The publication of a book by Thilo Sarrazin caused a storm of controversy in Germany over its racist conclusion. Martin Suchanek examines the arguments around the book Read more...

In a recent demonstration 100,000 marched against the government and the nuclear energy lobby, Martin Suchanek reports on the new social movement in Germany Read more...

English translation of the report from the solidarity demonstration in Berlin, June 2, in support of the Gaza flotilla Read more...

It is 20 years since the fall of the Berlin wall and the capitalist media is crowing. They say these great events were nothing more than a movement to bring down communism and bring back capitalism. Here, Peter Main shows how the struggle against the Stalinist dictatorship in East Germany in fact began as a struggle against bureaucratic controls and for working class freedoms – but the crisis of working class leadership meant that the Left handed the initiative to the right wing Read more...

The formation of the next German government is now only a question of formalities. Even the new government's programme, leaving aside the inevitable horse trading of coalition formation, is a certainty. It will be a right-wing government committed to a swingeing attack on the working class on a scale that has not been seen since the consolidation of postwar capitalism in the early 1950s. Read more...

Martin Suchanek reports on the German elections where the economic crisis is the main issue of debate Read more...

A report of the demonstrations in Germany in protest against Israel's attacks on Gaza. Read more...

Towards the end of the First World War, as the Russian Tsar's armies faced defeat, the workers of St. Petersburg and the city's garrison rose in revolution. Ten months later, under the leadership of the Bolshevik Party, they had established a republic based on workers' soldiers' and peasants' councils. The Bolsheviks, as they had promised, took Russia out of the war. Read more...