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Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO reports from the annual Rosa Luxemburg Conference held last weekend in Berlin
POLICE snatching Palestine solidarity demonstrators from the annual march to the tombs of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht showcased an authoritarian new Germany.
Junge Welt, the Morning Star’s German sister paper which organises the annual Rosa Luxemburg Conference which took place last weekend, has been on the sharp end of this repression.
It has fought in the courts against its designation as “extremist” by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution: this does not ban the daily paper, but restricts its ability to advertise and sees access to it denied online at many universities and libraries.
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