Germany

Behind stock market swings: World capitalist slowdown looms

Oct. 19 — A global capitalist slowdown has sent world stock markets into decline, from Wall Street to London, Berlin…

October 22, 2014

How the corporate media profit from Israeli genocide

NBC 'witchhunts' reporters who don’t give official line An anonymous NBC producer described “a top-down intimidation campaign aimed at presenting…

August 5, 2014

When children are ‘the enemy’

Printed from a July 13 audio column aired by Prison Radio at prisonradio.org. I’ve been watching for days now, as…

July 28, 2014

100 years later — what caused World War I?

On June 28 just a century ago, Gavrilo Princip, a 19-year-old patriot from the oppressed nation of Bosnia-Herzegovina, assassinated Archduke Ferdinand…

July 11, 2014

French workers stage 148 strikes

The largest and most militant of France’s five major trade union confederations, the CGT, filed 148 “strike notices” for actions…

February 17, 2014

Eurozone imperialism swallows Latvia

Latvia, a small country on the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, officially joined the Eurozone on Jan. 1. The…

January 11, 2014

German union takes on Internet giant

Starting last March and again during the December holiday rush, the German service workers’ union Ver.di, which is organizing the…

January 3, 2014

Solidarity from Seattle workers

On Dec. 16, when more than 1,000 workers at Amazon.com in Germany walked off the job to protest getting lower…

January 3, 2014

German elections: Merkel’s victory hides uneasy future

Angela Merkel’s third election as chancellor of Germany with the victory of her center-right CDU-CSU party opens a window on…

October 4, 2013

Amazon workers strike in Germany

Workers at Amazon’s biggest warehouses in Germany, in the cities of Bad Hersfeld and Leipzig, went out on strike on…

September 24, 2013