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14/03/2016: Political crisis looms
11/03/2016: For a socialist, working class no campaign
10/03/2016: Cruel capitalist regimes responsible
09/03/2016: Crises for refugees - and the EU – continues
08/03/2016: The situation in Germany
07/03/2016: Working women’s fight for a world without oppression
04/03/2016: Bernie’s political revolution will be strangled if it remains imprisoned
within the corporate-controlled Democratic Party.
03/03/2016: Left makes important gains
01/03/2016: Two articles on the current situation in Turkey and Kurdistan
29/02/2016: Establishment parties in crisis, as a new Left rises
27/02/2016: Year of the Monkey opens with economy in worst situation for decades
26/02/2016: Huge enthusiasm for Bernie Sanders’ call for a political revolution
leads to serious challenge to Hillary Clinton
25/02/2016: #OutsourcingMustFall campaign becomes point of reference for the working
class
24/02/2016: The referendum on 23 June is not just about the EU but is also an
opportunity to pass verdict on Cameron and his rotten government
23/02/2016: Below, videos of TD’s (members of Irish Parliament) Paul Murphy and Ruth
Coppinger at a public meeting of the Anti-Austerity Alliance/People
Before Profit, after a mass demonstration of tens of thousands against
water charges in Dublin
20/02/2016: The “Arab Spring” revolutionary wave brought dictators in Tunisia and
Egypt crashing down. It swept through the Middle East, inspiring workers
and youth the world over. It has since ebbed, however, leaving the
region wracked with war and sectarian conflict.
19/02/2016: Five Star Movement can gain
18/02/2016: Israeli and Palestinian activists discuss resisting Nentanyahu and
urgent need to build socialist forces
17/02/2016: Analysis of the present situation in India from an internationalist
perspective
17/02/2016: “All together, workers and poor farmers, at Syntagma Square, against
austerity”
16/02/2016: Looming civil war can only be countered by a united struggle of working
people
15/02/2016: Huge potential for workers’ struggles
15/02/2016: Left must mobilise millions to militant anti-austerity banner & building
of political organisation to give it voice
13/02/2016: Build a #Movement4Bernie to Defeat the Billionaire Class and the
Democratic Party Establishment.
13/02/2016: A socialist approach
12/02/2016: Workers’ fury at austerity and capitalist system will find more
expression
12/02/2016: Union movement should step up call for nationalisation of threatened
factories
11/02/2016: Renewed economic crisis, wars, political polarisation & class struggle
perspectives
10/02/2016: Brutal policing must be condemned
09/02/2016: Crisis for imperialism and a fight-back from below
09/02/2016: All out in the struggle! Coordinate and develop the fight now!
08/02/2016: Opportunities will arise for working class and poor to organise
08/02/2016: Is ‘Modimania’ on the wane?
08/02/2016: CWI 11th World Congress document
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|  08/03/2016, The situation in Germany
By Sascha Stanicic, Sozialistische Alternative (CWI in Germany)
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|  16/10/2015, ‘Normality’ is the scandal
Georg Kümmel, Sozialistische Alternative (CWI Germany)
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|  14/10/2015, Polarising situation, but 250,000 march against free trade agreements
shows potential for mass resistance against establishment
Sascha Stanicic, Sozialistische Alternative (SAV – CWI Germany)national
spokesperson
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|  15/07/2015, No to the dictatorship of banks and big business – For a socialist
Europe!
Georg Kümmel, Cologne, Sozialistische Alternative (CWI in Germany)
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|  26/06/2015, Berlin industrial dispute of national importance
Aron Amm, Sozialistische Alternative (CWI in Germany)
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|  09/06/2015, Strikes in numerous sectors as workers fail to benefit from “recovery”
Sascha Stanicic from Sozialistische Alternative (CWI in Germany)
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|  28/03/2015, Big demo and blockade against the reopening of the Central Bank
by Michael Koschitzki, SAV – Sozialistische Alternative (CWI in Germany)
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|  02/03/2015, Socialist policies needed, not deals with the Troika
Interview with Nikos Kanellis, Volos City Councilor (Xekinima/
CWI Greece) by Sascha Stanicic (SAV’/CWI Germany)
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|  24/02/2015, German racist mobilizations split but danger continues
Michael Koschitzki, SAV (CWI Germany)
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|  13/01/2015, Unions and Left must organise against racism and for jobs and decent
living standards for all
Wolfram Klein, Socialist Alternative (SAV- CWI Germany)
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|  12/11/2014, Last week German train drivers and on-board staff went on strike for
four days, shaking and polarising the country
Sascha Stanicic, Socialist Alternative (CWI in Germany)
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|  09/11/2014, Berlin Wall brought down by mass revolutionary movement
By Robert Bechert, CWI, who was living in Berlin in 1989
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|  16/06/2014, More pictures from solidarity protests around the world
Socialistworld.net
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|  21/02/2014, Need to build Left Party on clear anti-capitalist basis
Sascha Stanicic, national spokesperson SAV
(CWI Germany)
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|  22/12/2013, Defend the refugees! Defend union members!
