An interview with James McGovern of ‘The Murder Capital’. Their show at Gretchen in Berlin was canceled because they refused to take down their Palestine flag. Question: You were set to play in Berlin right? What happened? Answer: We pulled into the Berlin venue, sometime in the early afternoon. We saw in the tech specs […]
The Left Berlin News and Comment
Tracking the machinery of silencing
Inside the ELSC’s Index of Repression. Part 2
Academic hyperzionism
A radical critique of Ingo Elbe’s book “Antisemitism and Postcolonial Theory”
Red Flag: Watermelons at the Fusion Festival
In his weekly column, Nathaniel Flakin examines Berlin’s favorite radical left festival and Palestinian solidarity
I don’t think the center could hold even if it tried to
On the “No Kings” protests and the crackdown on expression in the United States
News from Berlin and Germany, 2nd July 2025
Weekly news round-up from Berlin and Germany
China is not a monolith
The Communist Party and socialist construction
3rd July 1988: Iran Air flight 655 is shot down
This week in working-class history
Will Labour address child poverty in the UK?
When tackling child poverty becomes a political choice and not a moral duty