Weekly news roundup from Berlin and Germany
News & Comment
The muffling of Steve Bell
The British Guardian newspaper has sacked their long-standing cartoonist. Is this because of antisemitism or part of the paper’s general move to the right? And what does this mean for satire in the UK?
How can we get the Covid vaccine and rollout plan we require?
The urgent need for national organising and international solidarity in the fight against vaccine patent laws. A view from South Africa.
Time to condemn the men
Jacinta Nandi and Nadia Shehadeh in conversation about mums, marriage and men. About how housework would be ok if it weren’t for the lazy man in the background. And why cleaning the house is a bit like sex work
News from Germany and Berlin: 2 January, 2021
Weekly news roundup from Berlin and Germany
Old People in Sweden during the pandemic were treated as dispensable
For a while, some people hailed Sweden’s treatment of the Covid crisis as exemplary. Hari Kumar argues, that the Swedish model of minimal lockdown and herd immunity was anti-science and led to the deaths of many old people
2020 on theleftberlin.com
When we launched this website towards the end of 2019, we had little idea what was ahead. 2020 was a year of disease and of right-wing gains, but it was also a year of resistance. Phil Butland looks at what happened, how we reacted, and looks forward to a relaunch of the website next year
theleftberlin.com in 2020, Part Two – most viewed articles, #1-#10
Yesterday, we published the 11th to 30th most viewed articles on theleftberlin.com in 2020. Here are the 10 most viewed articles of the year.
theleftberlin.com in 2020, Part One – most viewed articles, #11-#30
In the year 2020 we published a lot of articles on theleftberlin.com. This is the first of a three-part series summarizing our year. Today its the 11th to 30th most viewed articles. Tomorrow we’ll list the top 10 and the day after we’ll review our year