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Germany joins Hungary in prosecuting left‑wing activists

Gus Fagan — 2026-02-07T11:57:07Z

Gus Fagan reports on the repression of anti-fascists by Germany and Hungary

- IVP613 - February 2026 / Germany, Hungary, Antifascism

Tribute to the internationalist communists deported to Buchenwald

François Preneau — 2025-10-26T10:56:13Z

On Saturday 11 October 2025, at the Buchenwald memorial and on the initiative of the association Les amis d'Arbeiter und Soldat, a tribute was paid to the internationalist communists deported to Buchenwald.

- News from around the world / France, Germany, Fourth International, Historical events and figures

“A left-wing, grassroots orientation allows you to score points in times of polarization”

Antoine Larrache, Violetta Bock — 2025-09-30T04:56:44Z

Our comrade Violetta Bock presents the situation in Germany and her work as a Member of Parliament for Die Linke, which consists of making a link between the working classes and the contesting of an increasingly unstable power. She spoke to Antoine Larrache.

- IVP608 - September 2025 / Germany

Germany and the Repressive Apparatus Against the Pro-Palestinian Movement: the Case of Berlin

Roser Garí Pérez — 2025-06-18T09:31:33Z

The German state's ongoing repression of the pro-Palestine movement, especially in Berlin, has reached levels that concern human rights organisations such as Amnesty International, international media, and even Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur for the Palestinian Territories.

- Features / Germany

Germany's Enslavement to Its Past Kept It Silent on Gaza for Far Too Long

Gideon Levy — 2025-06-18T09:30:59Z

Germany has betrayed the memory of the Holocaust and its lessons. A country that saw its highest task as not to forget has forgotten. A country that told itself that it would never remain silent is silent. A country that once said "Never Again," and now: "again," with arms, with funding, with silence. There is no country that should be better than Germany at "discerning nauseating processes." Every German knows much more about them than Yair Golan. Here in Israel they are in full swing, yet Germany has not yet recognized them for what they are. It was only recently that it woke up too late and to too little effect.

- Features / Germany, Israel

Inside Die Linke

Frieda Holm and Maria Sommer , Sean Larson — 2025-06-07T18:59:36Z

After geopolitical upheaval and a snap election in February brought a new coalition to power, the political situation in Germany is rapidly changing. Even as the far right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is on the rise, Germany's left-wing party, Die Linke surged in the most recent election to over double its prior size. What are the implications?

- Features / Germany, New parties of the left

Merz-Klingbeil government is Trumpism lite

Heinrich Neuhaus — 2025-05-23T13:47:39Z

Germany's latest variant of the GroKo (Grosse Koalition, Grand Coalition), with Friedrich Merz (CDU/CSU) as Chancellor and Lars Klingbeil (SPD) as Vice-Chair, aims, according to the coalition agreement, to represent “responsibility for Germany”. Translated from political newspeak, this means that the amount of profits is untouchable.

- IVP604 - May 2025 / Germany

“The crisis of liberal hegemony is the reason why so many Europeans are turning to the extreme right”

Ilya Budraitskis, Philipp Schmid — 2025-05-19T08:41:13Z

Exiled Russian political scientist and activist Ilya Budraitskis explains the causes of the rise of the extreme right, the goals of the new fascists, and what lessons the radical left should draw from the 20th century for the fight against fascism. He makes a few suggestions for where anti-fascist politics could begin today in this interview by Philipp Schmid (BFS Zürich) first published in Sozialismus.ch.

- Features / Germany, Russia, Far Right

A capitalism in crisis, predatory and authoritarian

Romaric Godin — 2025-03-26T12:13:29Z

Capitalism is in deep crisis, with extremely low growth rates. This is the basis for resolutely anti-social policies, increasingly authoritarian and predatory, as seen in the first months of the Trump presidency.

- IVP602 - March 2025 / United States (USA), France, Germany, Economy, China

On the 2025 German elections

Jakob Schaefer, Promise Li — 2025-03-23T06:33:12Z

Promise Li, a socialist from Hong Kong now based in Los Angeles, interviews Jakob Schäfer for Borderless. Jacob is a retired steelworker, having served on the steering committee of the Network for Fighting Trade Unions (VKG). He is also a member of the International Sozialistische Organization (ISO) and the editor of the magazine Die Internationale. Promise is is a member of Tempest Collective and Solidarity, and has been active in higher education rank-and-file union work, international solidarity and antiwar campaigns, and Chinatown tenant organizing.. The interview was conducted on 25 February 2025 and appeared in Borderless on February 2025.

- Features / Germany