Germany
Introduction to debate on the new 'under classes' - Wildcat Germany
Having a historical look at labour migration and welfare policies in Germany, Wildcat criticises the current attempt of those in power in Germany to create an image of the dangerous under-classes as opposed to the class of decent working people.
Introduction to debate on the new 'under classes'1
Cologne: occupation of the Barmer Block housing estate, 2006 - Wildcat
Text published in Wildcat in summer 2006 reporting on the internal dynamics of a major housing estate occupation in Cologne in Spring 2006.
Cologne: 'Barmer Block' occupied. The feeling of great potential...
For over three months in the 'Barmer Block' housing estate an unusual squatting experiment took place.
German airline hit by wildcat strike
Workers at Condor Berlin last week walked out for four hours in an unofficial strike against a new work schedule.
Condor Berlin, a Condor Airlines subsidiary, was hit On Thursday 14 December and five flights were affected.
Atwonline.com claimed that the action was organised by the ver.di union.
Ver.di and Condor management have restarted talks that were suspended in February 2005. The carrier wants its 240 cabin staff to transfer to a flight-hour system from a daily work schedule.
How the Allied multinationals supplied Nazi Germany throughout World War II
The following excerpts thoroughly document how capitalists really acted during the Second World War. Behind the patriotic propaganda that encouraged the working class to slaughter each other in the interests of competing national interests, international capital quietly kept the commodity circuits flowing and profits growing across all borders.
Going east: Direct investments in Eastern Europe
Article looking at the flow of investments from Germany (and elsewhere in Western Europe) to countries further east.
“Then I will leave and go to the east!”
What some decades ago might have been a defiant outcry of desillusioned lefty teachers, under the threat of dismissal due to their CP membership, is now taken up again and realised by the ‘class enemy’.
1919-1945: The Proletarischer Zeitgeist
A short history of the radical German workers' newspaper Proletarischer Zeitgeist from its birth in the AAUE union through its political development to its decline.
In 1922 the majority of the membership of the councilist union the AAUE (United General Workers Union) of Zwickau was expelled because of their participation in the works councils in the railway workshops and the mines. This majority retained control of the AAUE paper, Weltkampf, so the remainder of the Zwickau AAUE founded the paper Proletarischer Zeitgeist (Proletarian Spirit of the Times).
Glaser, Georg Katharina, 1910-1995
A short biography of worker, autodidact, writer, anarchist and anti-Nazi German Georg Katharina Glaser.
Georg Katharina Glaser
Born Georg Kreuz Glaser, 30 June 1910 – Germany, died 18 January 1995 - Paris
Georg was born on 30th June 1910, Guntersblum, Rheinhesse, Germany. Georg later changed his middle name which means Cross to that of Katharina in honour of his beloved mother.
School occupations and strikes, Germany, 2005
Two short articles on school strikes and occupations in Germany in 2005.
Strike at car supplier stops production at DaimlerChrysler, 2005
Germany: production halted in DaimlerChrysler plant when about 50 to 60 of the 336 workers at Dräxlmaier (Bremen) blocked the factory gates on Monday, 4 of April.
Update on Hartz IV/welfare reform, 2005
Article by prol-position on the reforms of German unemployment benefit after their introduction, and the effects it has had on the working class.
