Emmanuel Macron has named a Prime Minister from the right-wing party that came fourth in June’s elections.
The Left Berlin News and Comment
“It looks awfully like a race agenda about who are acceptable refugees, and who are not”
Interview with former British Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn
Macron’s Refusal to Nominate Lucie Castets Makes a Mockery of French Democracy
Emmanuel Macron is purposefully maintaining inertia to paralyse the political process in France.
News from Berlin and Germany, 4th September 2024
Weekly news round-up from Berlin and Germany
The Last Colony in Africa Fights On
Report from a delegation trip to the refugee camps in Western Sahara in April 2024
Berlin mayor insists on removing statue for victims of sexual slavery
Protest planned to save the “Comfort Women” statue
Berlin’s mayor loves antisemites, chapter 713
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.
“We must be discussing different forms of ownership”
Interview with Linda Holmes, tenant lawyer from Brooklyn
Intentional Provocation
Report from the parliamentary observer of the rally “Beats against genocide”