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4 July 2008
European Union crisis
Former German foreign minister demands more determination and
less democratic scruples
2 July 2008
New
round of job cuts at German-based Siemens
28 June 2008
German Social Democrats in free-fall
Right-wing seeks to topple party chairman
25 June 2008
Germany:
Students protest planned education cuts
24 June 2008
German
state of Hesse abolishes student fees
17 June 2008
Germany:
A political balance sheet of the Berlin transport strike
14 June 2008
German
government increases police spying powers
12 June 2008
Bush
in Germany beats drum for war against Iran
10 June 2008
German
Social Democratic Party in crisis
9 June 2008
Angry
German farmers rally in Berlin
6 June 2008
German
rail union in crisis
4 June 2008
Former
German foreign minister warns of Israeli strike against Iran
3 June 2008
German
dairy farmers strike against low milk prices and high energy
costs
31 May 2008
German
Left Party holds its first congress
30 May 2008
Tensions mount in the grand coalition German Social Democrats put forward their own presidential
candidate
28 May 2008
Large
majority vote against deal following Berlin transport strike
24 May 2008
Government wealth distribution report
Germany: The growing gulf between rich and poor
21 May 2008
German
parliamentary deputies award themselves hefty pay rise
19 May 2008
Further
job cuts at German-based Siemens
17 May 2008
Berlin transport workers vote on contract How should workers proceed?
Berlin transport strike: Workers write to the WSWS
about Verdi sell-out
15 May 2008
Berlin transport workers' strike
The WSWS editorial board replies to a Verdi shop steward
13 May 2008
Germany:
From union boss to company executive--the case of Norbert Hansen
10 May 2008
Germany:
Verdi blocks postal strike
9 May 2008
SEP/ISSE public meetings in Germany
1968: The lessons for today
8 May 2008
Verdi agrees to sell-out in Berlin transport workers
strike
Vote no on the deal!
6 May 2008
Former
German president urges no let-up in right-wing agenda
29 April 2008
Verdi union sabotages Berlin transport workers' strike
Chronology of a sellout
28 April 2008
Germany:
The SPD's bogus minimum wage campaign
26 April 2008
Hamburg:
First-ever state coalition between Greens and the CDU
24 April 2008
Berlin
referendum directed against the Senate
19 April 2008
German
SPD opens the door for rail privatisation
18 April 2008
German
business leaders and politicians denounce pension increase
11 April 2008
Germany: Bavarian bank hit hard by financial crisis
Population to pay for speculation
10 April 2008
A
political balance sheet of the German train drivers strike
5 April 2008
German
public sector pay dispute: Workers need a new political perspective
2 April 2008
US,
Germany clash over NATO expansion plan
25 March 2008
Germany:
Turkish youth dies in police custody
22 March 2008
Germany:
The shrinking middle class and the rise of inequality
20 March 2008
Verdi
trade union prepares sell-out of Berlin transport strike
18 March 2008
GDL
union completes sell-out of German train drivers' struggle
14 March 2008
Left
Party attacks striking transport workers in Berlin
13 March 2008
Tensions
between France and Germany intensify over foreign and economic
policy
Germany: Roland Koch remains prime minister in Hesse
How the SPD right wing overturned an unwanted election result
10 March 2008
Germany:
Public sector strike needs a new political perspective
8 March 2008
Germany: Public service workers strike
Explosive mood in factories, offices, nurseries and hospitals
7 March 2008
Striking
Berlin transit workers speak out
6 March 2008
Berlin
transit workers go on strike
4 March 2008
Germany:
SPD state minister berates welfare recipients
3 March 2008
Germany:
What lies behind the attempts to ostracise the Left Party?
28 February 2008
Siemens
axes 7,000 jobs worldwide
Germany: CDU woos the Greens in Hamburg state election
Reader's letter on the closure of the Nokia factory
in Bochum, Germany
27 February 2008
Germany:
Unemployed man starves himself to death
26 February 2008
Germany's
role in the secession of Kosovo
23 February 2008
Tax evasion in Germany and the campaign for "moral
leadership"
The case of Klaus Zumwinkel
21 February 2008
Germany:
Union and works council announce final shutdown of Nokia factory
19 February 2008
Germany:
Turkish prime minister incurs wrath of politicians and the media
15 February 2008
Hesse after the election
Germany's Left Party woos the SPD
14 February 2008
An
exchange on the result of the election in Hesse, Germany
12 February 2008
Germany:
Nine Turkish immigrants die in house fire
9 February 2008
German
train drivers oppose contract deal
7 February 2008
Berlin
transport workers strike
6 February 2008
Joschka
Fischer demands German combat troops be sent to southern Afghanistan
5 February 2008
Europe:
Nokia unions side with management
30 January 2008
German
state elections reveal pronounced shift to the left by electorate
26 January 2008
Germany holds state elections in shadow of world financial
crisis
Vote for the PSG
Germany: PSG candidate speaks at student demonstration--"Education
is a fundamental right!"
25 January 2008
Fishing
for coalition partners, German Greens intervene in Hesse elections
24 January 2008
PSG
candidate demands immediate withdrawal of German army from Afghanistan
21 January 2008
Germany: Nokia announces closure of its Bochum factory
The fight to defend jobs needs an international strategy
19 January 2008
Germany: Train drivers union submits to government
and management
Drivers must reject the new contract!
