The Guardian • Germany
Issue #2057
US-NATO air war provocation
Germany has invited the US and its other NATO allies to start the biggest war provocation in history in its airspace this week. The simulated...
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Issue #2095
Israel, Palestine, and the world
The US is putting pressure on Israel to open up more corridors to allow aid in. At the same time, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin...
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Issue #2042
GLOBAL BRIEFS
GERMANY: Air traffic came to a virtual standstill on the 17th February with around 2340 flights cancelled. The strike affected almost 300,000 passengers. Germany’s flag...
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Issue #2094
Nicaragua calls Germany ‘pathetic’
Nicaragua has described Germany as “pathetic” for sending aid to Palestine and arms to Israel. The 43-page Nicaraguan submission to the International Court of Justice...
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Issue #2137
Gaza: peace so far away
Just recently night-time temperatures in Gaza dropped well below average. It meant that people living in temporary shelters, tents, and in the open, suffered even...
Read moreA survey of fascism in Australia
It’s 1919. Germany is in chaos after four years of war that ended in a humiliating defeat and surrender.
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Issue #2028
Germany faces stark choices as it celebrates its “unity”
In 1990, on 3rd October, Germany could rejoice; unity at last, a single flag, a single anthem (Deutschland über alles), a single currency, a single...
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Issue #2062
GLOBAL BRIEFS
SYRIA: The Syrians gave a green light last week for the United Nations to use a key crossing from Turkey to the country’s rebel-held north-west...
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Issue #2114
GLOBAL BRIEFS
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Hundreds of Dominicans demonstrated in front of the National Palace, Santo Domingo, demanding improvements to the Criminal Code. The protesters wanted a modern...
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Issue #2109
GLOBAL BRIEFS
USA: Postal workers are involved in the nation’s largest contract battle, as the American Postal Workers Union (APWU) fights for an improved collective bargaining agreement...
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Issue #2142
GLOBAL BRIEFS
FRANCE: President Emmanual Macron has stated that a historic injustice was imposed on Haiti when it was forced to pay a colossal indemnity to France...
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Issue #2043
GERMANY: Anti-war demonstrations were held in many countries last weekend, a year after the special operation in the Ukraine started. The largest by far was...
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Issue #2059
GLOBAL BRIEFS
SRI LANKA: Former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa is accused in a report of tampering with police records in a bid to hamper investigations into mass graves...
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Issue #2113
COLOMBIA: President Gustavo Petro has signed a decree prohibiting coal imports to Israel, citing the humanitarian crisis in Gaza caused by Israel’s ongoing military action....
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Issue #2048
GLOBAL BRIEFS
YEMEN: Saudi and Omani delegations arrived in Yemen to negotiate a permanent ceasefire deal with Houthi officials. The visit follows the Oman-mediated consultations between Saudi...
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Issue #2189
GLOBAL BRIEFS
GERMANY: Presently the United States has more than 36,000 troops stationed in Germany. It had planned for some time to reduce the number by withdrawing...
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Issue #2133
German election and the march of fascism
The German elections have caught the attention of the world. The far right of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) seem to be about to consolidate...
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Issue #2086
Death camps, slaves and profits
27 February will mark the liberation of the Nazi death camp at Owicim. Although located in the Polish province of Galicia, the site will forever...
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Issue #2135
GLOBAL BRIEFS
FRANCE: France is leaving another military base in Africa. It has handed over its only army base in Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) to the Western...
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Issue #2099
GLOBAL BRIEFS
UK: Communist Party general secretary Robert Griffiths has welcomed the results of local elections which “landed a red card to the Tories and a warning...
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Issue #2125
Profits regardless
There was much excitement and outrage in the United States a while back at revelations by US investigative writer, Edwin Black, that IBM made piles...
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Issue #2173
GLOBAL BRIEFS
HUNGARY: The current corruption scandal in Ukraine is “one of the most serious corruption scandals in the history of European politics,” the Hungarian Foreign Minister...
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Issue #2093
LETTERS
Genocide Dear Editor, The terrible ongoing genocide continues in Gaza. I’m utterly astounded that after mere allegations by Israel against a few staff out of...
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Issue #2182
GLOBAL BRIEFS
GERMANY: Thousands of students protested against a recently adopted law that could reinstate compulsory military service. The ‘School strike’ against the draft brought out more...
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Issue #2078
Colonial powers give “regrets” – not apologies
Recently the imperialist nations of Britain, Spain, and Germany, have expressed “regrets” for the atrocities they committed, but failed to acknowledge that the true horror...
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Issue #2077
GLOBAL BRIEFS
TURKIYE: The largest parade of ships and aircraft took place on 29 October in Istanbul to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the...
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Issue #2060
GLOBAL BRIEFS
PAKISTAN: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has agreed to provide $3 billion in a long-awaited bailout of the country’s impoverished economy. The nine-month agreement must...
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Issue #2047
GLOBAL BRIEFS
America: The Pentagon has blocked attempts by the US federal government to share alleged Russian war crimes in Ukraine with the International Criminal Court (ICC)...
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Issue #2140
GLOBAL BRIEFS
FRANCE: A Paris court has sentenced right-wing politician Marine Le Pen to a four-year jail term for embezzlement, half of which is without parole. Le...
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Issue #2195
GLOBAL BRIEFS
JAPAN: The Japanese government will send specialists to Greenland to study the possibility of mining rare earth metals and other critical minerals. Japan is seeking...
