In his May Day message for the Morning Star, RICHARD BURGON says the call for peace, equality and socialism has never been more relevant
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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’
This May Day we reaffirm our commitment to working people and our class and to get trade unionism back on the front foot, says EDDIE DEMPSEY
DIANE ABBOTT looks at the whys and hows of Labour’s spectacular own goal
When it comes to extreme weather events, from wildfires to flash floods, it’s firefighters who are on the front line of defence, but services have been cut to the bone, and government is not taking seriously its responsibility for the environment, says STEVE WRIGHT
LUKE FLETCHER pours scorn on Labour’s betrayal of the Welsh steel industry, where the option of nationalisation was sneered at and dismissed – unlike at Scunthorpe where the government stepped in
Washington’s tariff policies become explicable in light of the US economy’s relative decline and the astonishing rise of China, argues MICHAEL BURKE
SOLOMON HUGHES highlights a 1995 Sunday Times story about the disappearance of ‘defecting Iraqi nuclear scientist.’ Even though the story was debunked, it was widely repeated across the mainstream press, creating the false – and deadly – narrative of Iraqi WMD that eventually led to war
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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