Corey Snoek & Katharina Doll SAV (CWI in Germany)
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|  26/09/2013, But unstable times lie ahead
Sascha Stanicic, National Spokesperson, Sozialistische Alternative (CWI
in Germany)
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Further articles on 'Germany':2012: 2011: - 21/12/2011: Kazakhstan: Protests in Germany
Campaign Kazakhstan activists, Germany - 17/12/2011: Kazakhstan: More international solidarity protests
Socialistworld.net & CWI Reporters - 16/12/2011: Kazakhstan: Solidarity protests held at Kazakh embassies
Socialistworld.net & CWI Reporters - 16/12/2011: Germany: 89 days on strike
Sascha Stanicic, member of the strike committee and SAV (CWI in Germany) - 27/11/2011: Germany: Far right terrorist group commits murder under nose of domestic
intelligence agencies
Nica Markin, Sozialistische
Alternative (CWI Germany) - 03/10/2011: Germany: Hospital workers’ strike enters fourth week
Sascha Stanicic, SAV (CWI in Germany) - 28/09/2011: Kazakhstan: Venezuelan oil workers’ support striking Kazakh oil workers
and condemn repression
CWI Reporters - 12/09/2011: Germany: Solidarity appeal
Anna Shadrova, SAV, Sozialistische Alternative (CWI in Germany), Berlin - 07/09/2011: Germany: Esso protest in solidarity with striking Kazakh oil workers
René Kiesel, SAV (CWI Germany),
Berlin - 05/05/2011: Germany: Berlin hospital workers on strike
Sascha Stanicic, SAV (CWI Germany)
reports from the picket line - 31/03/2011: Germany: “Green wave“
Sascha Stanicic, SAV (CWI in Germany) - 24/03/2011: Germany: Mass protests against nuclear energy
Sascha Stanicic, SAV (CWI Germany),
Berlin
2010: - 01/11/2010: Germany: Unrest grows
Sascha Stanicic, Sozialistische Alternative (SAV - CWI in Germany) - 05/10/2010: Germany: 100,000 resist police brutality
Sascha Stanicic and Wolfram Klein, reporting from Stuttgart - 24/09/2010: "Stuttgart 21": Joe Higgins speaking on mass demonstration
Video: Joe Higgins, MEP Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) - 07/09/2010: Germany: Mass-Movement against Stuttgart 21 continues
Michael Koschitzki, SAV (CWI in Germany), currently in Stuttgart - 17/08/2010: Germany: Mass protests against “Stuttgart 21”
Wolfram Klein, SAV (CWI in Germany), Stuttgart - 28/07/2010: Germany: Love Parade catastrophe was preventable
From Jan Röder and Sebastian Förster, CWI Germany - 15/06/2010: Germany: 45,000 march against austerity programme
Sascha Stanicic, Sozialistische Alternative (SAV) in Berlin - 12/06/2010: Die LINKE: between coalition and opposition
Sascha Stanicic, Sozialistische Alternative (CWI Germany) - 10/06/2010: Germany: Mass Strikes for Education
Michael Koschitzki, SAV - CWI Germany - 28/05/2010: Solidarity: Support Torsten Sting and other dismissed workers!
René Henze, Rostock (SAV - CWI in Germany) - 11/05/2010: Solidarity needed: Daimler workers in Berlin threatened with expulsion
from IG Metall union
CWI - 11/04/2010: Germany: Successful “Socialism Days 2010” – fight capitalism, discover
Marx!
SAV (CWI in Germany) reporters - 17/02/2010: Germany: Solidarity needed - IG Metall union threatens combative left
activists with explusion
CWI reporters - 15/02/2010: Germany: Blow against neo-nazis in Dresden
Daniel Behruzi, Dresden - 02/02/2010: Germany: Successful SAV national conference
from SAV website, sozialismus.info - 14/01/2010: Germany: Tens of thousands remember Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht
Sascha Stanicic, SAV (CWI in Germany)
2009: - 30/12/2009: Audio: 1989: Consequences and lessons of the fall of the Berlin wall
Speeches by Peter Taaffe and Bob Labi at Socialism 2009 in London - 30/11/2009: Germany: New government’s savage cuts by stealth
Stephan Kimmerle - 05/11/2009: 1989: Germany - Power was lying on the street
Ingmar Meineke, Sozialistische Alternative (SAV – CWI in Germany). From
November 2009 edition of Socialism Today, magazine of the Socialist
Party (CWI in England & Wales - 29/10/2009: Germany: Cleaning workers’ strike ends in success!