17 January 2008
"Muslims
in Germany" study: State-propagated racism under the guise
of science
16 January 2008
Behind the rhetoric at Wiesbaden election meeting
German Left Party seeking a deal with the SPD in Hesse
12 January 2008
Germany:
PSG candidate challenges chairman of the Left Party
11 January 2008
Germany: Right-wing campaign in the Hesse state election
The debate over youth crime
10 January 2008
Rock-bottom
wages for German postal workers
7 January 2008
Koch stokes the flames of racism
German state premier campaigns against "foreign criminals"
4 January 2008
German
SEP candidate condemns anti-immigrant campaign in Hesse
2 January 2008
Germany:
Partei für Soziale Gleichheit (Socialist Equality Party)
manifesto for Hesse state elections
31 December 2007
Germany: PSG election meeting in Giessen:
“Everything depends on a new political development by
the working class”
28 December 2007
Germany:
BMW announces 8,000 job cuts
22 December 2007
German
train drivers union announces new strikes
21 December 2007
The
debate in Germany over executive compensation and the minimum
wage
19 December 2007
Germany:
The sale of SachsenLB bank--bailing out speculators at public
expense
18 December 2007
Dresden:
Over 10,000 students rally against new state education law
17 December 2007
Germany:
PSG holds first election meeting in Hesse
15 December 2007
Der Spiegel churns out
old lies on the October Revolution
14 December 2007
The Hesse state election:
The Left Party offers its services to the SPD
13 December 2007
Germany:
a positive response to the PSG election campaign in Hesse
12 December 2007
PSG election meeting in Frankfurt
For a socialist answer to the social disaster
11 December 2007
"Marx
is a must" conference in Berlin: Providing cover for the
social democratic bureaucracies
8 December 2007
GDL leadership prepares sell-out
German train drivers must take strike into their own hands
6 December 2007
The
privatisation of the German railways system and the train drivers
strike
5 December 2007
German
Socialist Equality Party certified to participate in Hesse state
elections
4 December 2007
Germany:
Union agrees fundamental restructuring at Siemens
1 December 2007
The
Left Party and the German train drivers strike—an exchange
of letters
29 November 2007
An
open letter to striking train drivers from the Socialist Equality
Party of Germany
26 November 2007
Germany:
Neo-Nazi attack in Dortmund restaurant
23 November 2007
Germany:
Left Party opposes train drivers' strike
19 November 2007
All
workers must mobilize behind German train drivers' strike
17 November 2007
German
rail strike: report from Berlin and Frankfurt-Main
German train drivers intensify their strike
15 November 2007
Germany: The resignation of Franz Müntefering
The beginning of the end for the grand coalition
13 November 2007
German Chancellor Merkel sides with Bush
US president repeats "Third World War" warning
5 November 2007
Germany:
Court lifts strike ban against train drivers
2 November 2007
Germany:
Court to rule on train drivers strike
1 November 2007
German court to decide on right to strike:
"If the right to strike is being trampled underfoot then
I expect support"
Interview with two striking train drivers
31 October 2007
German
Social Democratic congress upholds austerity program and coalition
with conservatives
30 October 2007
Leading
German politician issues alarm about threat of war with Iran
29 October 2007
Germany:
Interviews with striking train drivers
27 October 2007
German
Social Democrats, unions fear losing control over the working
class
German Socialist Equality Party (PSG) organizes meetings
to support the train drivers' strike
26 October 2007
European
Court of Justice overturns "Volkswagen Law"
24 October 2007
German
train drivers' strike: GDL union leader appeals to the chancellor
22 October 2007
Germany:
Social Democratic chairman attacks train drivers
20 October 2007
Another
letter from a German train driver
19 October 2007
Train
drivers step up strike action in Germany
Letter
from a German train driver
17 October 2007
German train-drivers strike:
Deutsche Bahn increases intimidation of train-drivers
13 October 2007
German
Socialist Equality Party election campaign: For a socialist answer
to welfare cuts and war
German train drivers' strike affects large part of
rail network
PSG leaflet provokes vital discussion
11 October 2007
Support
the German train drivers' struggle against Deutsche Bahn!
Germany: Real wages plunge
8 October 2007
German
court attacks train drivers strike
5 October 2007
Germany:
Train drivers need a new perspective
3 October 2007
Following
election of new leader, German CSU moves further to the right
1 October 2007
German
chancellor threatens Iran and demands seat on UN Security Council
25 September 2007
German
Greens hold special congress on Afghanistan
19 September 2007
Why
is the German press silent on US preparations for war against
Iran?
