.[7] [8]
Since 2022, Schwerdtner has been a member of the advisory board of the "Recherchefonds" of the Austrian foundation COMÚN.[9]
In 2023, as a member of the collective MF3000, she was involved in the book German: Ändern wir die Welt, sie braucht es! Eine marxistisch-feministische Ansage (Let's Change the World, A Marxist-Feminist Announcement), published by Querverlag. She also co-edited with Lukas Scholle the anthology German: Genug! (Enough!).[10]
Since October 2024 she has been federal chairman of the Left Party together with Jan van Aken.[11]