By Sascha Stanicic, Berlin - 28/10/2009: Germany: Cleaning workers’ strike
Sascha Stanicic, SAV (CWI in Germany), Berlin - 28/09/2009: Germany: Governing parties’ election losses
By Sascha Stanicic, SAV (CWI in Germany) Berlin - 02/09/2009: Germany: Regional and local elections in Germany
By Sascha Stanicic, SAV (CWI in Germany) Berlin - 18/06/2009: Germany: Mass protests in Germany the high point of a one-week education
strike
Anne Engelhardt, SAV (CWI in Germany) - 13/06/2009: Germany: SAV City Councillor re-elected in Rostock
SAV reporters (CWI in Germany) - 02/06/2009: Germany: “I was, I am, I will be!”
Sascha Stanicic, SAV (CWI Germany) Berlin - 26/05/2009: Germany: Die Linke excludes leading SAV members in Germany
By SAV correspondents - 19/05/2009: Germany: 100,000 on union demonstration
Sascha Stanicic, Sozialistische Alternative (SAV - CWI in Germany) - 02/04/2009: Germany: 55,000 say “We won’t pay for your crisis”
Wolfram Klein – SAV (CWI in Germany) - 13/03/2009: Germany: Stop the deportation of Kurdish refugees from Germany
Sascha Stanicic, SAV (CWI in Germany) - 09/01/2009: Germany: Update - Anti-marxist campaign in German Left Party
from SAV reporters in Berlin
2008: - 14/11/2008: Germany: First ever national school students’ strike – a great success!
David Redelberger (Kassel) and Angelika Teweleit (Berlin), SAV - 30/10/2008: Germany: Attempted exclusions from Left Party - update
SAV, Berlin (Sozialistische Alternative, CWI in Germany) - 24/10/2008: German: Marxists under attack from Left Party leader
Sascha Stanicic, SAV, Berlin - 06/10/2008: Germany: Year-old Left Party third in polls
Holger Dröge, Sozialistische Alternative (SAV – CWI Germany) - 05/07/2008: Germany: Red flags raised on school roof
Anne Engelhardt, CWI - 13/06/2008: Germany: The tuition fees disaster
Interview with Sebastian Förster, student activist - 30/05/2008: Germany: The Left party holds its first national congress
Lucy Redler, Sozialistische Alternative (CWI Germany) - 25/05/2008: Germany: Break down the blockades to education!
Anne Engelhardt, CWI - 30/04/2008: Germany: No space for Nazis in Stolberg: successful counter demo
SAV, CWI Germany - 12/03/2008: Germany : Revolt against an ‘unjust’ society
Sascha Stanicic, SAV, CWI Germany - 22/01/2008: Germany: Train drivers’ strike sparks wider working class demands
Anne Engelhardt, CWI - 03/01/2008: Germany: Germany at the crossroads
Peter Taaffe, General Secretary, Socialist Party, England and Wales
2007: - 27/11/2007: Germany: Train drivers dispute continues
Sascha Stanicic, SAV, CWI Germany, Berlin - 16/11/2007: Germany: Longest train drivers’ strike in German history
Anne Engelhardt, Sozialistische Alternative (SAV), CWI Germany - 08/11/2007: Germany: Germany moves to the left
Sascha Stanicic, Sozialistische Alternative (SAV), CWI Germany - 04/10/2007: Germany: ’Capitalism? Resistance! Marxism for the 21st Century’
Sascha Stanicic, Sozialistische Alternative (SAV), Berlin - 19/07/2007: Germany: The Left in Germany - new party, old mistakes
Sascha Stanicic, SAV general secretary and former member of WASG
national council - 25/06/2007: Germany: Telekom struggle, victory for big business locusts
Ursel Beck, SAV (CWI in Germany) trade union spokesperson - 31/03/2007: Germany: “Left Unity” no step forward
Sascha Stanicic, Sozialistische Alternative (SAV, CWI Germany) and WASG
National Council member
