Can Germany’s Die Linke Revive Itself?
In October, Die Linke elected new leadership, which promises to reconnect with working-class voters. With German elections planned for early 2025, they face a race against time to change the party’s culture.
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Need Germany Exist?
During World War II, one American journalist made a not-so-modest proposal.
Ordinary Germans Don’t Want a Fight With Russia
The German government’s reluctance to join an anti-Russian bandwagon owes at least as much to commercial interests as to historical guilt. But calls for Berlin to play a stronger role in NATO should be emphatically resisted.
Don’t Count on Merkel
The German left must fight for a solution to the refugee crisis that doesn't involve more fences, border guards, or racist demagoguery.
The Wrestler Who Took on Nazi Germany
Seventy-five years after the Nazis murdered him, we celebrate the life of German anti-fascist athlete and communist resistance fighter Werner Seelenbinder.
Saskia Esken Failed to Change Germany’s Social Democrats
German Social Democrat leader Saskia Esken was elected in 2019 promising to return the 150-year-old party to its roots. Her quest to change this establishment party was likely doomed all along — and now it’s shifting even further to the right.
Germany’s Coalition Collapsed, but Recession Is Here to Stay
German chancellor Olaf Scholz has dismissed his finance minister, Christian Lindner, pitching the country toward elections. Economic woes will be at the center of the campaign — yet proposals for a break with austerity are are conspicuously absent.
Why Social Distancing “Doesn’t Apply” to Germany’s Migrant Farmworkers
The German state emphasizes the need for social distancing — except for the Romanian migrants working in its farms. The EU’s neoliberal order has deepened the continent’s labor market inequalities, making a mockery of the rhetoric of European solidarity.
Handsomely Funded to Ignore Genocide
Germany’s main parties each have a state-funded political foundation, meant to promote a culture of democratic debate. Boasting thousands of employees, they have enforced a collective silence on the genocide in Gaza out of obedience to German foreign policy.
“We Fought for a Freer, Greener East Germany”
The East German protests in the fall of 1989 included many who aspired for a democratic socialism. In the state's final years, the young supporters of the Modern Socialism Project fought for an alternative to authoritarianism — promoting an ecological socialism rooted in democratic rights.
The Gonzo Weimar Germany of George Grosz
Between the 1920s and the 1950s, the German painter George Grosz went from being Vladimir Lenin’s favorite modern artist to a bitter illustrator in American exile. In between, he drew some of the fiercest caricatures of capitalist society ever seen.
Is Merkel Being Irrational?
German elites are willing to let the euro crash to guarantee their own political survival.
Free and Unequal
Higher education should be free. But we can’t just copy the flawed European model.
Nuremberg’s Echoes
It's been 80 years since the Nuremberg Laws were passed. What are the lessons for antifascists today?
A World Without Borders
The refugee crisis only has one just solution: open borders.
The German Left’s Palestine Problem
Die Linke's position on Palestine has isolated it from the global solidarity movement.
“A Communist Doesn’t Whine — He Shows His Teeth”
Theodor Bergmann, the last surviving member of the pre–World War II German Communist movement, spoke to Jacobin.
The Walls the West Won’t Tear Down
Twenty-five years after the Berlin Wall, lethal borders remain. We must dismantle them.
The SPD Should Return to Its Anticolonial Roots
Germany’s Social Democrats now have a chance to make amends for the German empire’s genocidal policies in Africa. In doing so, they’d be returning to the party’s anti-imperialist roots.
Today’s German Economic Elites Have Strong Links to the Nazis
Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany’s Wealthiest Dynasties explores the historical links between the Third Reich and Germany’s current captains of industry. It’s not just ancient history.