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Socialism Ran In Angela Lansbury’s Blood

by Judy Cox on 13/10/2022
The late actor's grandparents and father were socialists who went to prison for opposing rent rises. Her aunts were Communists and campaigners for abortion rights
News and Analysis

Can we have class struggle without identity politics?

by Andrei Belibou on 05/10/2022
Review - Fractured: Race, Class, Gender and the Hatred of Identity Politics by Michael Richmond and Alex Charnley
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Grab your pen, buddy, German socialist culture needs you!

by Rosemary Grennan on 19/09/2022
A visit to the Beeskow Art Archive
News and Analysis

The Queen is Dead. Republic Now!

by Phil Butland on 11/09/2022
A symbol of privilege and colonialism has just died. The Royals are no friends of ours
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Tips for Leftist Tourists in Berlin – 2. West Berlin

by Phil Butland on 07/09/2022
A beginner’s guide to some of the more obscure monuments in West Berlin
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My seventy years and an ode to the departed GDR

by Victor Grossman on 01/09/2022
Victor Grossman on 70 years since his defection to the DDR
Campaign of the week

RevolutionaryBerlin Tours

by The Left Berlin on 11/08/2022
Anticapitalist walking tours since 2009.
News and Analysis

Berthold Brecht and the 1953 East Berlin Workers’ Uprising

by Phil Butland on 03/08/2022
The socialist playwright’s ambiguous attitude to the mass action shows his contradictory attitude to so-called “State Socialism”
News and Analysis

Marx, Wagner, and Anti-Semitism: A Review of the Exhibition ‘Karl Marx und der Kapitalismus’

by Hari Kumar on 27/07/2022
A new exhibition of the life and work of Marx raises many interesting questions, not least his attitude to anti-semitism
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A new book views Berlin from Below

by Phil Butland on 25/07/2022
Review: Revolutionary Berlin: A Walking Guide (Nathaniel Flakin)
News and Analysis

Using €9 train tickets to discover unseen Germany

by Emily Baumgartner on 09/07/2022
The Berlin LINKE Internationals used the €9 train ticket to organize a group visit to the DDR's first planned town. Further trips are planned.
News and Analysis

Reductionism and Epigenetics: The Lysenko Debate

by Hari Kumar on 18/06/2022
Both Morgan and classical genetic theory, as well as Lysenko’s theories on genetics were one-sided and reductionist. Dialectics more aptly describes current thoughts on evolution
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