Germany

"Struggle against unemployment and not against the unemployed"

First successful national meeting of the WASG Left

‘Junge Welt’ debate between Lucy Redler (SAV) and Christine Buchholz (Linksruck)

But anti-cuts Berlin WASG re-affirm standing independently

Trade union bureaucracy holds workers’struggles back

A reply to Linksruck, sister organisation of the British SWP

A dangerous move to the right

Future not capitalism

Anti-cuts alternative confirmed for September poll

What do the WASG and LeftParty.PDS results show?

On the 26th of March, there were federal state elections in Germany, and local council elections in Hessen.

What kind of a new left do we need?

Membership ballot confirms decision of party conference

Decides to stand independently in regional state elections – important victory for the Left

There is a feeling of widespread anger amongst German workers.

Stuttgart’s public sector warning strike

Rostock city council passes most severe cuts in city’s history

Rostock city council passes most severe cuts in city’s history

Successful conference of Party for Work and Justice – The Electoral Alternative (WASG) condemns cuts policy of the Left Party.PDS

The left was the only true winner of last September’s general election.

Delegates oppose social cuts of local Berlin government

The result speaks in very clear language: there is no majority for the neo-liberal attacks of the previous red/green government of Gerhard Schröder and Joschka Fischer, or the even harsher ones proposed by Angela Merkel […]

Seven years in coalition government showed Greens were an establishment party

Left must build on election success with socialist policies

Now is the time to organise resistance!

A massive defeat for the right and a big victory for the left, was the result of the early German election

New party has potential to become third biggest party in Bundestag

National congress of new left-wing party WASG in Germany prepares for general elections

Left winger leader, Oskar Lafontaine, leaves ruling social democrats and calls for new left alliance

Socialist Alternative members stood with others as WASG candidates

New elections called for the autumn

Four hundred meet to discuss resistance against social cuts and capitalism

Challenges and opportunities for WASG (electoral alternative- work and social justice), the new left party

Successful Socialist Alternative campaign against cuts

Against the background of increased attacks on living standards and working conditions, important sections of the working class in Germany have drawn the conclusion that an organisational and political alternative to the neo-liberal policies of […]

Germany is currently in the middle of a political, social and economic earthquake. Ordinary Germans are facing a neo-liberal offensive of huge and stark proportions by the German ruling class.

"This was a sell out!"

Strike needs to spread not end

The swift angry and determined answer of the workers at Opel’s Ruhr area factory in Bochum to General Motor’s announcement of 12,000 redundancies throughout Europe has seized the headlines in Germany. They immediately went on […]

Solidarity with striking Opel workers in Germany

Protest against action by Cinram bosses

Socialist Alternative, the German section of the cwi, scored a great victory in Sunday’s local elections in North Rhine Westphalia, winning two more councillors after initiating and heading two left electoral lists against social cuts […]

Protests continue

Today 79% of east Germans and 51% of west Germans think that Socialism is a "good idea" that was "only badly implemented" in the former Soviet Union and eastern Europe. That is the judgement after […]

Eye witness accounts from Rostock and Leipzig

“Hot autumn” for German government starts early as tens of thousands take to the streets in yet another wave of protest against impoverishment programme Agenda 2010

1,500 school students and apprentices take part in a city wide youth strike in Kassel, Hessen, to demonstrate against social cuts.

Does radical rhetoric of some of the trade union leaders against the government’s cuts policy mark a turning point for the struggle against Agenda 2010?