by theleftberlin editorial team This is the 500th article to appear on this Website. We’ve achieved quite a lot in a relatively short space of time. Our first article was an interview with Greek anti-fascist Petros Constantinou which appeared on October 3rd last year. Our layout has improved some since then, but we believe […]
Articles with tag “Politics”
Dominic Scummings
Dominic Cummings. Typing the name causes an involuntary shiver of disgust. Cummings is currently the Chief Adviser to UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson. Cummings was also the campaign director of the successful Vote Leave (pro-Brexit) campaign, and a special adviser to Michael Gove between 2007 and 2014. Some credentials. Despite often portraying himself – as […]
Brexit in the time of Corbyn – what’s going on in Britain?
In 2015, within 3½ months of each other, two important things happened [1]. On 27th May, David Cameron announced that there would be a referendum on Brexit. And on 12th September, Jeremy Corbyn was elected leader of the British Labour Party. These two events, which are rarely reported together, represented, in very different forms, the […]
What’s eating Sahra Wagenknecht? Aufstehen, refugees and racism
Why Sahra Wagenknecht’s Aufstehen movement is more about making concessions to racism than building a real movement