The crew of the Freedom Flotilla boat, Handala, warned Israel to obey international law but are now in captivity, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
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The Krelle case – how former Nazis helped dismantle socialism in the GDR
Post-unification, an entire generation of GDR citizens had their qualifications devalued or disregarded in a sinister anti-left purge that was termed the ‘changing of the elite.’ JOHN GREEN reports
January 1991: Students and lecturers at Berlin’s Humboldt University protest over the job assessment procedures and liquidation of former GDR educational institutes. The banner reads, with reference to Marx’s famous quote: ‘Those in the East and the West have only interpreted the Federal Republic differently, the point however is to change it’
A Chilean court ruled that funds were illegally taken by the dictator to accumulate family wealth that is now disputed among his heirs, writes PABLO MERIGUET
DAVID HORSLEY remembers communist seaman Bill Bailey, the ‘Kid from Hoboken,’ whose heroics in tearing down a swastika flag from a ship’s mast inspired early anti-fascist resistance
Our Foreign Secretary now condemns Israel in the Commons, yet Britain still supplies weapons and intelligence for its bombing campaigns — as the horror reaches perhaps the final stage, action must finally replace words, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
I went to bed planning for university, but woke to bombs falling on Gaza, losing my home, best friend, and nearly my hand — yet I am unbroken, and still dream of writing to carry Palestinian voices worldwide, writes EMAN GHASSAN ABUZAYED
The shock suspension of socialist MPs and Diane Abbott’s re-suspension reveals a leadership intent on crushing internal debate — but MERCEDES VILLALBA MSP warns against surrendering party democracy without a fight
IN THE wake of Holocaust Memorial Day, it is perhaps useful to be reminded that Germany’s Nazi past is far from overcome.
Since German unification, over 30 years ago, there has been a deliberate and ongoing attempt to rewrite history, with the GDR portrayed as the twin evil of Nazism.
There has been a largely successful attempt to prettify the reputation of the Federal Republic as the country that came to terms with its Nazi past, confronting and dealing with the evil of that period.
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