18 September 2007
Berlin:
SPD and Left Party extend state surveillance
15 September 2007
German
candidate pushes suicide device for Hamburg elderly
14 September 2007
Germany:
Greens to hold special party congress on Afghanistan
11 September 2007
German
Left Party leadership forces Hesse state candidate to resign
Gleichheit editorial: "A
socialist strategy against militarism and war"
7 September 2007
Germany:
Terror plot carried out under police observation
6 September 2007
Germany:
train drivers' union capitulates Ludwig
5 September 2007
German
bank loss only the start
1 September 2007
Berlin:
Left Party opposes wage demand of public service workers
31 August 2007
German
politicians deny responsibility for racist attack
30 August 2007
Founding conference of German Left Party in Hessen
Aged trade unionists, disgruntled Social Democrats and former
Stalinists
27 August 2007
Berlin sociologist detained for three weeks Science
under the suspicion of terrorism
25 August 2007
Increasing
numbers of German children live in poverty
23 August 2007
Right-wing
mob attacks group of Indians in eastern Germany
21 August 2007
The
widening gulf between official German politics and the electorate
20 August 2007
Germany:
"Human Rights in Times of Terror" by Rolf Gössner
16 August 2007
German
Social Democrats and Greens seek increase in Afghanistan troop
levels
15 August 2007
The
political way forward for the German train drivers' struggle
8 August 2007
Train
drivers vote by huge majority for strike action
2 August 2007
German
trade unions step up strike-breaking in train driver's dispute
1 August 2007
Germany:
As private equity companies boom, social democrats advise the
"locusts"
31 July 2007
German
army and air force deployed against G8 summit demonstrators
20 July 2007
The
political issues posed by the German train drivers' struggle
17 July 2007
Hessian
culture minister calls for creationism to be discussed in German
schools
13 July 2007
"Green"
capitalism: German Greens adopt new economic programme
12 July 2007
German
rail dispute: two unions act as strike-breakers
11 July 2007
German
minister calls for internment and assassination of terror suspects
6 July 2007
The
German rail strike and the lessons of the Telekom betrayal: Build
a mass movement against the grand coalition government!
30 June 2007
German
government complicity in CIA abductions: The case of Khaled al-Masri
28 June 2007
Germany: The founding of the "Left Party"
Oskar Lafontaine's demagogic clichés
25 June 2007
Germany: Union sells out Deutsche Telekom strike--agrees
to wage cuts and longer working hours
Vote "no" on the contract!
22 June 2007
German-Polish
conflict dominates EU summit
21 June 2007
Kurt Waldheim (1918-2007)
Ex-UN chief's Nazi past covered up
20 June 2007
Germany:
Huge security operation exposed in wake of G8 summit
18 June 2007
Germany:
What does the "Left Party" want to achieve?
14 June 2007
Four days after the G8 summit
German police raid eleven premises on suspicion of "terrorism"
13 June 2007
German
Greens on the road to coalitions with the conservative CDU
8 June 2007
German
high court upholds police ban on G8 summit protest
7 June 2007
Anti-G8
demonstration violence in Rostock: questions and contradictions
6 June 2007
Global
social, political tensions dominate G8 summit
4 June 2007
Germany:
Police use massive force against G8 demonstrators in Rostock
2 June 2007
The
G8 summit and the Left Party of Germany
1 June 2007
Tens of thousands to protest on eve of G8 summit
Fight against war and social reaction requires a socialist strategy
31 May 2007
Asia-Europe summit in Hamburg
Germany: Huge police deployment in run-up to G8 summit
29 May 2007
Germany:
Verdi prepares sell-out of Telekom workers strike
25 May 2007
Heiligendamm's "Green Zone"
Massive security preparations for upcoming G8 summit in Germany
22 May 2007
Germany: Deutsche Telekom strike enters second week
Strikers protest in Munich
17 May 2007
Support
the Deutsche Telekom strikers! Build a mass movement against
the German grand coalition!
16 May 2007
Bremen:
Massive opposition to the German government expressed in local
election
Germany: Background to the debate over child care
15 May 2007
Germany:
Deutsche Telekom workers begin strike against lower wages and
longer hours
14 May 2007
Germany: Essen meeting discusses establishing International
Students for Social Equality
A movement against war must be a movement against capitalism
11 May 2007
Under the pretext of the "struggle against terror"
German police conduct massive operation against G8 protesters
10 May 2007
German
Left Party honours the founding of the centrist Independent Social
Democratic Party
7 May 2007
German
Interior Minister questions the presumption of innocence--with
support from the SPD
4 May 2007
Following political and legal campaign
PSG hosts successful May 1 lecture at Schöneberg city hall,
Berlin
30 April 2007
PSG May 1 meeting to be held in Schöneberg city
hall
Berlin Court rules against district office
27 April 2007
Berlin district council meeting upholds ban on PSG
meeting
Councillor admits decision politically motivated
26 April 2007
PSG
takes legal action against Berlin district office over meeting
ban
23 April 2007
Berlin
district office cancels meeting room for PSG meeting on May 1
19 April 2007
Balance sheet of the German trade unions
Wages for workers sink, salaries for managers skyrocket
18 April 2007
