Germany

Articles

Europe’s far left narrowly misses a hat-trick by Leigh Phillips (October 2009)

Leigh Phillips analyses the far left results in the recent German, Portugese and Greek elections

Terror laws hit German left by Frank Meyer (September 2007)

The past few months have seen a wave of repression unleashed in Germany. Houses, offices, social centres and bookshops have been raided by police and several people accused of ‘membership of a terrorist organisation’ – sometimes for as little as having written academic texts about ‘gentrification’. Frank Meyer reports from Hamburg

Flunking the written by Christophe Spehr (August 2007)

The newly formed Die Linke (Left) party is breaking the rules of German politics to create a strongly rooted party to the left of the Social Democratic Party across Germany’s historic divide. Die Linke organiser Christophe Spehr reports

The End of ’Rhineland Capitalism’: Germany at the Crossroads by Peter Wahl (January 2004)

In the decades following the Second World War, Federal Germany established a social-welfare state which brought a measure of social security to the broad mass of the population unprecedented in German history. The German model also ranked highly in international terms.

Whatever happened to the German Greens? by Frieder Otto Wolf (August 2003)

Back in the early 1980s the West German Greens were a bastion of radicalism, challenging US imperialism, advocating pacifism and describing their own position as one of ’ecological socialism’. By the late 1990s the party seemed to have changed beyond all recognition: as a member of Gerhard Schroeder’s ’third way’ coalition, the Greens were defending radically neoliberal policies and staunchly supporting military interventions for humanitarian purposes.