Berlin? Comrades?

I'm from Germany but I'm not from Berlin. So I'm sorry, can't help you directly.

There was a guy who also thinks of moving to Berlin with whom you might to hook up with:
http://libcom.org/forums/general/english-language-day-day-coverage-faugerman-iww-19122011

Thread also has info on local FAU, maybe you wanna check them out while you're in the city. Would be my first guess at where to meet comrades.

Lived there a few years ago and still visit regularly.

stressfaktor.squat.net

is the events programme for the various social centres, spaces, political and social activities, it ranges from punks to the FAU to left communists and everything in between. Mostly autonome though. The FAU have regular social events in various social spaces. It depends on where you'll be living as well though but you won't have a problem finding projects when you are there. Check out the address list on the website.

You should also check out the tempest library when you are there. It's international/multilingual anarchists (and some 'anti-state communists' I think) living in Berlin and some good people. If you have "latent insurrectionist sympathies" then you'll find it of interest.
http://tempestlibrary.com/

Apart from that, I'm not sure what else. Have you got a place to live and job sorted out? It's getting more difficult to find cheap apartments in the usual places and there's a lot of "residential tourists" in Berlin so don't expect to find english language bar, cafe, etc. work. I'd really recommend getting your german up to speed in that regard, but for getting by and meeting people you'll be fine.

There's quite a few theoretical groups around, not sure exactly of your leanings and what you're looking for. Maybe friends of the classless society/kosmoprolet might be something of interest to you?

http://libcom.org/tags/friends-classless-society

I can give you the same contact as george mentioned in the other thread. Send me a PM if you want.

Is there a German Language Site Simular to Libcom?

You could get in touch with Wildcat Germany as well, they might have people in Berlin

"Is there a German Language Site Simular to Libcom?"

As far as I know: no.

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@ scottydont

I life in Berlin. If you have any questions, pm me or ask her.

If you're interested in the mainstream expad-community: http://www.exberliner.com/ .

What are your reasons for moving to berlin?

Regards,
klaus

First: My english is pretty bad but better that then nothing.

Here some infos about the left scene in berlin:

Starting at the right: the Linkspartei (Left Party) or Die Linke: The Left Party or The Left (http://www.die-linke.de/) is a left social-democratic party with round about 8.000 Members in Berlin. The Left Party has been a member of the so called red-red coalition as one of the two ruling partys of Berlin (from 2002 to 2011). More about this party at wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linkspartei . The Left Party is a mix between a party for Eastgermany and left social-democratics.

There are some ML-Partys like the German Communist Party (DKP) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Communist_Party), some maoist Partys like the Marxist Leninist Party of Germany (MLPD) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxist%E2%80%93Leninist_Party_of_Germany) and some trotskyist Partys but they don't play a real role in the left scene.

Many people are involved at the spontaneist / autonomist / anti-fascist szene. Between 1.000 and 2.000 People and nearly as much organisations. One of the major groups are TOP Berlin (http://top-berlin.net/) and ARAB (http://arab.blogsport.de/). You can find more infos at http://www.antifa.de/ . Once a year there is the revolutionary 1. May Demonstration with 10.000 – 15.000 participants.

The explicit anarchist scene is much smaller. Maybe 100 – 200 People. The biggest organisation is the FAU but they are small.

At the left of the left and theory oriented are groups like junge linke (junge-linke.org) and GegenStandpunkt (http://gegenstandpunkt.com/english/en_index.html) / http://kk-gruppe.net .

The so called Antideutschen – Anti-Germans – are a small group but they have some influence.

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There are two importent issues for the left scene in Berlin: The normal antifa and gentrification.

http://www.chefduzen.de/ (forum on workers' struggles)

http://wildcat-www.de/

http://syndikalismus.wordpress.com/

http://x-berg.de/ (some good discussions)

I am friends with one of the guys in TOP and his English is pretty good.

Also for a more humourous/satirical introduction to Berlin.

http://www.ichwerdeeinberliner.com/

The ICC has comrades in Berlin. You can contact the German section here: http://de.internationalism.org/contact

The ICC as an organisation does not exist in Berlin. There could be some comrads, but as an organisation they work in cologne and some other citys and not in Berlin. Or maybe I'm just blind.

we are not talking huge numbers here, but they do exist.

Only in this case not anarchist.

BTW I'm signing my contract and moving assuming I hit no visa issues and the job offer isn't an elaborate identity theft scam! Should be in around March 1st if all goes well.

libcom needs a +1 facility just for Shorty's comment.

Hey, well everyone... the FAU-IAA are holding an English language event in Berlin this Friday 6th July at 8:00 pm at the FAU headquarters. Also a group of us foreign, English speaking FAU members have started meeting as a working group, check out this other thread for the info on the meeting:

http://libcom.org/forums/announcements/berlin-fau-meeting-english-fau-foreign-workers-working-group-02072012

It would be great if anyone who knew folks from out of Germany living in Berlin could make them aware of this. Also obviously we'd really love any English speakers moving to Berlin (whose German is lacking or none existent) to get in touch with us. Currently those of us involved come from all over, but meet in English; however as numbers grow other working groups could be set up in other languages.

Medwards gonna be there aren't you Medwards?

Hey if any non-native German speakers are moving to Berlin, live in Berlin or are visiting Berlin and share our politics they can get in touch with the FAU foreigners working group at via this group email address:

faub-aus@fau.org