Schlagwort: GDR
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Lynn Walsh: Can Germany reunite?
[Militant No. 981, 23 February 1990 p. 8-9] Events in East Germany (GDR) have moved with lightning speed. Until a couple of weeks ago, unification seemed a remote possibility. Now it appears quite possible within a few months. Last year, the Stalinist regime of Honecker was swept from power by a magnificent movement of the…
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Lynn Walsh: German unification: capitalism triumphant?
[Militant International Review, No 43, Spring 1990, p. 14-22] Lynn Walsh argues that, in the absence of a clear alternative, the collapse of East Germany’s Stalinist regime, combined with the overwhelming impression of prosperity in West Germany, undermined the movement towards the political revolution begun by last years mass demonstrations. What are the prospects now?…