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Willy Brandt Articles

Fall of the Berlin Wall: would Poland suffer, again?

On 9 November 1989 as senior international officer of the Labour party I was in Warsaw as a member of a delegation of about 10 members of the Socialist International Disarmament Advisory Committee led by Kalevi Sorsa, the former foreign minister and later prime...
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The German left: still lost in the post-Wall wilderness

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...
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The cry of ‘betrayal’

Open Democracy is one of our best political forums. It provides important analysis on developments in different countries that does not appear in a press that carries only superficial coverage of Europe, and further afield. OD also runs some political comments on UK affairs. There is a powerful one on the latest OD site by David Marquand, long a hero. But as he talks of the ‘Blair-Brown regime’ Marquand, while making many points I agree with, relapses into too easily into the DOM syndrome – the Disillusioned Old Man.

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