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Nathaniel Flakin

Nathaniel Flakin

Nathaniel Flakin is a historian and journalist from Berlin. He published the anticapitalist guide book Revolutionary Berlin as well as a biography of the Jewish resistance fighter Martin Monath. He is a parent and on the autism spectrum.

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Gießen Demo
Demonstrations & Direct Action

Red Flag: Generation Antifa blocks the Far Right

by Nathaniel Flakin on 03/12/2025
In his weekly column, Nathaniel Flakin looks at the protests against the AfD in Gießen.
Nation states belong to the bourgeoisie
Germany

Red Flag: Nation states belong to the bourgeoisie

by Nathaniel Flakin on 26/11/2025
In his weekly column, Nathaniel Flakin looks at a socialist answer to national oppression.
AFD Universities - Faschismus ist keine alternative
Berlin

Red Flag: Berlin universities bend the knee for the AfD

by Nathaniel Flakin on 19/11/2025
In his weekly column, Nathaniel Flakin looks at unprecedented campus repression on the orders of the Far Right.
Zohran Mamdani
Elections

Red Flag: first Manhattan, then Berlin?

by Nathaniel Flakin on 12/11/2025
In his weekly column, Nathaniel Flakin looks at why Germany's Die Linke is not like Mamdani.
Elkana Federman
Berlin

Red Flag: Is Berlin’s government violating EU sanctions?

by Nathaniel Flakin on 05/11/2025
In his weekly column, Nathaniel Flakin looks at how the publicly-funded Nova exhibition praises far-right terrorists.
Photo: Wikimedia Commons, CC licensing, Oleg Yunakov, Nova Festival Exhibit in New York City
Berlin

Red Flag: A haunted house in support of genocide

by Nathaniel Flakin on 15/10/2025
In his weekly column, Nathaniel Flakin reports from the Nova festival exhibition at the former Tempelhof Airport.
Bundeswehr Training
Current affairs

Red Flag: Germany reintroducing conscription (really!)

by Nathaniel Flakin on 01/10/2025
In his weekly column, Nathaniel Flakin wonders: what could go wrong?
Berlin

Red Flag: Your tax money for Israeli war propaganda

by Nathaniel Flakin on 24/09/2025
In his weekly column, Nathaniel Flakin looks at an exhibition coming to Tempelhof Airport in less than two weeks
Techno club About Blank in Berlin, Germany
Berlin

Red Flag: Fake news about fake Jews from a German minister

by Nathaniel Flakin on 19/09/2025
In his weekly column, Nathaniel Flakin looks at supposed anti-Jewish boycotts—and actual boycotts
A mural depicting a socialist utopia: two smiling people with symbols of science and advancement swirling around them.
Germany

Red Flag:  No, East Germany wasn’t socialist—and neither is “democratic socialism”

by Nathaniel Flakin on 10/09/2025
In his weekly column, Nathaniel Flakin critiques controversial statement by Die Linke's Heidi Reichinnek
Kitty O'Brien with a bloody nose, being led away by two police officers.
Berlin

Red Flag: Anti-Irish repression shows growing authoritarianism

by Nathaniel Flakin on 03/09/2025
In his weekly column, Nathaniel Flakin covers Kneecap ban and Irish Berliner getting punched
Berlin

Red Flag: The New A100 Autobahn — A Monument to Car Supremacy

by Nathaniel Flakin on 26/08/2025
In his weekly column, Nathaniel Flakin looks at Berlin's antediluvian transport policy.
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