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The German State’s Crackdown on Solidarity With Palestine
Zaid Abdulnasser is a Palestinian refugee living in Berlin, Germany and a former member of “Samidoun – Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network”. Samidoun is an international organization, working for...
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Hitler’s Nazis And How Germany Became Good Again
Recently, the German way of dealing with its Nazi past has been described as Learning from the Germans. German Holocaust remembrance prefers to use the term Aufarbeitung or working through history....
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“Politics of Memory”: Masha Gessen’s Hannah Arendt Prize Postponed for...
We speak with the acclaimed Russian American writer Masha Gessen, whose latest article for The New Yorker looks at the politics of Holocaust commemoration in Europe. Gessen was scheduled to receive the...
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Germany, Auschwitz and Disney
Even though US reactionaries like Ron DeSantis are obsessed with trying to destroy the Disney Corporation, Disney has recently produced a semi-documentary drama called German House, the story behind...
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Master and Servant: Israel, United States, Germany & Nuclear Power
The Israeli massacre in Gaza is a catastrophe, and not just for the city’s tortured inmates, languishing for decades under a merciless occupation. The United States in particular, but also Germany,...
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Franz Beckenbauer, Rest in Shame: South African Memories of German Corruption
Who taught leading South Africa sports officials and politicians world-class corruption; specifically, how to buy hosting rights to the FIFA Soccer World Cup? One prime suspect is the great mid-fielder...
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German Elites Are Redefining Antisemitism So They Can Be the Victims
On Monday, up to 1,000 artists and cultural workers protested in front of the Berlin parliament. The city’s cultural senator, Joe Chialo of the conservative CDU, has declared that in order to get...
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The Online Successes of Germany’s Neo-Fascism
Hitler’s Nazi party was a party for the youth. By 1933, over 40% of all Nazi party members were between 21 and 30 years old. While those over 60 were a meagre 3.6%. Today’s neo-fascism is replicating...
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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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