Loren Balhorn is editor in chief of Jacobin’s German-language edition.
The United States is home to some of the world’s leading universities, research institutes, and academic conferences. But non-US researchers are increasingly excluded from the centers of scholarly exchange — all because they can’t get a visa.
The European elections marked a historic setback for the German left. Die Linke cochair Katja Kipping tells Jacobin how she plans to revive it.
The Social Democrats’ subordination to Angela Merkel has brought the German center-left to its knees. If the party wants to stop its voters from fleeing to the Greens and the far right, it needs to decide what side it’s on — and fight for it.
As its voter base collapses, Germany’s once-mass Social Democratic Party appears to be headed into the political abyss. To make things worse, its leaders think the answer lies in a further shift to the right.
How the West Berlin squatter scene produced Germany’s greatest rock band.
The European elections delivered a crushing blow to the German Social Democrats. Only a miracle can save them now.
As voters elect a new European Parliament, the Left is split between multiple “unity projects.” And none of them have a clear idea how to transform the EU.
On Berlin’s May Day 1929, the latent hostility between Social Democrats and Communists finally spilled over into bloodshed. A day meant to demonstrate workers’ unity instead showed tragic divisions in the face of rising Nazism.
The decisive battles of the German Revolution ended in March 1919 with the bloody crushing of the workers’ uprising. Why did it meet such a fate?
The Comintern was founded on this day in 1919 to carry revolution around the world. We are only now recovering from the legacy of its failure.
On the 100th anniversary of her murder, Rosa Luxemburg’s incredible life provides us with a model — not necessarily of what to do, but of how to do it.
German socialists knew the craze for schnapps was a plague on working-class life. They fought it by building their organizations around beer.
In today’s Germany, Wolfgang Streeck argues, politicians laud “Europe” — while quietly using EU structures to advance German national interests.
How the Green Party wunderkind transformed German capitalism, and with it, himself.
Last month German metal workers won the right to a 28-hour workweek — after going on strike to demand a better work-life balance.
A membership surge in the German Social Democratic Party has sparked talks of a Corbyn-like transformation. But don’t get too excited just yet.
A look at counterculture behind the Iron Curtain.
Germany’s elections show that the country is not insulated from a crisis-prone Europe, but part and parcel of it.
As German elections loom this Sunday, cracks may be starting to show in Merkel’s radical centrist reign.
German workers fighting for a fair contract with Amazon could transform the service sector on a global scale.