Germany:
Green Party attacks peace marches
14 April 2007
German
media, politicians launch chauvinist campaign over a "Muslim
takeover" of Germany
9 April 2007
Germany:
Left Party and Election Alternative seal their merger
5 April 2007
Germany:
Arbeiterpresse Verlag presents its 2007 publishing programme
at the Leipzig Book Fair
30 March 2007
EU celebrations in Berlin
Germany pushes for great power politics behind a European facade
27 March 2007
Redistribution from the bottom to the top
German parliament cuts corporate taxes
23 March 2007
Joschka
Fischer calls for European great power politics under German
leadership
22 March 2007
The Forbes list of billionaires
Wealth piles up for the German elite
21 March 2007
Dispute over US missile plan
German foreign minister warns against return to the Cold War
19 March 2007
Day of action in Hamburg
Airbus union leaders turn rally over to right-wing politicians
16 March 2007
Condolences
on the death of Comrade Senthil from the Socialist Equality Party
of Germany
15 March 2007
Germany
to deploy Tornado jet fighters to Afghanistan
13 March 2007
Deutsche Telekom to outsource 55,000 jobs
Increased working hours and wage cuts
10 March 2007
Germany:
New university tuition fees threaten students with poverty
9 March 2007
Iraq war resister convicted in Germany Increasing
numbers of US soldiers refuse to serve in Iraq
8 March 2007
Germany:
Release of ex-Red Army Faction terrorists sparks hysterical debate
7 March 2007
Antiwar
forum in Berlin: silence on role of US Democrats in Iraq war
21 February 2007
Germany:
ISSE holds Berlin meeting on US war plans against Iran
17 February 2007
EU conference in Dresden
German Interior Minister Schäuble advocates police state
measures
12 February 2007
German
cabinet agrees to deploy Tornado fighter planes in Afghanistan
10 February 2007
Former
SS officers sentenced for massacre in Marzabotto, Italy
9 February 2007
Germany's
Left Party holds student congress to promote reformist politics
6 February 2007
Germany:
Guantánamo detainee Murat Kurnaz and the politics of the
SPD
3 February 2007
Germany:
Wide divisions among Christian Democrats
2 February 2007
Munich,
Germany: Arrest warrants issued against 13 CIA agents
1 February 2007
Who runs Germany?
The intersection of politics and business interests
27 January 2007
Top
Volkswagen executives on trial for corruption in Germany
26 January 2007
German
chancellor assures Bush of "broad support"
25 January 2007
Germany's
former SPD-Green government blocked release of Guantánamo
prisoner Murat Kurnaz
23 January 2007
Germany:
War, social cuts and the role of the Left Party-PDS
17 January 2007
Germany:
How "Socialist Alternative" blocks the building of
an independent socialist movement
16 January 2007
Poll
shows 82 percent of Germans feel politically disenfranchised
13 January 2007
Crisis
in Germany's Christian Social Union
11 January 2007
German
interior minister seeks to introduce martial law measures
8 January 2007
German
chancellor Merkel snuggles up to Bush
4 January 2007
Social
inequality on the increase in Germany and Europe
30 December 2006
Germany:
Left Party-PDS and Election Alternative agree on a common reformist
program
27 December 2006
German
government considers deploying air force in Afghanistan
23 December 2006
German
Social Democratic Party chairman badmouths the unemployed
22 December 2006
Report
exposes European complicity in CIA torture flights
Berlin Senate adopts new austerity measures
18 December 2006
The
German chancellor and the Baker-Hamilton report
15 December 2006
German
top banker and Mannesmann executives buy themselves free
13 December 2006
The
role played by German VW works councils in the attack on Belgian
workers' jobs
9 December 2006
German
Green Party congress: "Peace" from the barrel of a
gun
1 December 2006
German
Left Party leaders pay tribute to deceased spy boss Markus Wolf
29 November 2006
Berlin
panel discussion on Kosovo: Marxism vs. nationalism
27 November 2006
German
parliament extends participation in the "war on terror"
24 November 2006
Germany: Election Alternative prepares for merger
with Left Party
An exemplary case of political opportunism
22 November 2006
A terrible consequence of social polarisation and
militarism
School shooting and suicide in Germany
14 November 2006
Germany:
New Berlin senate intensifies austerity course
13 November 2006
Grand coalition government submits White Paper
New role for German Army
9 November 2006
Germany's
role in illegal US "anti-terror" activities
8 November 2006
Former
German Chancellor Schröder's right-wing offensive
2 November 2006
The
case of Murat Kurnaz: German complicity in US war crimes
27 October 2006
Grisly
photos expose real nature of Germany's "peace mission"
in Afghanistan
Germany: Siemens-BenQ and the role of the unions
25 October 2006
Germany:
Court ruling on Berlin budget deepens social divisions
24 October 2006
Germany:
Mass demonstrations against social and welfare cuts
21 October 2006
Statement
of German SEP: Fight against job and welfare cuts requires an
international socialist perspective
20 October 2006
Debate over mass poverty in Germany
A devastating indictment of the former SPD-Green government
14 October 2006
Following Senate elections
SPD and Left Party-PDS seek to continue Berlin coalition
11 October 2006
Germany:
Insolvency of former Siemens division threatens 3,000 jobs
4 October 2006
Campaign
