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Polycrisis and far-right resurgence in Germany

Posted on 28th March 2025 by International Socialism

In 2021, the new government of chancellor Olaf Scholz took over from the conservatives and pre-emptively celebrated itself as a “progress coalition” that is “setting the course for a decade of social, ecological, economic, digital, and social renewal”.1 The coalition… Continue Reading →

Analysis Fascism, Germany, Polycrisis

Pick of the Quarter

Posted on 19th January 2025 by International Socialism

The July issue of Science & Society (volume 88, number 3) contains an interesting and timely symposium on “Imperialism, Anti-imperialism and the Global Class Struggle”. It was provoked by a couple of earlier pieces by William Robinson, who contributed an… Continue Reading →

Pick of the quarter AI, Germany, imperialism

Interview: Die Linke’s crisis and the German far left

Posted on 31st December 2023 by International Socialism

The German radical left party Die Linke (“The Left”) was founded in 2007, bringing together the Party for Democratic Socialism (the successor organisation to the former governing party in East Germany) and The Electoral Alternative—Work and Social Justice (Wahlalternative Arbeit… Continue Reading →

Interview Die Linke, Germany, left reformism, Reformism

German workers get that sinking feeling

Posted on 1st July 2019 by Camilla

A review of Oliver Nachtwey, Germany’s Hidden Crisis: Social Decline in the Heart of Europe (Verso, 2018), £16.99 Oliver Nachtwey’s book sets out to examine the truth of the central ­ideological myths of the German economy. First, that Germany is… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Economics, Germany

Fascism in Europe today

Posted on 18th April 2019 by Camilla

We live in troubling times. Across Europe, the far right is advancing and growing in confidence. In France, the Front National candidate Marine Le Pen entered the run-off for the French presidency in 2017 for only the second time in… Continue Reading →

Article Fascism, France, Germany, The Nazis, Tommy Robinson

Between “birth strike” and “race treason”: The history of Paragraph 219a of the German Criminal Code

Posted on 29th October 2018 by Camilla

Paragraph 219a criminalises doctors who wish to provide information about abortion. Its history goes back a long way and points to the scandal that even today there is no right to abortion in Germany.1 The Kristina Hänel “case” has pushed… Continue Reading →

Online only abortion rights, Germany, women's liberation

Morbid symptoms

Posted on 4th October 2017 by Camilla

Antonio Gramsci famously wrote in 1930: “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear”.1 He was writing about an era… Continue Reading →

Analysis Germany, North Korea

Being right is not enough: Some thoughts on Paul Levi

Posted on 10th April 2013 by ISJ

John Rose and Sebastian Zehetmair1 are quite right to welcome the publication of David Fernbach’s collection of Paul Levi’s writings.2 There is still much to be learnt from the early years of the Communist International. For far too long the… Continue Reading →

Feedback Germany

Divided they fell: the German left and the rise of Hitler

Posted on 9th January 2013 by ISJ

Eighty years ago, on 30 January 1933, President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg appointed Adolf Hitler to the position of Chancellor of the Reich.1 In the years preceding Hitler’s appointment the Nazis and their paramilitary units, the SA and SS,… Continue Reading →

Analysis Fascism, Germany

Germany’s lost Bolshevik: Paul Levi revisited

Posted on 9th October 2012 by ISJ

A review of David Fernbach (ed), In the Steps of Rosa Luxemburg: Selected Writings by Paul Levi (Brill, 2011), €99 Introduction by John Rose David Fernbach’s selection of the writings of Paul Levi allows us not only to reassess the… Continue Reading →

Analysis Germany

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