The high-profile faction leader of Die Linke, Sahra Wagenknecht, has been working for months on a movement to unite left-wing politicians across party boundaries. The movement now has a name and is about to go online.
The Rote Flora is known throughout the European left-wing scene as a gathering place for activists and radicals. And now this venue is at the centre of debate about left-wing violence in Hamburg amid the G20 summit.
Two car burnings in the Neukölln district of Berlin are being treated as politically motivated crimes because the owners were active in opposing the far-right scene.
This might have not even been newsworthy back in the nineties, but it is a rare sight today. Anarchists are burnin’ stuff in the capital in revenge at 'die Scheiß Bullen.'
Berlin is a traditional hot spot of trouble during Labour Day demonstrations on May 1st. But the situation remained relatively calm this year with only a short outbreak of violence from the far left.
More than 60 police officers and several demonstrators were injured in clashes in the eastern German city of Leipzig on Saturday as far-left protesters rallied against a neo-Nazi demonstation, police said.
Political violence hit a record high in Germany last year with authorities registering more than 30,000 politically motivated crimes, according to figures released on Friday.
A police officer was seriously hurt in clashes between police and anti-capitalist demonstrators in Germany’s finance capital Frankfurt on Saturday. Protestors also reported injuries and mass arrests from their ranks.
Around 70 people were arrested and 30 police officers injured during riots in Berlin early on Sunday after several incidents blamed on left-wing activists escalated.
Police are trying to find the authors and distributors of what has been described as a criminal handbook full of tips for saboteurs on how to commit arson, stop trains and cut down electricity pylons without getting caught, according to <i>Der Spiegel</i> magazine.
In the face of security gaps and overstretched police, the mounting threat of radical political violence could explode on the traditional protest day of May Day and possibly lead to deaths and hundreds of injuries, the head of the police union warned Thursday.
Berlin police face fresh claims of brutality in the wake of a violent neo-Nazi demonstration on Saturday in which anti-fascist counter-protesters clashed with riot police, daily <i>Der Tagesspiegel</i> reported Monday.