against Muslims in Germany generates Mozart opera controversy
28 September 2006
The
bankruptcy of the "left" state government in Berlin:
political experiences and lessons--Part 2
27 September 2006
The
bankruptcy of the "left" state government in Berlin:
political experiences and lessons--Part 1
23 September 2006
The
extreme-right NPD wins seats in German election
20 September 2006
State elections in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Western
Pomerania
Vote of no confidence in Germany's governing parties
16 September 2006
Berlin
hospital workers begin strike
15 September 2006
Pope
visits Bavaria: A broadside against the Enlightenment
German deputy minister of culture visits Weimar
An affront to the victims of fascism
14 September 2006
German
government presses for military deployment in Lebanon
Berlin election: Socialist Equality Party defends
its perspective on German television
13 September 2006
Germany:
Socialist Equality Party to hold Berlin election rally
12 September 2006
Germany:
Political lessons of the hospital doctors' strike
5 September 2006
“Green”
politics and imperialism: The case of Joschka Fischer
2 September 2006
Germany:
Health "reforms" at the expense of the working population
29 August 2006
Guantánamo prisoner released
Role of Germany's former SPD-Green government in Murat Kurnaz's
detention
28 August 2006
Germany:
Democratic rights under attack following arrest of alleged bombers
19 August 2006
Günter
Grass and the Waffen SS
18 August 2006
German
company profits explode
14 August 2006
German
Socialist Equality Party election meeting in Berlin
Thousands march in Germany to protest US-Israeli war
against Lebanon
12 August 2006
Social
inequality in Germany reaches record levels
9 August 2006
German
doctors strike: Verdi trade union continues its strike-breaking
role
7 August 2006
Antiwar
vigil in Berlin against Israeli aggression
5 August 2006
German
government expands political espionage powers
4 August 2006
Germany
joins US, British, Israeli axis of aggression
3 August 2006
German
doctors strike raises fundamental political questions
31 July 2006
Germany:
Protests demand immediate halt to Israeli war on Lebanon
28 July 2006
Joschka
Fischer and German Greens defend Israeli bombing terror in Lebanon
26 July 2006
German
Socialist Equality Party certified to stand candidates in Berlin
22 July 2006
Following Germany's uncritical support for Washington
and Jerusalem
How the German media reports on the Israeli aggression in Lebanon
15 July 2006
Rehashing ideological clichés One year since
Udo di Fabio published his book The Culture of Freedom
14 July 2006
Bush in Germany
Chancellor Merkel joins with Bush in backing Israeli aggression
13 July 2006
Germany:
junge Welt defends coalition between social democrats and neo-fascists
in Slovakia
10 July 2006
German
SEP candidates protest Democratic Party drive to bar socialist
candidate from the ballot in Illinois
8 July 2006
German
intelligence service spies on the Berlin Social Forum
6 July 2006
Germany:
Ten thousand demonstrate against university fees
5 July 2006
An
exchange of letters on the German "Election Alternative"
and "Socialist Alternative" groups
3 July 2006
Newly released files show
Postwar German government and CIA shielded Adolf Eichmann
Panasonic closes German factory despite hunger strike
Germany: SEP collects required signatures to stand
in Berlin elections
29 June 2006
The logic of trade union politics
"Left" publications in Germany defend strike-breaking
by Verdi union leaders
28 June 2006
Support
the Socialist Equality Party campaign for the Berlin Senate
20 June 2006
Week one of the World Cup
While millions celebrate, German government presses ahead
with its agenda
16 June 2006
Berlin
youth goes on a rampage--a symptom of a society in decline
8 June 2006
Germany:
Socialist Equality Party to run candidates in Berlin state elections
7 June 2006
Germany:
Public service union functions as agency of the state
1 June 2006
Europe's 'Green' militarists
German Green Party campaigns for Congo mission
31 May 2006
Germany:
Deportations increase as asylum applications plummet
Football World Cup 2006--a multibillion-euro business
26 May 2006
Germany:
Christian Democrats and Greens form coalition government in Frankfurt
24 May 2006
Germany:
Election Alternative leaders purge regional executives and withdraw
candidates
19 May 2006
German
secret service spies on journalists, employs Stasi methods
17 May 2006
Germany:
The murder of Hatun Sürücü and the debate over
"honour killings"
16 May 2006
German hospital physicians expand strike Conservative-led
states seek confrontation
13 May 2006
Tax
change law 2007 German government fleeces low and average wage
earners
9 May 2006
Germany:
Union officials back Volkswagen boss
8 May 2006
Germany's
Merkel sides with Bush against Iran
6 May 2006
Germany:
Election Alternative, the Socialist Alternative Group and Trotskyism
5 May 2006
Germany:
"Election Alternative" defends policies of Berlin state
government
4 May 2006
Duisburg-Essen University
Germany: Students protest implementation of tuition fees
1 May 2006
Volkswagen
autos to implement drastic savings program
17 April 2006
Germany:
Social Democratic Party loses another chairman
15 April 2006
In wake of state elections
German Greens, Conservatives draw closer together
14 April 2006
Gerhard
Schröder, Gazprom and German foreign policy
12 April 2006
German
