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Nathaniel Flakin

Nathaniel Flakin

Nathaniel Flakin is a historian and journalist from Berlin. He published the anticapitalist guide book Revolutionary Berlin as well as a biography of the Jewish resistance fighter Martin Monath. He is a parent and on the autism spectrum.

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Germany

A Nazi War Criminal Honored in Olaf Scholz’s Office

by Nathaniel Flakin on 24/01/2025
Hans Globke authored the Nazis' Nuremberg Race Laws. His portrait still hangs in the Federal Chancellery. Is this what Olaf Scholz means when he says antisemitism has no place in Germany?
Current affairs

Red Flag: Why Do You Never See German Politicians on the Bus?

by Nathaniel Flakin on 15/01/2025
White-collar corruption in the Bundestag makes a mockery of representative democracy that rewards Germany's most venal individuals.
Elections

A Social Worker Running for the Bundestag

by Nathaniel Flakin on 10/01/2025
With the German elections coming up on February 23, the parties are trying to outdo each other with ever more extreme racism and militarism. Inés Heider is running in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg on a platform of fundamental opposition to capitalism
Elections

Germany’s Left Party Expels Palestinian Activist

by Nathaniel Flakin on 17/12/2024
Ahead of national elections, the Left Party is demonstrating its loyalty to German imperialism
Berlin

Interview with a Jewish Staff Member at the Berlin University of the Arts

by Nathaniel Flakin on 03/12/2024
While reports of “antisemitism” and “threats against Jewish students” at the Berlin University of the Arts circulate, actual Jewish students are ignored
Berlin

Austerity in Berlin: Fighter Jets Instead of Electric Busses

by Nathaniel Flakin on 27/11/2024
Austerity is going to hit us all like an SUV plowing into a pedestrian. The cuts serve to finance militarism.
Berlin

Daycare strikes are hell for parents – and we must support them

by Nathaniel Flakin on 30/09/2024
Berlin's Kita workers were set to begin an unlimited strike. But it was banned by a judge
Berlin

Can Berlin get over its addiction to cars?

by Nathaniel Flakin on 19/09/2024
A Neukölln Kiez has reduced traffic. A right-wing tabloid declares this to be a "risk of death". Will Berlin ever be for people, instead of for cars?
Berlin

Berlin’s mayor loves antisemites, chapter 713

by Nathaniel Flakin on 01/09/2024
Kai Wegner, Berlin's conservative mayor, recently embraced the antisemitic conspiracy theorist Elon Musk. But Wegner's relationship to Berlin's former interior senator Heinrich Lummer raises even more questions.
Germany

How Germany tries to ban the slogan “From the river to the Sea”

by Nathaniel Flakin on 29/08/2024
German police have carried out a wave of unprecedented repression against Palestine solidarity, and they are focusing on one sentence in particular
Germany

Are they just handing out German passports now?

by Nathaniel Flakin on 17/08/2024
A new law makes it easier for some people to German citizenship. Nathaniel Flakin thinks everyone deserves equal rights
Current affairs

With a center like this, who needs fascists?

by Nathaniel Flakin on 03/07/2024
Tens of thousands of people mobilized against the far-right AfD. The government is nonetheless implementing parts of the Far Right's agenda.
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