Germany Articles

The left in Germany is still haunted by the fall of the Berlin Wall. The latest angst has been over a regional election in Thuringia. It looks like the Left party – which won – will go into coalition with the Social Democrats and the Greens. That would make the...

In the summer of 1951 an 11-year-old East German boy returned home to find that his father had disappeared without a trace. Two years later it transpired that he had been taken to a Siberian Gulag, and it was only in 1955 after four years of torture and...

Like many others we were particularly concerned about the rise in antisemitism this summer both in the United Kingdom and across Europe as a result of the most recent escalation of violence in the Middle East conflict. Party members will have their differing views on...

Both the United Kingdom and Scottish Labour parties, with just seven months until the 2015 general election, have been thrown into disarray since Johann Lamont brought her short three years tenure as leader of the Scottish Labour party to an abrupt end. And she has by...