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Germany

Opposition and opportunity in Germany

Posted on 16th December 2009 by ISJ

Just one month after Angela Merkel’s new conservative-liberal government took office in Germany it faces its first difficulties. Franz Josef Jung of Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) resigned from the government amid allegations of a cover-up relating to the Kunduz… Continue Reading →

Analysis Germany

A short autumn of utopia: The East German revolution of 1989

Posted on 29th September 2009 by ISJ

Readers of this journal are unlikely to be participating in the twentieth anniversary celebrations of the “transition to capitalism” in Central and Eastern Europe and it’s easy to see why.1 The expansion of Nato shows that its supposedly defensive purpose—to… Continue Reading →

Analysis 1989, Germany

Die Linke and the crisis of class representation

Posted on 29th September 2009 by ISJ

The European radical left is characterised by its lack of synchronicity.1 We can see decline, regroupment and regeneration happening almost simultaneously, and so far no role model for a successful left has emerged.2 The fate of the left in Italy,… Continue Reading →

Analysis Die Linke, Germany

New life for the new left

Posted on 31st March 2008 by ISJ

Not long ago Nicolas Sarkozy in France, Angela Merkel in Germany and Kostas Karamanlis in Greece presented themselves as politicians who could do for continental European capitalism what Margaret Thatcher did for British capitalism.1 Some on the left took them… Continue Reading →

Analysis France, Germany, Greece, Italy

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