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The Entry of a New German Left Party Shakes up the Country
In October 2023, 10 members of the German parliament (Bundestag) left Die Linke (the Left) and declared their intention to form their own party. With their departure, Die Linke’s parliamentary group...
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German MP Blasts Europe’s Complicity in Gaza Genocide
In Germany, 10 MPs have quit the Left Party (Die Linke) due to its increasingly pro-war stance and established a new party called the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW). Defined by a pro-peace policy,...
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Mass Protests Against the Far Right AfD in Germany
It’s early February in 2024 and on the last 3 weekends in January hundreds of thousands of Germans took to the streets and rallied against the far-right AfD. Many politicians, intellectuals and...
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“Subbies” at Amazon in Germany
The exploitation of workers under capitalism is nothing new. In line with that, a sophisticated system of exploitation exists at Amazon. It occurs almost globally even in a so-called high-wage country...
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BSW – Germany’s New Left(ish) Party
With the far right AfD and adjacent Neo-Nazis on the march, Germany’s progressive side of politics seems to enjoy breaking itself into ever smaller pieces. Next to the once mighty social-democratic...
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The Illegality of Germany’s Neo-Fascist Party
Even before anti-AfD rallies took place all over Germany, banning Germany’s most outspoken Neo-Nazi party, the AfD, was one of the most hotly debated issues. Unfortunately, some of Germany’s Neo-Nazis...
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The Unrepentant West: Olaf Scholz and the Right to Commit Genocide in Gaza
On February 8, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz was in Washington on an official visit, aimed at working jointly with the United States to make “sure that Israel has what it needs to defend itself”. If...
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Memory Failure
In March 1960, Konrad Adenauer, the chancellor of West Germany, met his Israeli counterpart, David Ben-Gurion, in New York. Eight years earlier, Germany had agreed to pay millions of marks in...
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U.S. Peace Activist Given Longest Prison Term in German Campaign to Oust U.S....
Susan Crane, of the Redwood City, California Catholic Worker, has been sentenced to 229 days in prison in Germany for daring to interfere with the U.S. nuclear weapons stationed at Germany’s Büchel Air...
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100 Neo-Nazis Infiltrated Germany’s Parliament
By mid-March 2024, millions of people had participated in anti-far-right rallies that covered the entire length and breadth of Germany. The anti-right-wing and anti-AfD demonstrations have been active...
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The Forgotten History of Hitler’s Establishment Enablers
Hitler is so fully imagined a subject—so obsessively present on our televisions and in our bookstores—that to reimagine him seems pointless. As with the Hollywood fascination with Charles Manson,...
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What’s Really Behind Germany’s Unshakeable Support of Israel?
The extent of the German government’s support for Israel during its ongoing offensive in Gaza has taken many by surprise. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has been even more restrained in his criticisms...
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The Berlin-based Lawyers’ Collective on Friday sued the German government in an effort to stop weapons transfers to Israel, whose government and military are waging a genocidal war against Palestinians...
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Germany is Becoming a Police State When it Comes to Palestine Activism
At 6 a.m. on March 22, pro-Palestinian activists Said and Yasemin, who were asleep in their respective Berlin homes, were awakened by armed and masked police officers who broke down their doors at the...
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German Capitalism & German Neo-Nazis
Things seem to be different this time around. The current year, 2024, is unlike the year 1934 when Hitler solidified his fascist power ending democracy. Neither is it like 1939, the year when Hitler’s...
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Bus Drivers Strike with Climate Activists in 57 German Cities
Public transit workers across Germany have broken new ground by coordinating our contracts—nearly all of them nationwide have expired over the last four months—and shutting down bus systems with...
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Palestine Congress: Yanis Varoufakis’ Banned Speech
Friends, Congratulations, and heartfelt thanks, for being here, despite the threats, despite the ironclad police outside this venue, despite the panoply of the German press, despite the German state,...
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Nicaragua Takes Germany to the World Court for Facilitating Israel’s Genocide
As Israel’s genocidal campaign against the Palestinians in Gaza — which has killed more than 33,000 Gazans — enters its seventh month, Nicaragua sued Germany in the International Court of Justice (ICJ,...
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The Ghosts of Germany
A little history will suffice to conclude that Germany has been a problem for Europe for more than a century. The greatest attacks on Europe’s peace have come from Germany. Let us not forget that NATO...
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Yanis Varoufakis Banned from Germany as Berlin Police Raid & Shut Down...
As Germany intensifies its crackdown on pro-Palestinian voices, we speak with Greek economist and politician Yanis Varoufakis, one of the planned speakers at a conference in Berlin last weekend that...
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When Namibia Stands Up to Germany: How Gaza Revolutionized the Global South
The distance between Gaza and Namibia is measured in the thousands of kilometers. But the historical distance is much closer. This is precisely why Namibia was one of the first countries to take a...
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Fired by a German University for Solidarity with Palestine
The University of Cologne canceled a guest professorship with the philosophy professor from The New School. In this interview, she speaks about Germany dividing between “Good Jews” and “Bad Jews,” her...
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Gaza and Germany’s Path to Authoritarianism
The German government’s stance on the war in Gaza and its increasingly repressive treatment of critics are causing growing national and international concern. The administration made up of Social...
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When Namibia Stands Up to Germany: Why the Global South is Rising for Palestine
The distance between Gaza and Namibia is measured in the thousands of kilometers. But the historical distance is much closer. This is precisely why Namibia was one of the first countries to take a...
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Banned by Germany
Three weeks ago, I was banned from entering Germany. When I asked the German authorities who decided this, when, and under what rationale, I received a formal reply that, for reasons of national...
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Great Expectations – Germany’s Petite Bourgeoisie
For the past few years, Germany’s petty bourgeoisie or middle class has been losing confidence in society, politics, and capitalism. They are increasingly at odds with the democratic parties they have...
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Political Strikes in Germany
In recent weeks, there has been talks of a return of trade unions in Germany and this is not just because of May Day – the 1st of May – but also because it has been seventy years that the right to...
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The Revitalization of German Trade Unions
German trade unions are on an upward trajectory. This year’s May Day celebrations showed as much as they were well-attended throughout Germany. German unionists also acknowledged seventy years of...
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German Colonial Amnesia and the Destruction of Gaza
Aimé Césaire states in his Discourse on Colonialism that colonialism decivilizes the colonizer, brutalizes him, degrades him, “to awaken him to buried instinct, to covetous violence, race hatred, and...
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In Germany, Liberals Lead the Authoritarian Turn
For German weekly Der Spiegel, there’s no doubt about the real meaning of the Alternative for Germany (AfD): this far-right party is, in fact, an “Alternative against Germany.” This headline referred...
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