Hot Air and Wrong Priorities
Articles
Schulpflicht in Times of Corona is Racist – and Murderous
Even when there isn’t a deadly virus roaming the streets and the U-Bahn, the German school system is still racist af
The Problem of Pablo Picasso
Introduction Picasso poses a problem for the supporters of Marxist-Leninist view of socialist art. What ideology – both subjectively and objectively – did he represent? What are the advocates of realism in the arts to make of Picasso’s love of gross anatomical distortions? How do most people react to his, perhaps most famous work […]
Please stop telling me that everything‘s fine in Germany
Reports that Angela Merkel’s government is dealing well with the Covid pandemic are not based in reality
How Berlin nursery workers are affected by Coronavirus
Some thoughts of a nursery worker after a stressful week
Macron and France in the Deluge
The epidemic in France has already claimed 2 000 lives, and it is early days yet. Two presidential speeches, Thursday 12th March and Monday 16th March, have transformed life in France, closing school, universities, non-essential shops, parks, cinemas, restaurants and so on. The speeches also transformed French politics, I think, for the next decade, and they […]
Germany is protecting the economy, not the people
Angela Merkel’s speech to the nation called for “social distance”, but health protection in the workplace is neglected
Photo Gallery: International Women’s Day, 8 March 2020
Photos by Antony Hamilton and Karsten Schmitz
Photos from our meeting: Fighting Fascism from Greece to Germany
7 March 2020, Karl Liebknecht Haus