• Split on the Left: Berlin Bulletin No. 218 – November 21 2023
    Split on the Left: Berlin Bulletin No. 218 – November 21 2023

    Is it a tragedy or a new hope? After months, in fact years of inner-party squabbling in Germany’s LINKE party (The Left), the die has been cast, the Rubicon crossed, and Sahra Wagenknecht, with nine other Bundestag deputies, has quit the party and announced their decision to found a new party in January.

    A rose for Gramsci
    A rose for Gramsci

    Ninety-seven years back, via Giovanni Battista Morgagni, number 25, was a more modest lodging house, home of a quietly discreet pensionante called Antonio Gramsci.

    The Pogrom, Indians, and Genealogies of the Israeli Settler-Vigilante
    The Pogrom, Indians, and Genealogies of the Israeli Settler-Vigilante

    In most major media accounts of settler terror against Palestinians, Israeli settler-vigilantes invariably escape critical categorization beyond the moniker of “extremist.”  Portrayals of these perpetrators of violence invariably focus on the theme of fanaticism while presenting these figures as unsavory if misguided fringe elements in Israeli society.  Such characterizations are naïve and incomplete. 

    CFA Franc System in Francophone Africa: A tool of French financial imperialism
    CFA Franc System in Francophone Africa: A tool of French financial imperialism

    The independence of French Indochina after the Second World War triggered a wave of independence in the French-speaking African countries, and it appeared that French colonial foundations had suffered a huge blow in the early 1960s.

    Historic events past and present: Berlin Bulletin no. 217
    Historic events past and present: Berlin Bulletin no. 217

    Again the USA marked Veterans' Day. Now all leading German parties also want such a "Veteranentag"—to honor all those past patriots who wore uniforms, voluntarily or not, and certainly to inspire many more reluctant young men or women to put on army boots and shoulder arms.… Not so many may recall that the earlier "Armistice Day" marked the end of World War One.

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