MARC VANDEPITTE says AI is driving the pace of destruction to unprecedented speed
AROUND 5,000 in Leipzig and another 1,000 in Berlin last Monday took part in the first rallies of a campaign that’s being called the start of a “hot autumn” of resistance to Ukraine war-imposed hardships on German workers.
Demonstrators demanded caps on gas and electricity prices, the abolition of gas surcharges that fall on the working class, nationalisation of the energy industry, and an end to the economic war the German government is waging with Russia.
Along with other EU countries, Germany has imposed economic sanctions on Russian energy sales in a bid to punish President Vladimir Putin for his invasion of Ukraine. But in a boomerang effect, the effort at fiscal warfare is hitting working people in Germany much harsher than it is the Russian state.
NICK WRIGHT returns to Berlin and finds a city in darkness and political turmoil
The German Chancellor seeks EU sanctions on the Nord Stream 1 pipeline to prevent future governments from resuming Russian gas deliveries, delivering a devastating blow to German industry — and German workers, writes RAINER RUPP
In part two of May’s Berlin Bulletin, VICTOR GROSSMAN, having assessed the policies of the new government, looks at how the opposition is faring



