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Germany: Resisting the nazis on the shop floor
Frederik Blauwhof looks at the rise of the far right in Germany and the trade union movement's response
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IN THE town of Goerlitz, located right on Saxony’s Czech border, the dangers of the current political polarisation are perhaps are laid bare for all to see.
Workers in the Goerlitz district have suffered disproportionally from neoliberal onslaught following reunification, with wages at the lowest level of any county in Germany at barely two-thirds the national average and significantly more unemployment at 8.3 per cent.
Aside from Siemens and Bombardier, which have sizeable plants there and employ about 2,000 workers in unionised jobs, hardly any company pays significantly above minimum wage.
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