80 years on: could the Nazis have been stopped?
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Recording of Clive Bradley's introduction to the Workers' Liberty Forum on '80 years on: could the Nazis have been stopped?' in London on 27 March.
Germany
80 years on: could the Nazis have been stopped? (Workers' Liberty London Forum)
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Date:
27 March, 2013 - 19:00 - 21:30
Location:
University of London Union, Malet St, London WC1
Description:
In 1933 the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nazis) came to power, destroying the most powerful workers’ movement in Europe and setting Germany and the world on the road to fifteen years of dictatorship, genocide and war.
Could the Nazis have been stopped? Why did the German working class not resist?
What can we learn from Leon Trotsky’s analysis of the German labour movement’s failure to beat the Nazis?
In the face of rising fascist movements like the Front Nationale in France and Golden Dawn in Greece, and the right-wing nationalist UKIP in Britain, what are the lessons of Germany for fighting the far right today?
Everyone welcome to join us for discussion.
More info: awl@workersliberty.org • 07796 690 874 • Facebook event
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Merkel drafts her "growth plan": the smallest possible shift from neoliberalism
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The German business magazine Handelsblatt has published (4 June) the European "growth plan" with which Chancellor Merkel plans to win the Social Democrat and Green votes to get the two-thirds majority she needs to ratify the EU fiscal pact.
Greece: will Merkel budge?
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John Palmer, former European editor of the Guardian, spoke to Solidarity about what the current talk among EU leaders about “growth initiatives” is likely to yield.
All at sea with the Pirate Party of Germany
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A new-ish political party is changing German politics. Apparently.
European news in brief
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Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union had its vote drop by 8% in provincial elections on 13 May in Germany’s most populous state, Nordrhein-Westfalen.
Discussions on a "New Anticapitalist Party" in Germany
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A year ago, a small Berlin-based left group, dominated by ex-members of the German "Mandelite" (orthodox Trotskyist - like the ex-IMG/Socialist Resistance in the UK) organisation took the initiative i
Unemployed woman shot in Frankfurt jobcentre
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By a German socialist
On 19 May a woman - poor, homeless, African and drug-addicted - was shot and killed by police in a Frankfurt jobcentre.
Germany to go non-nuclear
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250,000 people joined demonstrations across Germany following the Fukushima disaster, calling on the government to phase out nuclear power completely.
Alone in Berlin
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By Matthew Thompson
The 1947 novel Alone in Berlin (Jeder stirbt für sich allein) by Hans Fallada is remarkable in several ways.