Germany’s declining middle class

5 January 2022 Thomas Klikauer - Catherine Link

Germany’s declining middle class

We might indeed need a new kind of economy with no bosses, no profit-maximisation, and no shareholder value!Thomas Klikauer – Catherine Link

23 December 2021 Thomas Klikauer - Meg Young

The Nazi language of German anti-vaxxers

A look into the rhetorical rebirth of Nazism in the context of corona crisisThomas Klikauer – Meg Young

9 December 2021 Thomas Klikauer

Mandatory Covid-19 vaccination in Germany

With Germany having recently passed the 100,000-death mark from Corona, the country’s debate over mandatory vaccination is heating up.Thomas KlikauerThomas Klikauer teaches MBA students at the Sydney Graduate School of Management at Western Sydney University in Australia. He was born in southern Germany about half way between Castle Frankenstein to

1 December 2021 András Juhász

ELMO: Right to housing struggles in Eastern Europe and the Berlin referendum

Using the Berlin referendum vote to expropriate large-scale landlords as a reference, ELMO’s roundtable brought together activists from movements in Romania, Serbia, Hungary and Germany to discuss struggles for the right to housing.András JuhászAndrás Juhász is a political activist from Zrenjanin, Serbia. He is a member of the editorial board of

26 November 2021 Julia Rone

The kitchen-floor debate or what does the left want?

A review of Anke Stelling’s “Higher Ground” from an Eastern European perspective.Julia RoneJulia Rone is a postdoctoral researcher at CRASSH, the University of Cambridge. She has a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence with a thesis on mobilizations against free trade agreements. Her current research explores contestations over

14 November 2021 Herman Michiel

The disastrous election defeat of the German Left

In the Bundestag elections of 26 September, Germany’s left party Die Linke achieved a dire result. Some 2.3 million people voted for the party, 2 million fewer than in 2017. What happened?Herman MichielThe author is the Belgian editor of the website Ander Europa (Another Europe). This is a Flemish-Dutch cooperation of activists

5 October 2021 Thomas Klikauer - Meg Young

Who bought Politico for a billion dollars? A right-wing German news conglomerate?

Axel Springer’s sense of political mission and ideological political program is characterized not by facts, but by emotions and his disappointed vanities – just like that of Rupert Murdoch.Thomas Klikauer – Meg Young

5 October 2021 Thomas Klikauer - Meg Young

Germany’s new neo-Nazis: the Reichsbürger

Germany’s antisemitic and semi-fascistic Reichsbürger, also known as sovereign citizens, create a lot of troublesThomas Klikauer – Meg Young

5 October 2021 Thomas Klikauer - Meg Young

Merkel, German men & motor cars

The power of the engine decides one’s status – the stronger and louder, the more masculinity. Thomas Klikauer – Meg Young

16 September 2021 Stefan Liebich

DIE LINKE on Bundeswehr Deployment in Afghanistan

Stefan Liebich – a member of the German Bundstag and vice chair of the Parliamentarians Group on the USA, on his party’s position on German military intervention, differing views within DIE LINKE, and the lessons to be drawn.Stefan LiebichStefan Liebich is a member of the German Bundstag and vice chair