politicians propagate xenophobia in reaction to Berlin school
violence
5 April 2006
German
engineering workers stage warning strikes
4 April 2006
CPE
à la Merkel: Job protection laws to be gutted in Germany
31 March 2006
Record attendance at Leipzig Book Fair
Peter Schwarz presents new German edition of Trotsky's In
Defence of Marxism
30 March 2006
Despite vote declines for CDU and SPD
German coalition parties hail state elections as mandate for
anti-social "reforms"
27 March 2006
Strikebreakers in the trade union leadership
Germany: Verdi union boss attacks striking doctors
22 March 2006
Polish
President Kaczynski visits Berlin
18 March 2006
Sixth
week of German public sector strike
Germany: 22,000 hospital physicians to strike
16 March 2006
Germany: The role of the trade union and works council
at Opel
A comment by Wolfgang Weber
14 March 2006
Arbeiterpresse Verlag represented
at this year's Leipzig Book Fair
10 March 2006
Germany:
parliamentary panel to probe intelligence service's role in Iraq
war
9 March 2006
Divisions
emerge in Germany's Left Party
8 March 2006
Germany:
IG Metall union capitulates to Electrolux
2 March 2006
New York Times raises new
charges against German intelligence
The
political tasks in the German public service strike
1 March 2006
Germany's
Left Party and the public service strike
28 February 2006
German
Constitutional Court strikes down Aviation Security Act
25 February 2006
German public workers strike
A discussion with Hamburg strikers: "It is much more serious
than 14 years ago"
21 February 2006
Anti-Muslim caricatures, anti-Islamic sentiments and
press freedom
The controversy over a cartoon in the German Tagesspiegel
20 February 2006
Germany:
New attempt to impose radical tax reform
18 February 2006
Verdi trade union expands labour dispute
German public service strike grows into confrontation with the
grand coalition
16 February 2006
Germany:
Former Green Party leader advocates European military role in
the Middle East
15 February 2006
German
army to deploy 2,000 troops for World Cup
13 February 2006
Berlin
and Strasbourg protests oppose the EU-Bolkestein Directive
11 February 2006
Volkswagen
to cut 20,000 jobs
9 February 2006
Germany:
Biggest public service strike for 14 years
8 February 2006
Munich
Security Conference: Imperialists close ranks
German engineers kidnapped in Iraq
21 January 2006
Germany:
Finance Minister Steinbrück's tirade against the welfare
state
18 January 2006
New citizenship tests
Germany: spying and discrimination against Muslims
14 January 2006
Germany:
the closure of Nuremberg's AEG works and the role of the unions
13 January 2006
German
Chancellor Merkel in Washington
German media reports on collusion of German intelligence
agents in Iraq war
11 January 2006
Germany:
politicians urge army's deployment for World Cup
10 January 2006
Germany:
Mannesmann corruption ruling unleashes new debate over "entrepreneurial
culture"
7 January 2006
Germany:
study draws devastating balance of the Hartz labour reforms
5 January 2006
Germany:
ice rink collapse leaves at least 14 dead
3 January 2006
Germany:
SPD-Green "reforms" spell bonanza for shareholders
31 December 2005
Greens
vs. Lefts Germany: a revealing debate on Sudan military deployment
28 December 2005
Germany:
Court penalises Opel worker
21 December 2005
German
Interior Minister Schäuble wants to lock up "dangerous
people"
20 December 2005
Germany:
Sacked Opel worker appeals to Industrial Court
19 December 2005
Life is good for the wealthy
Germany: Social inequality is constantly growing
17 December 2005
The case of Khalid al-Masri
German government complicit in the criminal activities of the
CIA
15 December 2005
Germany:
Ex-Chancellor Schröder launches corporate career
13 December 2005
German
Chancellor Merkel's state visit to Poland: you scratch my back,
I'll scratch yours
9 December 2005
German
Chancellor Merkel covers up for illegal CIA practices
8 December 2005
The
fate of hostage Susanne Osthoff and the role of the German government
6 December 2005
Germany:
Grand coalition leader Merkel sugar-coats program of social cuts
3 December 2005
Germany:
Protests against Samsung factory closure
1 December 2005
Deutsche
Telekom to slash 32 000 jobs
26 November 2005
Merkel
elected as Germany's chancellor: grand coalition to implement
social cuts
24 November 2005
SPD
party congress united behind Germany's grand coalition
22 November 2005
German
trade unions rally to the grand coalition
19 November 2005
German
coalition government accord: a declaration of war on working
people
16 November 2005
German
parliament snubs Left Party's chairman for fourth time
10 November 2005
From Franz Müntefering to Mathias Platzeck
The German Social Democrats: on the way to "New Labour"
3 November 2005
Germany:
SPD chairman resigns in midst of grand coalition talks
2 November 2005
German
minister employs Nazi vocabulary to describe long-term unemployed
29 October 2005
Big
business lobbies step up pressure on Germany's grand coalition
27 October 2005
Germany's
grand coalition leaders suppress internal party discussion
22 October 2005
The
new German parliament shows its true face
21 October 2005
Germany's
new parliament: democratic fig leaf of an authoritarian government
20 October 2005
German:
Interior Minister Schily's parting shot--a blatant attack on
freedom of the press
19 October 2005
What
can be expected from Germany's grand coalition?
