National Sections of the L5I:

Germany

Germany: Right-wing coup plotters: A portent of things to come?

On 7 December, the German Federal Public Prosecutor's Office mobilised 3,000 police officers and special forces in the largest anti-terrorist operation in the history of the Federal Republic. Read more...

After the party congress: the agony of the Left Party

On the weekend of 25/26 June, the G7 met at Schloss Elmau near Garmisch-Partenkirchen under the banner of the Ukraine war and the economic crisis. Read more...

Germany: Viva, viva Palestine! - Protest actions despite demo bans in Berlin

Despite a massive police presence on Berlin's streets and especially in the district of Neukölln, despite massive repression and numerous arrests, a ban on all public pro-Palestinian rallies in the ca Read more...

Germany: DGB on May Day - Protests against national closing of ranks

203,500 people took part in the trade unions' demonstrations and rallies on 1 May 2022, according to the DGB. Read more...

Germany rearms

When the U-turn came, it came fast. At a special session of Germany's Bundestag on Sunday, February 27, it was agreed to more than double the Army's budget to 100 billion euros. Read more...

Left Party Strategy: Not even old wine in a new bottle

Germany's Left Party, DIE LINKE, is once again invoking a new dawn. Read more...

Germany: The "traffic light" coalition

Almost three months after the general election, Germany has a new government. Read more...

Compulsory vaccination against the Fourth Wave?

In Germany, as in other European countries, the fourth wave of the covid pandemic is gaining momentum. Read more...

The Left Party's election debacle: a well deserved disaster

Even before September 26, it was certain that the Left Party, DIE LINKE, would lose votes and seats. Read more...

German elections: Life in the old dog yet

Germany: Elections and the political crisis of the bourgeoisie

With less than a week before Germany's general elections, the latest polls, from September 16, show the SPD, with 26 percent, ahead of the CDU/CSU on 22 percent and the Greens on 15 percent. Read more...

German Homes Ltd: Yes to a referendum, Yes to expropriation!

With some 250,000 valid signatures, the campaign "Expropriate Deutsche Wohnen & Co." (DWE - Expropriate "German Homes and Co") achieved the best result ever for a Berlin referendum in June. Read more...

Germany: After the strike is before the strike!

A 48-hour strike on Germany's railways has highlighted several key issues, and not just for railway workers. Read more...

Germany: Riding a political roller-coaster instead of fighting the pandemic

The stalemate goes on. Read more...

Germany: The state elections and the fall of the CDU

In the run-up to the elections, the state elections in Rhineland-Palatinate and Baden-Württemberg were regarded by the bourgeois public as indicators of the coming federal elections. Read more...

A step in the right direction: Zero Covid!

The Corona pandemic, with its more than 2 million deaths worldwide so far, is certainly the most dangerous fast-spreading global epidemic since the Spanish flu. Read more...

Germany: 30 years of reunification, nothing to celebrate

The big celebration in Potsdam for Germany's Day of Unity had to be cancelled because of the pandemic. Read more...

Germany: Crisis, pandemic and the looming flood of corona deniers

The second wave of corona deniers, ranging from Querdenken 711 ("Lateral Thinking 711") to the Alternative fuer Deutschland, AfD and various right-wing groups to the Reich Citizens, the Identitarian M Read more...

Germany: The second wave of the corona-sceptics?

It was an eerie sight: up to 30,000 corona "sceptics" and direct deniers of the pandemic demonstrating in Berlin on August 1. Read more...

Germany: Government pulling out of a nosedive ?

A crisis was not unexpected in 2020. Many Marxists, including us, had predicted it long before the Corona pandemic, although not its historical extent. Read more...

Germany: May Day, a first balance sheet

First of all, the positive part of the political balance: Despite a nationwide ban on demonstrations, despite the restrictions on demonstrations to 20-50 people depending on the federal state, thousan Read more...

Germany: Covid-19 and domestic violence

It is often claimed that the bourgeois family is a place of security, protection and the closest solidarity in society. Read more...

Germany: Class struggle opposition organising in the unions

On January 25/26, Frankfurt/Main saw a “Conference on Strategy” organised by and for left trade unionists. About 150 militants answered the call from the Network for Militant Trade-unions, VKG. Read more...

Germany: Right extremist terror in Hanau

Nine lives were lost in the most recent extreme right-wing terrorist attack in Germany. Read more...

Germany: Tragedy and farce in Thuringia

"Hegel remarks somewhere that all facts and personages of great importance in world history occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce." Read more...

Germany: Is the Grand Coalition coming to an end?

In the election of the two-person, one female, one male, leadership of the SPD, the party's members voted against the representatives of the party establishment, the finance minister and vice-chancell Read more...

Thuringia after the election: where now for the Left Party?

Thuringia marked the low point of the recent East German state elections. Read more...

Germany: Antisemitic attack in Halle

For a long time, the growth of Right wing terrorism in Germany has been downplayed or even denied outright. On Wednesday, October 9, it once again showed the reality of its bloody, inhuman face. Read more...

Berlin Housing: Expropriation - yes of course! Compensation - no thanks!

The Berlin initiative "Expropriate Deutsche Wohnen (German Homes) & Co." has hit the city like a bomb. Read more...

Fridays for Future: System change - not climate change!

Worldwide, hundreds of thousands of students are striking and demonstrating, Friday after Friday, against the threatening, catastrophic consequences of climate change. Read more...

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