Attack on artistic freedom and freedom of expression: The Berlin District Office of Mitte bows to pressure from the Japanese government and revokes authorisation for the Statue of Peace in Moabit
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Cleaning lady: a job like any other?
On Women’s Day this year, which seems a million years ago now, a time when we were all suddenly realizing that just because hysterical hypochondriacs thought they probably had COVID-19 didn’t automatically mean it wasn’t actually really fucking terrible (God, what a horrible realization that was!), the UK Guardian published a feminist article by Sally […]
Anticolonial Berlin
Providing a voice for the marginalized
John Lennon – Protest from the car boot
On the 80th anniversary of John Lennon’s birth, we republish this article, originally written for the 75th anniversary
From IWS to Liebig34: Solidarity!
This is a letter from International Women* Space (IWS). IWS was formed in December 2012 during the Refugee Movement’s occupation of the former Gerhart-Hauptmann School in Berlin-Kreuzberg. The letter concerns the planned eviction of the Liebig34 squat, which is planned for later this week. The eviction has been initiated by the “owner” of Liebig34, Gijora […]
60 Years Spartacus
On 6 October 1960, the film Spartacus opened in New York City’s DeMille Theatre. TIME magazine celebrated “a new kind of Hollywood movie: a super-spectacle with spiritual vitality and moral force”. The New York Times‘ long-time film critic Bosley Crowther was less excited, dismissing the film as “heroic humbug”, adding that “the middle phase is […]
The School for Unlearning Zionism
Rethinking the Zionist narrative
Berlin gegen Nazis
Uniting the anti-fascist fight in Berlin