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- Gegen neonazistische Musikgruppen
- Bundestagsfraktion Buendnis 90/Die Gruenen,
Pressemitteilung Nr. 0956/97, 11 November 1997. Der erneute
erschreckende Anstieg rechtsextremer Straftaten und die
Zunahme von Konzerten neonazistischer Musikgruppen verweist
auf eine neue Entwicklung im Bereich des
- 100,000 fight back the neoliberal attack on
education in Germany
- By Andreas Hippin, 6 December 1997. Anke Brunnn, the
social democrat secretary for education, is responsible for
all the cutbacks in education in the state of
Northrhine-Westphalia. Her party is as eager to streamline
higher education according to the interests of the industry
as the conservatives are.
- Tens of thousands of students in Germany
protest education Cuts
- By Ernesto Oleinik, Militant, 15 December
1997. In the largest student demonstrations in Germany in
nearly 30 years, protesting a lack of study materials, a new
law shortening the time students are allowed to study, and
the overfilled classrooms in which students sometimes
outnumber professors 600 to one.
- Soaring Nazi movement: The new lifestyle of
- By Brenda Williams, Germany Alert special
report, 12 November 1998. Right-wing extremism is on its way
to becoming the norm. Without visible resistance, a type of
counterculture is being created in which the ethical and
humanistic values of democracy no longer have a place.
- The Nazi siren's call
- By Lionel Richard, Le Monde diplomatique,
October 2002. Leni Riefenstahl's birthday was marked by
the publication in Germany of books about her by two young
authors, Lutz Kinkel and Jürgen Trimborn, who provide
documentary evidence to refute the claim that she was
apolitical and that her ambitions were purely artistic.
- No chance to mourn its passing: Ostaglia for
- By Peter Linden and Benjamin Wuttke, Le Monde
diplomatique, August 2004. Germany is now in economic
distress; the Socialist-Green coalition in power is selling
off public assets and dismantling the social welfare
system. Unemployment is high. No wonder the Easterners are
nostalgic for their protected past.