A decade after trying–and failing–to impose a constitutional ban on the far right Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands, the National Democratic Party, Germany is attempting to outlaw it again. But this time lawmakers are confident they’ll succeed. Germany’s 16 state governors voted unanimously on Dec. 6 to seek a ban, and on Dec. 14 the country’s upper house of parliament, the Bundesrat, agreed to formally ask the Constitutional Court to rule the NPD an illegal political party. “We think it’s the right time politically,” says Dietmar Woidke, a Social Democratic Party lawmaker in Brandenburg’s state parliament, speaking ahead of the vote.
Year: 2012
Europe Faces a Multi-National General Strike Against Austerity
Austerity has spawned general strikes in individual countries across the troubled European Union. But this week may see something to add to the union’s tensions: a coordinated, multi-national mega-strike. Organized labor plans a general strike against the E.U.’s austerity policies, borderless and spanning the south of the continent. With more than 25 million people out of work, Europe’s biggest unions have vowed to lead marches and demonstrations on Nov. 14 that unite opposition parties, activist movements like Spain’s M15 and a growing sea of unemployed to challenge their national governments, banking leaders, the IMF and EU policymakers to abandon austerity cuts ahead of a high-stakes budgetmeeting in Brussels later this month.
America’s Green Summer
Ever seen a human oil spill? It’s not a lot like the real thing, except in the ways that it is: black, silent and ominously stationary – because these bodies, like crude, aren’t going anywhere.
The Occupy Caravan: Dispatch from Reno
Our caravan of three vehicles with nine riders pulled into Reno a little before six o’clock on Monday afternoon as the hot Sierra sun was still beating down on dozens of bathers out splashing around by the rocks in the Truckee River.
A Naval Commander for the 99% Stands Trial
Consider the story of Leah Bolger, the latest American hero up on trial: She is a young female artist in the Midwest. She joins the Navy at 22, is made commander and serves two decades as an anti-submarine warfare specialist. After retiring she joins Veterans for Peace and becomes the organization’s first female president. Then, in October of 2011, she commits the crime of interrupting a public congressional hearing of the Super Committee to deliver a message from the 99 percent: End the wars and tax the rich to fix the deficit.
Occupying War
There is the military kind of war and then there is the kind of war that happens in the streets. The first produces veterans. The second, gangbangers.
Austin is evicted – for now
Austin police subdue an unarmed demonstrator.
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On its surface, Friday night’s police raid, eviction and arrest of occupiers from the steps of City Hall in Austin, Texas, resembled other instances of state repression carried out against peaceful assemblies nationwide in recent weeks.