IAN LAVERY MP says an immediate focus on raising wages and reducing costs must be part of a strategy to show Labour can deliver for workers again
Red Tourists DDR diary week 5
Union and antifa demos, Stasi and GDR nostalgia museums and a half decent bar crawl through Dresden old town
(L to R) Karl Marx monument created by the Soviet sculptor, Lev Kerbel; interior of a GDR/DDR flat
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Friedrich Merz’s call for a new Plaza Accord ignores how Washington’s 1985 currency ambush destroyed Japan without fixing US deficits — China, a sovereign socialist state with 1.4 billion consumers, cannot be bullied the same way, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ
World Peace Council president PALLAB SENGUPTA assesses the challenges facing the international peace movement and sends greetings to the Liberation AGM
KIERA MARSHALL says there is a gulf between the privileged circles in which most politicians move and the lives of working-class youth in left-behind estates – and as a newly elected Senedd member she’s determined to do something about it
ANGUS REID and ANDREW JOHNSTONE report on an initiative that we must take this summer
At last weekend’s International Conference Against War, LINDA PENTZ GUNTER talks to the Palestinian physician and politician about the struggles ahead to achieve a truly free Palestine
SO HERE is the fifth instalment of our DDR, and we would understand if you think we’re really milking it now. But fear not, just one more to go after this, as the sixth instalment will be our last.
This week’s we document our visit to Karl-Marx-Stadt, which really was quite impressive. We also paid a visit to Dresden where we visited another Stasi Museum and, yes you guessed it, another DDR nostalgia museum.
As always, we really appreciate you taking the time to read this and hope you’ll take the time to read our final instalment next week.
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