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East Germany 1989: The Berlin Wall Comes Down as Power Lay in the Streets

November 10, 2019Ingmar Meinecke

On November 9, 1989 the Berlin Wall was pulled down in dramatic scenes. In the latest of our series marking the events of 1989 in Eastern Europe, Ingmar Meinecke of SAV (German section of the CWI-majority), who as a teenager participated in these events, explains what happened. “Dear friends, fellow citizens, it is as if […]

Collapse of the Soviet bloc 1989

September 25, 2019Rob Jones

Rob Jones is a member of Sotsialisticheskaya Alternativa (ISA in Russia). Revolutionary movement with counter-revolutionary consequences This article is the first in a series to commemorate the events of 1989 In Poland, on the 13th September 1989, the ‘Solidarnosc’ trade union, after winning an overwhelming majority in an election, formed the first ‘non-communist’ government in […]