AQEL TAQAZ looks warily at the implications of Western states’ proposed recognition of the Palestinian state
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The Krelle case – how former Nazis helped dismantle socialism in the GDR
Post-unification, an entire generation of GDR citizens had their qualifications devalued or disregarded in a sinister anti-left purge that was termed the ‘changing of the elite.’ JOHN GREEN reports
January 1991: Students and lecturers at Berlin’s Humboldt University protest over the job assessment procedures and liquidation of former GDR educational institutes. The banner reads, with reference to Marx’s famous quote: ‘Those in the East and the West have only interpreted the Federal Republic differently, the point however is to change it’
PCS members face dangerous working conditions in crumbling buildings while the Common Platform IT system obstructs rather than streamlines operations — and Labour’s promised wave of insourcing has not materialised, writes SHARON McLEAN
LAURA PIDCOCK and PAUL O’CONNELL introduces Rise, a political platform for working-class activism
From anonymous surveys claiming Chinese students are spying on each other to a meltdown about the size of China’s London embassy, the evidence is everywhere that Britain is embracing full spectrum Sinophobia as the war clouds gather, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ
Morning Star editor Ben Chacko speaks to JON FARLEY – the retired headteacher whose arrest in Leeds exposes the grim absurdity of the Palestine Action ban
As apple trees blossom to excess it remains to be seen if an abundance of fruit will follow. MAT COWARD has a few tips to see you through a nervy time
IN THE wake of Holocaust Memorial Day, it is perhaps useful to be reminded that Germany’s Nazi past is far from overcome.
Since German unification, over 30 years ago, there has been a deliberate and ongoing attempt to rewrite history, with the GDR portrayed as the twin evil of Nazism.
There has been a largely successful attempt to prettify the reputation of the Federal Republic as the country that came to terms with its Nazi past, confronting and dealing with the evil of that period.
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