Germany
GERMANY | DIE LINKE / Left Party: What is to be done?
The author is also a DIE LINKE member. How can the Party’s left react to the decline? The crisis of the Left Party (Die Linke) has not come to an end even with the departure […]
Germany
Germany
Far-right AfD and New BSW Strengthened in Regional Elections
Elections in Eastern federal states show massive dissatisfaction with national government The question was not whether the September 1 state elections Saxony and Thuringia (two of the so-called “new federal states” which formed part of […]
Features - Germany
After the Solingen Terrorist Attack
Resist racist propaganda and the restriction of democratic rights The terrorist attack that took place last week in Solingen, Germany, is shocking. Three people were killed at a town festival and eight were injured, some […]
Europe
Big Demonstrations Against Populist Right
Socialist alternative to right-wing populists, CDU and traffic lights needed! At around 3 pm on Saturday, 31 August, hundreds of people gathered at three different rallies in Leipzig city centre to demonstrate against the AfD […]
Europe
Fascists Attack Pride Marches in Germany
Joint struggle of all workers needed to defend LGBTQI+ rights The annual Christopher Street Day (CSD) LGBTQI+ Pride parade took place in Bautzen, Saxony, on 10 August. Although it was well attended with 1,000 demonstrators, […]
Germany
Protest Demands Release of Adaramoye Michael, Babatunde Oluajo and Mosiu Sodiq
On August 8th, members of Sol (CWI Germany) in Berlin gathered in front of the Nigerian embassy to protest for the immediate release of Adaramoye Michael, Babatunde Oluajo and Mosiu Sodiq. During protests against the […]
Germany
Germany: Solidarity call for striking workers at Bundesanzeiger publishing house
The workers at the Bundesanzeiger publishing house in Cologne have been on strike for more than 70 days. They are fighting for a collective agreement that has not yet been granted to them, and what’s […]
Germany
GERMANY | Fight the Bosses’ ‘Class Struggle from Above’
This is the text of a leaflet by Sol, the CWI in Germany, which has been distributed through the workers’ and trade union movement since May Day. Hardly a day goes by without representatives […]
Germany
GERMANY | Local Elections in Eastern Germany a Blow to Political Establishment
Steve Hollasky, Sozialistische Organisation Solidarität (Sol, CWI in Germany) CWI The results were expected, but they are still shocking: in the local elections in Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Saxony-Anhalt (and in Thuringia a few weeks […]
Germany
GERMANY & EU ELECTIONS | Disaster for ‘Traffic Light’ Government and Strengthening of Right-Wing Populists
Workers’ party with a socialist programme urgently needed The elections to the European Parliament in Germany were another reckoning with the federal government. The right-wing populist AfD (Alternative for Germany) and the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance […]