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Phil Butland

Phil Butland

Phil Butland is a socialist from Bradford, Northern England. He founded the Berlin LINKE Internationals and is now active with The Left Berlin and Sozialismus von Unten (SvU). Alongside his political activities, Phil is the curator of the CinePhil Berliner Film Blog

Written by Phil ButlandThe Left Berlin
Policing & Law

Irish politicians condemn a “show trial” in Germany

by Phil Butland, Roser Gari Perez on 24/07/2026
Parliamentarians visit the latest Ulm5 trial
Ulm5

“It’s in everybody’s interest to stand up against this genocidal warmongering impulse”

by Phil Butland on 22/07/2026
Interview with Richard Boyd-Barrett, leader of a delegation of Irish politicians visiting the Ulm5
Culture

June 25th 1965: Dylan goes electric

by Phil Butland on 22/07/2026
This week in working class history
Fascism

Trying to make sense of the Holocaust

by Phil Butland on 21/07/2026
Interview with historian Donny Gluckstein
Fascism

4 July 1926 – Second Nazi Party Conference in Weimar

by Phil Butland on 01/07/2026
This week in working class history
Fascism

Stop the growth of Fascism in Germany

by Phil Butland on 24/06/2026
Why you should join the blockades of the AfD Conference on July 4th
Climate

“Air pollution is the result of the neoliberal transformation of the city”

by Phil Butland on 23/06/2026
Interview with Bermet Borubaeva, socialist and climate activist from Kyrgyzstan
Culture

“Being Jewish is not going to protect me in this country”

by Phil Butland on 20/06/2026
Artist Liad Hussein Kantorowicz on leaving Germany and the attempted cancellation of her final show
History

18 June 1984: The Battle of Orgreave

by Phil Butland on 16/06/2026
This week in working class history
Culture

“The festival shifts the focus from state violence ‘from above’ to radical organizing ‘from below’.”

by Phil Butland on 16/06/2026
Interview with the organisers of the Aus der Nachts heraus 8 film festival
Germany

Why anti-Zionist Jews are not welcome in Germany

by Phil Butland on 12/06/2026
Review: Germany’s Jewish Problem by Wieland Hoban
History

13 June 1956: Britain leaves Suez

by Phil Butland on 10/06/2026
This week in working class history
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