Weekly news round-up from Berlin and Germany
News & Comment
German election 2025: What went wrong?
A slight surge for die Linke cannot compensate for the CDU victory and the rising fascist threat
Film Review – Soundtrack to a Coup d’État
Johan Grimonprez’s new film is a superb introduction to the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, the continued exploitation of the post-independence Global South and jazz music
Battling Voter Apathy
Engagement in Germany’s Snap Election
The German Elections: an Explainer
Read the highlights from each party’s programme
Should Socialists in Neukölln Vote for Ferat Koçak?
The local candidate of Die Linke is a well-known antiracist activist — he even supports Palestine! But his party has a long record of deportations. What to do?
Bird: An Ecopoetics Reading
The role of ecology in the new film by the director of Fish Tank and Wuthering Heights
The Migrant Perspective on the German Federal Elections
Statement by the Bloque Latinoamericano on the upcoming Bundestagswahl
Dutch Labour Court confirms: Firing of Palestinian employee by Dutch company over solidarity with Palestinian resistance was discriminatory
Statement by the European Legal Support Center