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Last Saturday, one day before the Berlin vote, there were demonstrations against CETA and TTIP in seven major cities, supported by many organizations on the left
Victor Grossman
Victor Grossman is a journalist from the U.S. now living in Berlin. He fled his U.S. Army post in the 1950s in danger of reprisals for his left-wing activities at Harvard and in Buffalo, New York. He landed in the former German Democratic Republic (Socialist East Germany), studied journalism, founded a Paul Robeson Archive, and became a freelance journalist and author. His latest book, A Socialist Defector: From Harvard to Karl-Marx-Allee, is about his life in the German Democratic Republic from 1949 – 1990, the tremendous improvements for the people under socialism, the reasons for the fall of socialism, and the importance of today's struggles.
Every time the LINKE joined up in a state coalition it lost many voters and ended up far weaker than before. Will it make this same mistake after the Berlin election?
A report from Berlin on causes of the spate of violence striking Germany and across Europe
Following German state elections three weeks ago the politicians are still sorting things out and pasting new coalitions together
Although readers in the USA and elsewhere are watching voting results there with baited breath, it is worth taking a look at…
The rapid growth of this young sibling of older neo-Nazi groups confirms the truth of Bertolt Brecht’s warning: “Fertile still are the loins from whence that crept”
2016 began here with an icy chill, not only with the weather but far worse, with human relations. It also offered some,…
Angela Merkel’s reasons for originally welcoming all immigrants is still debated
Changes in the German political scene seem more and more in the offing
German Chancellor Merkel has performed an about-face, re-imposing border controls and further exacerbating the refugee crisis