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    Activists warn of the growing militarisation of the Indonesian government under General Prawobo

    Originally published: The Left Berlin on May 11, 2025 by Roser Gari Perez (more by The Left Berlin)  | (Posted May 13, 2025)

    Interview with Activist M. on the growing military influences on civil life threatening Indonesia’s dearly earned peace.

  •  | Picture Public Domain | MR Online

    The Great Gatsby 100 years later

    Originally published: The Left Berlin on April 28, 2025 by Richard Bradbury (more by The Left Berlin)  | (Posted Apr 30, 2025)

    The relevance of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s most famous work today on its centennial.

  •  | London demonstration against the Supreme Court ruling 19th April 2025 Photo Guy Smallman wwwguysmallmancom | MR Online

    We are the resistance

    Originally published: The Left Berlin on April 22, 2025 by Anna Southern (more by The Left Berlin)  | (Posted Apr 25, 2025)

    The UK Supreme Court does not change the reality of trans and non-binary people.

  •  | Hutomo CC40 | MR Online

    Halt Indonesia’s slide into military dictatorship

    Originally published: The Left Berlin on March 26, 2025 by The Left Berlin Staff (more by The Left Berlin)  | (Posted Mar 31, 2025)

    Repeal the authoritarian TNI law before it’s too late!

  •  | Photo Jackie CC20 | MR Online

    Must dance and have a moustache

    Originally published: The Left Berlin on January 20, 2025 (more by The Left Berlin)  | (Posted Jan 23, 2025)

    Thoughts on gay male culture as the Village People perform at the Trump inauguration.

  •  | Picture Rodrio555 CC40 | MR Online

    Mary and her monster

    Originally published: The Left Berlin on January 4, 2025 by Judy Cox (more by The Left Berlin)  | (Posted Jan 14, 2025)

    Some thoughts on Mary Shelley and Frankenstein.

  •  | Jean Marie Le Pen | MR Online

    Jean-Marie Le Pen: Life and death of a Nazi

    Originally published: The Left Berlin on January 10, 2025 (more by The Left Berlin)  |

    John Mullen writes about the Nazi and colonial origins of Jean Marie Le Pen, and how they continue to influence French politics today.

  •  | CC BY SA 20 flickr user Velvet 59 | MR Online

    The Gisèle Pelicot case: A catalyst for change in justice and society

    Originally published: The Left Berlin on January 3, 2025 by Viivi Suhonen (more by The Left Berlin)  | (Posted Jan 06, 2025)

    The trial over the decade-long abuse involving numerous men has shaken many, and requires us to demand societal and judicial change.

  •  | Trade unionists on antiracist demo in Paris 14 December 2024 Photo John Mullen | MR Online

    Macron appoints Zombie government in France

    Originally published: The Left Berlin on December 29, 2024 by Phil Butland (more by The Left Berlin)  |

    After the fall of right-wing PM Michel Barnier to a no-confidence vote, Emmanuel Macron has appointed a new Prime Minister, François Bayrou, to attempt to apply the same policies. The Left Berlin spoke to Paris activist, John Mullen.

  •  | Photo Joost J Bakker CC20 | MR Online

    The Valencia floods have one clear culprit: Capitalism

    Originally published: The Left Berlin on November 4, 2024 by Roser Gari Perez (more by The Left Berlin)  | (Posted Nov 07, 2024)

    Capitalism and Spain’s right wing parties are responsible for Valencia flooding deaths.

  •  | Photo Karen Eliot CC20 | MR Online

    “Queers for Palestine” is not self-hatred

    Originally published: The Left Berlin on August 11, 2024 by Caspar Schallar (more by The Left Berlin)  | (Posted Aug 14, 2024)

    Queer people fight for a liberated and just world. Their solidarity with Palestine is therefore simply consistent.

  •  | Haus der Deutschen Kunst Munich formerly the Führermuseum Photographer unknown CC by SA 30 | MR Online

    German culture must confront its past

    Originally published: The Left Berlin on July 31, 2024 by Emily O'Sullivan (more by The Left Berlin)  | (Posted Aug 06, 2024)

    How Palestine turned a classical musician and recovering child prodigy into a revolutionary.

  •  | Corbyn | MR Online

    Jeremy Corbyn’s Independent campaign in Britain’s 2024 General Election

    Originally published: The Left Berlin on August 2, 2024 by David Rosenberg (more by The Left Berlin)  | (Posted Aug 05, 2024)

    A View from the Inside.

  •  | Rowan Place de la Republique | MR Online

    French elections : Antifascist victory and deep political crisis

    Originally published: The Left Berlin on July 9, 2024 (more by The Left Berlin)  |

    Election results in France bring joy but also reveal a difficult road ahead.

  •  | Casualties in Gaza Strip Photo Saleh Najm and Anas Sharif Fars Media Corporation CC40 | MR Online

    Open letter by Gaza academics and university administrators to the world

    Originally published: The Left Berlin on May 29, 2024 by The Left Berlin Staff (more by The Left Berlin)  | (Posted May 31, 2024)

    We call on our supporters to help us resist the Israeli campaign of scholasticide and rebuild our universities

  •  | Students prepare for the Polices approach to the barricade they had set up on Grimburgal on May 8 all images and videos in this article courtesy of the student and staff coalition for Palestine | MR Online

    Forget securitisation of the academy, we are now fully militarized

    Originally published: The Left Berlin on May 12, 2024 by Eleri Connick (more by The Left Berlin)  | (Posted May 14, 2024)

    Dutch Universities are waging war on their own students and Palestine activists.

  •  | Freie Universität Berlin | MR Online

    Police brutality against students and silencing of Palestine solidarity at Freie Universität Berlin

    Originally published: The Left Berlin on December 27, 2023 by Transnational University Solidarity Initiative (more by The Left Berlin)  | (Posted Dec 28, 2023)

    Open letter from students and non-tenured academics

  •  | Berlin Bans All Solidarity | MR Online

    Berlin bans all solidarity – an “Ausländer’s” perspective

    Originally published: The Left Berlin on October 18, 2023 by Nathaniel Flakin (more by The Left Berlin)  | (Posted Oct 19, 2023)

    This is a strange time in Berlin. All expressions of solidarity with the people in Gaza have been banned

  •  | Picture from the rally Jan Maas | MR Online

    Joint assessment of the “Rise Up for Peace” rally

    Originally published: The Left Berlin on February 28, 2023 by Christine Buchholz (more by The Left Berlin)  | (Posted Mar 02, 2023)

    A translated statement from three Die Linke politicians on the “Rise Up for Peace” demonstration in Berlin and the need for Die Linke to become active as an anti-war party.

  •  | Photo Steve Eason cropped CC20 | MR Online

    Who is Mick Lynch?

    Originally published: The Left Berlin on August 15, 2022 by John Puntis (more by The Left Berlin)  | (Posted Aug 20, 2022)

    The rail workers’ leader offers the most visible opposition to Britain’s Tory government.

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    1. Introduction The predominance of US economic, political and military power in the world was established at the end of the Second World War.1 With just 6.3 percent of global population, the United States held about 50 percent of the world wealth in 1948. As the only power which had used nuclear weapons on civilian […]

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