Workers Didn’t Bring Us Fascism
From Berlin to the Ruhr, the organized working class resisted Hitler’s reactionary appeals.
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Berlin’s Black Communist
In the years before Hitler seized power, a Cameroonian communist was an icon of the Berlin left. Joseph Ekwe Bilé linked the fight against race hate in Germany to the vision of a world free of imperialism.
A New European Narrative
Syriza needs mobilized support to defeat its creditors — and the far right.
Ernst Nolte’s Revenge
Conflations of Bolshevism and Nazism are the order of the day. Ernst Nolte would be pleased.
Germany’s European Empire
In today’s Germany, Wolfgang Streeck argues, politicians laud “Europe” — while quietly using EU structures to advance German national interests.
Angela’s Godfather
Helmut Kohl (1930–2017) paved the way for Germany’s current hegemony in Europe.
The German Left Needs to Speak to the Working-Class Majority
This weekend, Germany’s left-wing party Die Linke meets for a congress to respond to its recent electoral decline. For too long, the party has soaked in the language of activist subcultures — and voters have lost faith that it’s serious about wielding power.
Three Hours to Midnight
Alternative for Germany's string of successes shows the party is here to stay. How can the Left respond?
Why Wagenknecht Will Fail
In Germany and elsewhere, making tactical concessions to the Right isn’t just bad socialist politics — it won’t work.
The Elvis of East Germany
How a young man from Colorado became the Eastern Bloc’s biggest pop star.
Deutschland 89 Shows the Scrap for Power After the Fall of the Berlin Wall
The new series in the Deutschland trilogy starts in the hours before the fall of the Berlin Wall. But there’s little time for either joy or commiseration — everyone’s too busy trying to lay their hands on East Germany’s assets.
Attacks on German Campus Protests Fuel Authoritarian Turn
As Israel destroyed Gaza’s universities, German academic leaders condemned students who protested against it. Now, as Israel invades Rafah, they’re stepping up their repressive effort — using police to make sure US-style campus occupations never take root.
The Canton Speech
Today in 1918, Eugene V. Debs delivered the speech that landed him in jail. We reprint it here in full.
Victory in Stagnation?
Die Linke’s electoral result shows what the party must do to really contend for power.
Die Linke Finds Its Voice on Palestine
For two years, Germany’s socialist party Die Linke tried to skirt around its divisions over Gaza. Joining last Saturday’s massive demonstration in Berlin, its leaders finally showed the party can be a clear voice against the genocide.
The SPD Under Angela Merkel
With the opposition reduced to a dispersed minority, the German government is firmly in the hands of Angela Merkel's centrist coalition.
What’s Next for the German Left?
The German left must figure out how to create an appealing socialist project among the “winners” of Europe’s crisis.
A Human Rights Contradiction
Thirty years since reunification, the former East Germany is routinely presented as a “second German dictatorship” where human rights were all but nonexistent. Yet when that state took sides with Third World causes and antifascists in the West, it frequently used the language of human rights — an expression of solidarity that often clashed with realities in East Germany itself.
The Wagenknecht Question
The German left’s response to right-wing populism will determine its future.
Where Standing Up for Kurdish Rights Is a Crime
In Germany, that supposed bastion of liberal democracy, the state treats standing up for Kurdish rights as tantamount to terrorism — and hits activists with house searches, imprisonment, and even deportation.