15 October 2005
Right-wing
Social Democrat Steinbrück named finance minister in German
grand coalition
12 October 2005
Germany: Grand Coalition under chancellor Merkel
A government in defiance of the voters' will
7 October 2005
Germany: broad agreement for a grand coalition
Still no resolution of chancellorship
4 October 2005
Germany:
After Dresden by-election, chancellor question remains open
30 September 2005
The
coming grand coalition in Germany: illegitimate and undemocratic
28 September 2005
Germany:
SPD and union parties prepare for grand coalition
27 September 2005
German
court declares Iraq war violated international law
An
exchange on the German Greens
24 September 2005
Abandoning party posts after election
German Green leader clears way for collaboration with the right
22 September 2005
What
next after the German election?
21 September 2005
International
press pours scorn on German voters
Socialist Equality Party receives over 15,000 votes
in German elections
20 September 2005
German
election: a clear rejection of right-wing policies
17 September 2005
German
elections: Vote Socialist Equality Party on September 18
German government bans Kurdish paper and Palestinian
association
15 September 2005
Rapid
increase in child poverty in Germany The consequences of Hartz
IV
14 September 2005
The
lessons of the July 7 London bombings and the state murder of
Jean Charles de Menezes
13 September 2005
Socialist Equality Party (Germany) holds election
rally
"The most important cause of the disaster taking place
in the US lies not in nature, but in politics and society"
Germany: TV debate reveals electors have no real choice
10 September 2005
Lively
discussion at German Socialist Equality Party election meeting
German government to privatize air traffic control
7 September 2005
German elections: Conservative opposition meets in
Dortmund
A repulsive and reactionary spectacle
5 September 2005
Germany's
Left Party adopts a reformist program
2 September 2005
Increased
media coverage of PSG candidates in German federal elections
The PSG (Socialist Equality Party--Germany) election
spot
29 August 2005
German
parliamentary elections: Chancellor Schröder poses as opponent
of war
27 August 2005
Germany:
Constitutional Court legitimises new elections
24 August 2005
Germany:
growing social polarisation provokes opposition
23 August 2005
German elections: the "competence team"
of the conservative opposition
A hotbed of conflicting interests
19 August 2005
SPD's
program for German election: window dressing and lies
Germany Interior Minister Schily seeks introduction
of preventive detention
17 August 2005
Partei
für Soziale Gleichheit certified to take part in German
federal elections
15 August 2005
Germany:
why is the "Left Party" winning growing support in
the opinion polls?
4 August 2005
Germany: election program the CDU-CSU opposition
Right-wing, but not enough for the ruling elite
3 August 2005
Germany:
Turkish worker deported for drawing welfare benefits
27 July 2005
The
miserable end of the "Volkswagen model"
25 July 2005
German
president clears way for early elections
New name, old program
German Party of Democratic Socialism renames itself "The
Left Party"
21 July 2005
German
Green Party election program--tailored to the interest of big
business
19 July 2005
PDS,
unions impose wage cut on Berlin transit workers
2,000 signatures collected
Germany: PSG campaign finds a positive response in Hesse
15 July 2005
Germany:
North Rhine Westphalia government adopts austerity programme
14 July 2005
Further
shift to the right by the German Green Party
9 July 2005
Germany: the career of Christian Democratic Union
leader Angela Merkel
Part 2: From Kohl's "little girl" to the conservatives'
chancellor candidate
8 July 2005
Germany: the career of Christian Democratic Union
leader Angela Merkel
Part 1: East Germany--youth and political beginnings
4 July 2005
Chancellor Schröder justifies no-confidence vote:
New German elections aimed at breaking resistance to Agenda 2010
Germany: powerful response to PSG election campaign
1 July 2005
Schröder
at the White House: cuddling up to Bush
29 June 2005
For social equality. For the United Socialist States
of Europe. Vote PSG.
Statement of the Partei für Soziale Gleichheit (Socialist
Equality Party) on the 2005 German elections
25 June 2005
Germany
begins deportations of Afghan refugees
24 June 2005
Germany:
report exposes massive state spying
17 June 2005
German
chancellor says he will not yield on Agenda 2010 cuts
15 June 2005
Germany:
sacked Opel worker fights victimisation
3 June 2005
Germany:
divisions and conflicts within the SPD-Green coalition
24 May 2005
Germany:
Schröder calls for early federal election after Social Democratic
debacle in North Rhine Westphalia
20 May 2005
Election in North Rhine-Westphalia
The implications of the SPD's decline
13 May 2005
Germany:
tribunal hears case of victimised Opel worker
12 May 2005
Germany:
former SPD chairman Lafontaine and the Election Alternative
11 May 2005
60 years since the end of World War II Editorial
of Gleichheit, magazine of the Socialist Equality Party
(Germany)
9 May 2005
Germany:
Foreign Minister Fischer crawls before the right-wing opposition
28 April 2005
German
Interior Minister Schily tests out "zero tolerance"
in Berlin
23 April 2005
Germany:
neo-Nazi killer acquitted on "self-defense" grounds
Germany: conflicts in the Foreign Ministry over past
fascist links
22 April 2005
Germany:
facing defeat in state election, SPD chairman talks "left"
German
government uses anti-terror laws to head off protests
14 April 2005
German Social Democrats launch state election campaign
