Reports have arrived today that the memorial for Ernst Thälmann in the small Brandenburg town of Ziegenhals is to be demolished, under instructions from the rightist council of Kreis Dahme-Spreewald. The memorial had been built as an anti-nazi memorial after WWII.(1) Continue reading “Prevent the removal of the Thälmann memorial in Ziegenhals”
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Results of the 2009 elections in Germany
The federal elections in Germany held past sunday have seen some provisionally official results published. The result is, as was expected by many, a sufficient victory for the liberal FDP to allow a coalition with the conservatives of the CDU/CSU, especially after the major collapse of the votes for the social-democratic SPD, which suffered its worst result since 1953. This is not surprising, since the SPD campaign led by Frank-Walter Steinmeier was possibly the first in which the social-democrats no longer even bothered talking about improving the welfare of the workers, but instead focused on sniping away at the ruling party, implying that the task of running liberal capitalism should be left to them instead.
The German voters rejected this out of hand. Continue reading “Results of the 2009 elections in Germany”