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Germany: Biggest union backs anti-cuts demo
October 25 saw the congress of biggest trade union in the world, ver.di, unanimously back the anti-cuts demo called for November 1 in Berlin.
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Germany in crisis: “This policy deserves no applause!” – but resistance!
It is a tradition for the German chancellor and the leaders of the political parties to give a speech to the national congresses of the big trade unions.
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Germany: Schröder’s all-out assault on workers and the unemployed
Schröder’s policy statement amounts to a declaration of war on the workers, the unemployed and the pensioners. He has presented a catalogue of cruelty which severely cuts back the standard of living, the social security […]
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Germany: Youth Against the war organises national day of action
The recently launched campaign Youth Against War has organised a successful day of action on February 25th. The campaign was recently launched by different school students’, students’ and appretices’ anti war committees – many of […]
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Germany: 10,000 school students on strike in Stuttgart
More than 10,000 school students went on strike with university and apprentice students joining the protests in Stuttgart today. The strike was part of a national day of action on February 25th, organised by Youth […]
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Germany: Bremen school students strike!
On February 13, 7-9000 youth, most of them school students, demonstrated in Bremen against the war. In fact this was the first school students strike against the war on Iraq.
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Germany: Governing SPD routed in federal elections
Federal (regional) state elections took place in Hessen and Lower Saxony, last Sunday. In Hessen the right wing Christian Democrats (CDU) went up by 5.4% to 48.8%, the best result for the Christian Democrats in […]
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Germany: Crisis and workers struggle
Only two months after the swearing in of the Red-Green government, that had been re-elected to office only by the narrowest of margins, Chancellor Gerhard Schröder (SPD) threatened his resignation. Speaking to the Executive of […]
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Germany: CWI holds biggest conference ever
From 1-3 November, the national conference of the German section of the CWI took place. It was the biggest conference of the German section ever.
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Germany: Election results herald time for a new workers’ party
"Time for a change in Germany", was the title of last week’s right wing magazine, The Economist (London). This reflected the wish of the international and German capitalists for a new coalition government of the […]