Mask-off outbursts by Maga insiders and most strikingly, the destruction and reconstruction of the presidential seat, with a huge new $300m ballroom, means Trump isn’t planning to leave the White House when his term ends, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
PROGRESSIVE and anti-fascist groups have condemned the persecution of activists in Germany and the repression of protesters who raised their voices against the crackdown. On Saturday June 3, security forces violently cordoned off more than 1,000 demonstrators in the city of Leipzig.
They were protesting prison sentences given to anti-fascist activist Lina E (28) and three other co-defendants — Lennart A, Jonathan Philipp M, and Jannis R — by the Higher Regional Court of Dresden on May 31. The four were charged with attacks on far-right extremists between 2018 to 2022 and running a left-wing “extremist group.”
The court sentenced Lina E to five years and three months in prison and gave shorter sentences to the other three. Anti-fascist groups in Germany organised protest marches against the verdict in cities, including Berlin, on May 31. Far-right groups and parties like the Alternative for Germany welcomed the verdict.
With the recent release of Paul Thomas Anderson’s movie One Battle After Another, STEPHEN ARNELL gives the storied history of the British real-life left-wing urban guerillas
The decision highlights the tension between freedom of expression and the state’s role in shaping historical memory at former concentration camps, reports LEON WYSTRYCHOWSKI



