Introduction Picasso poses a problem for the supporters of Marxist-Leninist view of socialist art. What ideology – both subjectively and objectively – did he represent? What are the advocates of realism in the arts to make of Picasso’s love of gross anatomical distortions? How do most people react to his, perhaps most famous work […]
News & Comment
Please stop telling me that everything‘s fine in Germany
Reports that Angela Merkel’s government is dealing well with the Covid pandemic are not based in reality
How Berlin nursery workers are affected by Coronavirus
Some thoughts of a nursery worker after a stressful week
Macron and France in the Deluge
The epidemic in France has already claimed 2 000 lives, and it is early days yet. Two presidential speeches, Thursday 12th March and Monday 16th March, have transformed life in France, closing school, universities, non-essential shops, parks, cinemas, restaurants and so on. The speeches also transformed French politics, I think, for the next decade, and they […]
Germany is protecting the economy, not the people
Angela Merkel’s speech to the nation called for “social distance”, but health protection in the workplace is neglected
Photo Gallery: International Women’s Day, 8 March 2020
Photos by Antony Hamilton and Karsten Schmitz
Photos from our meeting: Fighting Fascism from Greece to Germany
7 March 2020, Karl Liebknecht Haus
A Perspective of the current USA electoral process
At the best of times, leftists are divided about what to make of electoral politics. Opinions range from those who argue they will never result in meaningful change for the unprivileged members of society. Other argue that Leftists must engage in the democratic process. As the USA elections are a brazen frenzy of money, […]
Health care crisis and short term demands
The aftermath of the Coronavirus (COVID-19). How will we know the pandemic is scientifically ‘over’? What if authoritarian governments extend it?