SPD candidate: "I am not promising jobs"
7 April 2005
Germany:
major churches, conservative opposition line up with US Christian
right on Schiavo case
31 March 2005
Germany:
parliament curbs freedom of speech and assembly
25 March 2005
Germany:
Interior Minister Schily bans Turkish newspaper
19 March 2005
Germany:
Foreign Ministry under fire in "visa affair"
16 March 2005
Germany: Opel works committee signs a "Pact for
the Future"
Union endorses wage cuts
10 March 2005
German
Chancellor Schröder's business trip to the Gulf States
5 March 2005
German
unemployment highest since 1933
26 February 2005
Spain:
record abstention in referendum on European Union constitution
25 February 2005
German
army to relieve US troops in Afghanistan
24 February 2005
Germany:
expansion of DNA testing--a step towards genetic registration
21 February 2005
Extraordinary
security measures for Bush visit to Germany
18 February 2005
Munich Security Conference
Schröder demands role for Germany as world power
9 February 2005
Germany
welcomes conference of war criminals, witch-hunts their opponents
5 February 2005
Germany:
5 million unemployed--worst since World War II
31 January 2005
Germany:
behind the ultra-right provocation in Saxony's parliament
29 January 2005
Rumsfeld charged with war crimes in Germany
May skip Munich conference
Germany: redundancies loom at Opel
21 January 2005
Germany: Hartz IV measures begin to bite Cheap
labour, harassment, massive cuts in jobless benefits
20 January 2005
Death by "drowning"
Germany: another African immigrant dies in police custody
4 January 2005
Germany:
leniency for deputy police chief who threatened torture
3 January 2005
Torture
practices in the German army
21 December 2004
Germany: report bares widening gap between rich and
poor
SPD-Greens preside over social polarisation
16 December 2004
Germany:
Election Alternative glorifies the state
15 December 2004
Germany: Opel to destroy 10,000 jobs
Cuts announced after union sell out
13 December 2004
The
Daschner case and the rehabilitation of torture in Germany
6 December 2004
Following
German Opel workers' strike: competition rages between GM plants
2 December 2004
Sacked German Opel worker: "Dismissals are aimed
at intimidating the work force" Interview with Turhan
Ersin
29 November 2004
Germany:
right-wing trajectory of conservative parties in wake of Bush
re-election
27 November 2004
The
debate over Muslim "parallel societies" in Germany
20 November 2004
After
Bush re-election: German Greens shift further to the right
17 November 2004
German
auto union head suggests GM cut US costs
16 November 2004
Fifth
German "Big Brother Awards": attacks on privacy denounced
13 November 2004
The
German media and Fallujah: accomplices to a war crime
5 November 2004
The crisis of capitalism and the defence of the working
class
Editorial of Gleichheit, magazine of the Socialist
Equality Party of Germany
Swedish union bureaucracy uses GM strike to undercut
German workers
2 November 2004
Following
strike in Germany GM fires Opel workers
26 October 2004
Historic
resonances in German foreign minister's statements
25 October 2004
Germany:
union, works committee stifle Opel strike in Bochum
Why is IG Metall sabotaging the struggle at Opel?
22 October 2004
GM
workers hold European-wide day of action against job cuts
The
political issues facing Opel workers
19 October 2004
Germany:
Opel cuts over 10,000 auto jobs
German Opel workers: "We cannot compete with
wages of 3-4 euros"
15 October 2004
German
Green Party congress: a middle-class party of German imperialism
5 October 2004
Fifteen
years after fall of Berlin wall: 50,000 march to oppose cutbacks
in Germany
The international crisis of capitalism and the bankruptcy
of the "social market economy"
4 October 2004
German
interior minister bans Islamic conference
23 September 2004
German
state elections: far-right NPD enters parliament in Saxony
21 September 2004
German
President Koehler says inequality must be the new norm
16 September 2004
Leipzig: "industrial beacon" and growing
poverty
Snapshot of an east German metropolis
14 September 2004
Germany:
Who is responsible for the increased vote for the extreme right?
10 September 2004
State
elections in the Saarland: support for Germany's SPD plummets
4 September 2004
Germany: Monday protests continue against Hartz IV
60,000 demonstrate in Leipzig
2 September 2004
The
Hartz IV measures in Germany and the international crisis of
capitalism
31 August 2004
Germany:
establishment parties unite behind Hartz IV laws
28 August 2004
Germany:
protests held in over 140 towns and cities
25 August 2004
The
Monday Demonstrations in Germany--1989 and today
21 August 2004
Germany:
Which way forward in the struggle against Hartz IV?
Mounting protests against social cuts in Germany Monday
demonstrations
20 August 2004
Germany:
political double talk--the PDS and the "Hartz IV" welfare
reforms
17 August 2004
Germany:
tens of thousands protest against government assault on welfare
state
Germany: Magdeburg demonstrators denounce Hartz IV
cuts
16 August 2004
Germany:
What is Oskar Lafontaine up to?
12 August 2004
Germany:
workers respond angrily to deal at DaimlerChrysler
6 August 2004
Ninetieth anniversary of the German SPD voting for
war
August 4, 1914, and its consequences
4 August 2004
German
interior minister proposes African internment camps for refugees
Germany:
Mannesmann execs acquitted in corruption trial
31 July 2004
Germany:
total union capitulation at DaimlerChrysler
29 July 2004
Lessons from Detroit
German DaimlerChrysler workers
face political tasks
27 July 2004
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