Author: Alban Werner With the government stumbling from one crisis to the next, will the Left be able to regain momentum? At the beginning of 2024, millions of people in Germany began protesting against the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD). There had been demonstrations against the far right before, but never at this scale and […]
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Against the Logic of Violence. The Rosa Luxemburg Foundation mourns all the victims of the violence in Israel and Palestin.
The horrific images of murder, hostage-taking, and destruction in Israel and Palestine bear witness to an inhuman brutality that deeply disturbs us. We are shocked by the attacks of Hamas on innocent civilians in Israel. We are also shocked by the closure and bombardment of the Gaza Strip, which primarily affects a defenceless civilian population. […]
A Decade of Right-Wing Radicalization
A Decade of Right-Wing Radicalization Ten years after its founding, the Alternative für Deutschland shows no sign of moderating its politics by Gerd Wiegel* The rise of Germany’s leading right-populist party, the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) or “Alternative for Germany”, is unprecedented in the German political system. The AfD won 10.3 percent in the autumn […]
Jin – Jiyan – Azadi: Women, Life, Freedom
It’s several days now that the women in Iran are standing united, protesting, cutting their hair in public, building fires and burning their hijabs. Next to them, in demonstrations violently cracked down by the police, we see young men. The brutal murder of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, during her detainment by the morality police on the […]
