Racism and Fascism – The Left Berlin

13 January 1898: Emile Zola publishes J’Accuse

by Phil Butland

This week in working class history

Leonardo DiCaprio in one of his scenes in One Battle After Another.

2025 in Film

by Phil Butland

The best (and some of the less good) films of last year

Watercolor titled "Gargantua: Apologies to Honor Daumier." A large trump sits in the middle, mouth open as a golden stream of coins enters/exits his mouth. Elon Musk does a Nazi salute on his right. Investors smilingly accept the coins in the bottom left, a puppet holds the fate of various government programs at the bottom right. Armored police terrorize a lone protestor at the upper right. A ghostly figure next to a No Kings protestor says "Take this 2026".

A year of militarism, rising right wing authoritarianism, and resistance

by Phil Butland

Most read articles on theleftberlin.com in 2025

Oury Jalloh Family Campaign

by The Left Berlin

That was murder

Antifa graffiti on a brick wall

“161” or how we should think of anti-fascism

by Ivan Uzunski

Approaches to anti-fascism