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Issue #2208
GLOBAL BRIEFS
GERMANY: NATO intelligence services found no evidence of Russian involvement in a recent drone incident at Leipzig Airport and informed their authorities accordingly, the Russian...
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Issue #2105
Europe being drawn into US trade war
There has been a meeting of G7 finance ministers and central bankers high on the agenda was China and how the G7 should respond to...
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Issue #2041
PEACE NOTES
Just 80 years after the end of World War II, German tanks are again threatening Russia. At an event commemorating the 80th anniversary of the...
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Issue #2097
Germany cracks down on behalf of Israel
Germany has clearly learned no lessons from history as it cracks down on pro-Palestine voices as part of its unwavering support for the Zionist project....
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Issue #2122
GLOBAL BRIEFS
EGYPT: Egypt has been certified as malaria free by the World Health Organisation (WHO). “Malaria is as old as Egyptian civilisation itself, but the disease...
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Issue #2205
GLOBAL BRIEFS
GERMANY: Germany’s Defence Minister Boris Pistorius and Baden-Wurttemberg Governor Cem Ozdemir have called for the opposition Alternative for Germany (AfD) party to be banned. The...
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Issue #2118
In gold we trust
In July 2024 Reuters reported an increasing number of countries were repatriating their gold reserves from the US and UK as protection against possible sanctions....
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Issue #2053
De-Sovietisation and the rise of the far right
This year’s Victory Day celebrations in Germany were held on 9th May at the Soviet Memorial Tiergarten in Berlin. Two men dressed in Soviet Union...
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Issue #2074
GLOBAL BRIEFS
USA: US Republican House Representative Marjory Taylor Greene has raised concerns about the weapons Hamas militants used in their attack on Israel. Greene suggested in...
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Issue #2136
Germany’s crisis of working-class politics
While attention is focused on the rise of the right-wing populist Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) – and liberal opinion in Britain anxiously parses the difference...
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Issue #2121
Israel: failed state
Israel is in the news every day, and seems to be a Middle East nuclear superpower. In reality it is a failed Zionist state. It...
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Issue #2119
GLOBAL BRIEFS
GERMANY: The co-leaders of the Greens, one of the three parties in Chancellor Olaf Scholtz’s troubled coalition, are to step down after the latest in...
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Issue #2141
GLOBAL BRIEFS
BRAZIL: Thousands of Indigenous people set up camps in Brasilia to defend their ancestral land rights and demand greater respect for Amazonian ecosystems. The ‘Free...
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Issue #2185
GLOBAL BRIEFS
UN: On 25 March 2025, the UN General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a resolution declaring the transatlantic slave trade and racialised slavery the “most grievous crime...
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Issue #2174
GLOBAL BRIEFS
BRAZIL: President Lula da Silva has announced the creation of two new higher education institutions – the Federal Indigenous University (UNIND) and the Federal University...
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Issue #2145
The End of Capitalism
This review is a public service. If you’re at all left-wing, it’s likely someone will see this book in a bookshop, note the cute cover...
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Issue #2111
New arms race in Europe
The signing of the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty between the USA and the Soviet Union, in 1988, was a break in Cold War...
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Issue #2123
GLOBAL BRIEFS
GEORGIA: In Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, fireworks marked the ruling party’s victory in the parliamentary elections on 26 October 2024. Voter turnout was 56...
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Issue #2134
LETTERS
Reform and Opening Up Comrade Editor A small note on the recent editorial on China: I note that the Editorial published 10 February places China’s...
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Issue #2134
Remembering the Soviet victims of Auschwitz and other death camps
Eighty years ago Soviet troops liberated the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination and labour camps. The Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum website gives a history of Poles and Jews killed at...
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Issue #2132
Death camps, slaves, and profits
The mass media and the leaders of many capitalist countries – including Australia – spent 27 January recalling the liberation of the Nazi death camp...
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Issue #2124
LETTERS
BSW and Left Unity Dear comrades, My name is Maxim Nicola and I am a member of The Left party from Germany. A comrade of...
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Issue #2112
ASIO and the Nazis
In the 1990s, then-PM John Howard went out of his way to protect the “rights” of accused Nazi war criminal Konrad Kalejs. Robert Greenwood, QC,...
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Issue #2138
GLOBAL BRIEFS
SYRIA: Russia’s air base at Hmeimim in Syria is sheltering about 9,000 people seeking refuge from a wave of sectarian violence. Most of the civilians...
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Issue #2159
PEACE NOTES
As celebrations for the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II conclude it is now the time to reflect on the damage it...
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Issue #2086
DINGO
Lithuania, claiming a threat from Russia, is ramping up military spending. “Everything we have we threw into Ukraine so that they will be able to...
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Issue #2118
Nature’s red alert
Large swathes of Europe, the US, Canada, China, Vietnam, Thailand, Bangladesh, Myanmar, South Africa, and Kenya are under water or in the process of dealing...
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Issue #2160
Cannon fodder from down under
A mother speaks to her son as he prepares to go to war: “Now as you go forth to do your master’s bloody business, ahead...
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Issue #2120
GREEN NOTES
Germany’s Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research has launched a Planetary Health Check (PHC), a first-of-its-kind scientific report and tool for the health of the...
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Issue #2094
Criminal Israel – Genocide by famine
The situation in Gaza is nothing short of a humanitarian catastrophe with the appalling suffering and loss of life and the urgent and deteriorating humanitarian...
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Issue #2155
BAN ALL NUCLEAR WEAPONS
We face the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, as the issues of war and peace are thrown into...
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