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Victor Grossman
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Features / 21 March 2025
21 March 2025
VICTOR GROSSMAN believes peace in Ukraine needs to come before anything else and abhors the EU's insane drive to keep the war going on
march
Features / 21 February 2025
21 February 2025
VICTOR GROSSMAN reports, with a little chuckle, on how US readiness to work with Russia, not just on peace for Ukraine, has thrown a spanner into the German electoral machine
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Features / 26 March 2024
26 March 2024
Although Chancellor Scholz has ruled out sending Taurus missiles to Ukraine, the atmosphere in Germany is one of mounting ‘war readiness,’ while the left remains worryingly divided, warns VICTOR GROSSMAN
A man holds a sign reading
Features / 25 January 2024
25 January 2024
We can only hope the charismatic leftist Sahra Wagenknecht’s new party can beat the AfD, as the increasingly out-of-touch ruling caste in government prepares Germany for huge, belligerent ‘war games,’ writes VICTOR GROSSMAN
A pro-Palestinian rally in Duesseldorf, November 4
Features / 16 November 2023
16 November 2023
The same vested interests have survived from over a century ago, now allied to the US but still hellbent on war with Russia, writes VICTOR GROSSMAN
Parliamentary party leader of Die Linke, Dietmar Bartsch, ma
Features / 25 August 2023
25 August 2023
VICTOR GROSSMAN assesses the impact of the Ukraine war on the German economy, the far-right and the Left party — and what may happen next
DIFFERENT PATHS: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz arrives with
Features / 8 February 2023
8 February 2023
VICTOR GROSSMAN reflects on the dangerous groupthink pushing ever more arms to Ukraine
MILITARISTS UNITED: Nancy Pelosi (left) meets the German Gre
Features / 21 September 2022
21 September 2022
Across the political spectrum in Europe's most powerful nation there is a growing desire for confrontation with Russia and a new era of military intervention globally — and now even the radical left is folding on this crucial issue, reports VICTOR GROSSMAN
German/EU army
Features / 3 February 2022
3 February 2022
As so many around in the West ramp up the tensions over Ukraine, it seems the seat of European power is cooling in its desire for conflict — but will calmer minds prevail, asks VICTOR GROSSMAN
Die Linke supporters
Features / 6 October 2021
6 October 2021
The Left party’s policy of going easy on the SPD, the Greens and its own principles backfired disastrously, writes VICTOR GROSSMAN
Palast der Republik
Features / 13 August 2021
13 August 2021
On the 60th anniversary of the raising of the Berlin Wall, VICTOR GROSSMAN writes that the restoration of the once-socialist Palast of the Republik to a grim approximation of its pre-war Prussian style, complete with a museum full of stolen colonial loot, matches the the nation’s rapid return to imperialism
Die Linke
Features / 17 June 2021
17 June 2021
In his Berlin bulletin VICTOR GROSSMAN reports that although the far right have failed to break through in recent elections, the left are breaking down