By Emilia Salvanou* On Sunday, November 24, 2024, Member of Parliament Sokratis Famellos was elected the new leader of SYRIZA, marking a pivotal moment in the party’s history. Yet, within days of his election, SYRIZA lost its status as the Government’s official opposition, underscoring the party’s ongoing struggle to redefine its position in Greece’s […]
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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 […]
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. […]
The imprisoned former leader of the Nazi criminal organization Golden Dawn, appears on the ongoing second degree trial, in order to promote the ‘Spartans’ which appeared suddenly in the June elections and made it into parliament with 12 MPs. ©Marios Lolos The result of the parliamentary election of 25 June 2023 in Greece […]
The shock of the results of the Greek parliamentary elections on May 21, 2023 is profound. The ruling conservative New Democracy is expected to win an absolute majority of parliamentary seats in the second election on June 25, 2023 due to the changed electoral system they imposed. The course of the conservative party will lead […]
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The defeat of the 1848 Revolution paved the way for Germany’s subsequent reactionary path to unification and beyond By Albert Scharenberg* Over the next few days, one could expect German society to commemorate the one-hundred-and-seventy-fifth anniversary of the 1848 Revolution. It was this revolution, after all, that led to the creation of the first national […]
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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 […]