2006: - 02/12/2006: Germany: Balance sheet of WASG national conference
Sascha Stanicic, SAV (Sozialistische Alternative, German CWI), Berlin - 01/11/2006: Germany: Skirmishes at Sri Lankan Embassy in Berlin
SAV, cwi Germany - 26/09/2006: Germany: WASG Berlin election in Marzahn-Hellersdorf, Berlin
Christian Bunke - 22/09/2006: Germany: 52,000 votes against social cuts
Aron Amm, SAV (CWI) - 17/09/2006: Germany: 40,000 WASG votes against social cuts in Berlin regional
elections
Robert Bechert, cwi, London - 11/09/2006: Germany: SAV comrade elected as councillor in Celle
socialistworld.net. Monday 11 September 2006 - 31/08/2006: Germany: Berlin election campaign enters "hot phase"
Tanja Niemeier, CWI, Berlin, Thursday 31 August 2006 - 28/06/2006: Germany: cwi comment and analysis - A decisive moment for the left
Robert Bechert, cwi - 06/06/2006: Germany: Poll gives Berlin WASG 5%
Robert Bechert, cwi, Berlin - 01/06/2006: Germany: Berlin WASG overcomes obstacles and fights in election
Robert Bechert, cwi, Berlin - 30/05/2006: Germany: “Marx is Muss”
Socialist Alternative (SAV) - 30/05/2006: Germany: Five million watch German Trotskyist
Robert Bechert, cwi - 27/05/2006: Germany: WASG Left opposition meeting condemns national leadership
attacks
Angelika Teweleit, Berlin (translated by Tanja Niemeier) - 24/05/2006: Germany: "Between Trotsky and Lafontaine"
socialistworld.net - 17/05/2006: Germany: WASG leadership suspends party’s Berlin Regional Committee
Sascha Stanicic, SAV (CWI), Berlin, Wednesday 17 May 2006 - 16/05/2006: Germany: Ailing capitalism slashes workers’ wages and conditions
Peter Taaffe, cwi, London - 06/05/2006: Germany: “Unity” at the expense of the working class
Robert Bechert, cwi, Berlin, Germany - 02/05/2006: Germany: WASG National Congress
Robert Bechert, CWI, Berlin - 26/04/2006: germany: "socialism days" in Berlin
SAV, cwi Germany, Berlin, Wednesday 26 of April 2006 - 24/04/2006: Germany: Berlin city elections
Robert Bechert, CWI - 01/04/2006: Germany: Record low turn-out in regional elections
Tanja Niemeier, Berlin - 28/03/2006: Germany: Election victory for Kassel ‘Left for work and social justice’
and SAV.
SAV, cwi Germany - 16/03/2006: Germany: Lafontaine speaks “left” while attacking Socialists
Tanja Niemeier, Berlin; Translation by Seán McGinley - 09/03/2006: Germany: WASG Berlin will stand independently
Tanja Niemeier, Berlin, cwi - 27/02/2006: Germany: Berlin WASG rejects joint election list with party carrying out
cuts
Tanja Niemeier, Berlin - 27/02/2006: Germany: Hot spring is looming!
Tanja Niemeier, cwi Berlin - 23/02/2006: Germany: 35,000 public sector workers on strike
Ursel Beck, Stuttgart, Sozialistiche Alternative, Germany. Translation
by Sean McGinley - 14/02/2006: Germany: Angry protest against cuts and job losses
Torsten Sting, Socialist Alternative (SAV), Rostock - 13/02/2006: Germany: Angry protest against cuts and job losses
Torsten Sting, Socialist Alternative (SAV), Rostock - 01/02/2006: Germany: Facing the challenges of building a genuine new left party
Tanja Niemeier, cwi, Berlin - 26/01/2006: Germany: Which way forward for the left?
Sascha Stanicic, General Secretary, Sozialistische Alternative, Berlin
2005: - 01/12/2005: Germany: Success for Left at regional WASG Berlin party conference
David Matrai, WASG and Socialist Alternative (CWI Germany), Berlin - 07/11/2005: Germany: Electoral success for German left - now organise resistance!
