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50 years of impunity

by Roser Gari Perez on 26/11/2025

What has changed since the death of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco?

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30 November 1999: The Battle of Seattle

by Phil Butland on 25/11/2025

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20 November 1975: the death of Franco

by Roser Gari Perez on 18/11/2025

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15 November 1884 – start of Berlin conference

by Phil Butland on 12/11/2025

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9 November 1918: Karl Liebknecht announces a “free German socialist republic”

by Phil Butland on 04/11/2025

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Germany’s dangerous political calculation

by Sascha Cornejo P on 03/11/2025

An essay on new German victimhood, Holocaust remembrance, and genocide deniers

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30 October 1947 – Bertolt Brecht appears before the House Un-American Committee

by Phil Butland on 28/10/2025

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23 October 1956 – Start of Hungarian revolution

by Phil Butland on 21/10/2025

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16 October 1968: Tommie Smith and John Carlos celebrate Olympic victory with a Black Power salute

by Phil Butland on 15/10/2025

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4 October 1936 – The Battle of Cable Street

by Phil Butland on 30/09/2025

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Yes, the German Democratic Republic was socialist—and we have much to learn from it

by Internationale Forschungsstelle DDR on 27/09/2025

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

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1 October 1965 – Attempted coup in Indonesia leads to Suharto dictatorship

by Phil Butland on 23/09/2025

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