East Germany (GDR)

Is one Germany better than two?

Was it better for the world’s oppressed and exploited to have one German state or two? The question arises as…

April 20, 2023

Tech layoffs expose capitalism

High-tech companies are laying off workers at record levels. More than 93,000 tech positions have been eliminated this year, and…

February 20, 2023

My 70 years and the departed GDR

Karl-Marx-Allee, Berlin August 2022 — It’s a momentous day! Not for the world — for which it’s nothing special. But…

September 9, 2022

‘I was never afraid of the big shots’: A conversation with German lawyer Friedrich Wolff

By Frank Schumann junge Welt, July 23 Workers World makes excerpts from this interview available in English, as it gives…

August 12, 2022

Greece feels iron fist of a German Ahab

Berlin Bulletin No. 95, July 16, 2015 The crisis over Greece has put German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble, the chief…

July 18, 2015

Letter on the Berlin Wall and the war between capitalism and socialism

In response to the Nov. 11 editorial, “The wall & counterrevolution,” published on the 25th anniversary of the end of…

January 11, 2015