Sascha Stanicic, Sozialistische Alternative , Germany - 07/11/2005: Germany: What the Greens did in power
Kim Opgenoorth, Sozialistische Alternative (CWI Germany) - 12/10/2005: Germany: New government will be a ‘Grand Coalition’ against workers
Sascha Stanicic, Berlin - 23/09/2005: Germany: Electoral success for left
Sascha Stanicic, Sozialistiche Alternative, Germany, Friday 23 september
2005 - 20/09/2005: Germany: Elections see big victory for Left Party
Rober Bechert, CWI, Berlin, Tuesday 20 September 2005 - 08/09/2005: Germany: Political establishment fears rise of Left Party during
elections
Holger Dröge, member of WASG and Socialist Alternative (CWI), Berlin,
and Tanja Niemeier, CWI - 06/07/2005: Germany: A new challenge from the left
Sascha Stanicic, Socialist Alternative, Berlin, Germany - 01/06/2005: Germany: Political turmoil follows regional elections
Tanja Niemeier, cwi - 25/05/2005: Germany: WASG campaign in Aachen
Marc Treude - 24/05/2005: Germany: SPD receives severe punishment for demolition of the welfare
state
Tanja Niemeier, cwi - 04/04/2005: Germany: Socialism Days 2005
Nico Weinmann, Sozialistische Alternative, Germany - 24/03/2005: Germany: Political and social crisis deepens
Tanja Niemeier, Berlin - 23/01/2005: Germany: Socialist Alternative in Rostock wins important improvements
for unemployed
Tanja Niemeier, cwi
2004: - 13/12/2004: Germany: Concrete steps towards formation of new party
Tanja Niemeier - 21/11/2004: Germany: A social and economic earthquake
Chris Loughlin, Socialist Party Ireland - 28/10/2004: Germany: Lessons of the Opel strike
Tanja Niemeier, CWI - 20/10/2004: Germany: 20,000 people march in solidarity with striking Opel workers
Socialist Alternative, cwi Germany - 19/10/2004: Germany: Fighting GM Redundancies
Robert Bechert, cwi - 18/10/2004: Germany: Stop the GM bosses
Sascha Stanicic, SAV (cwi) Germany - 10/10/2004: Germany: Socialist councillor sacked in Germany
Socialist Alternative (SAV, cwi in Germany) - 28/09/2004: Germany: Victory for Socialist Alternative!
Tanja Niemeier, cwi - 15/09/2004: Germany: Anger mounts against cuts
Robert Bechert, CWI - 03/09/2004: Germany: Majority support for socialism
Robert Bechert, cwi London - 19/08/2004: Germany: More than 100,000 people take part in Monday demonstrations
socialistworld.net - 18/08/2004: Germany: Hot autumn starts early
Tanja Niemeier, cwi - 09/07/2004: Germany: Kassel protest against social cuts
Sönke Jan Schröder, Kassel - 05/07/2004: Germany: “Which side are you on?â€
Tanja Niemeier, cwi - 25/06/2004: Germany: Electoral disaster for Schroder
Wolfram Klein, Sozialistische Alternative (SAV) - 05/06/2004: Germany: "People not profit"
Tanja Niemeier, cwi - 05/04/2004: Germany: Half a million march against government’s social cuts
Sascha Stanicic, SAV (Sozialistische Alternative), Berlin - 01/04/2004: Germany: Moves towards a new “left party�
Tanja Niemeier, cwi - 25/01/2004: Germany: Struggles develop as crisis deepens
Tanja Niemeier, cwi
2003: - 17/12/2003: Germany: Thousands of students protest to defend education
Tanja Niemeier, CWI - 11/12/2003: Germany: Kassel strikes against neo-liberal policies
Holger Droge, SAV, Berlin - 04/12/2003: Germany: Cross sector strike action planned in Kassel (Hessen)
Holger Dröge, Berlin - 03/12/2003: Germany: Work stoppages and protests planned against government attacks
Tanja Niemeier, cwi - 02/11/2003: Germany: 100,000 demonstrate against Schrâ€der’s Social Cuts
Holger Dröge - 25/10/2003: Germany: Biggest union backs anti-cuts demo
cwi online. - 18/10/2003: Germany in crisis: "This policy deserves no applause!" - but resistance!
Sascha Stanicic, Berlin - 02/04/2003: Germany: Schröder’s all-out assault on workers and the unemployed
SAV National Executive Committee, 18 March 2003 - 26/02/2003: Germany: Youth Against the war organises national day of action
Sascha Stanicic, Sozialistische Alternative, Berlin - 25/02/2003: Germany: 10,000 school students on strike in Stuttgart
Sozialistische Alternative, Stuttgart - 14/02/2003: Germany: Bremen school students strike!
Vivien, Bremen, Sozialistische Alternative (SAV) - 05/02/2003: Germany: Governing SPD routed in federal elections
SAV, CWI, Germany - 03/01/2003: Germany: Crisis and workers struggle
By Aron Amm, Sozialistische Alternative (SAV), Berlin. Translated by
Sean McGinley
2002:
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