The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is now Germany’s largest opposition group and even topped several opinion polls – ...

Four years later, in 1956, the far-left Communist Party of Germany (KPD) was also banned. Repeated attempts – in 2003, 2016 and 2021 – to ban the neo-Nazi National Democratic Party of Germany ...

Germany’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) officially launched an effort seeking to ban the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, according to The ...

In West Germany, on the other hand, Thälmann was either ignored or reviled. Communists were treated as criminals, even those who had survived Nazi persecution. The Communist Party of Germany (KPD) was ...

The experience of the KPD Erich Mielke was born in 1907 in the Berlin district of Wedding, the son of a cartwright. His parents were founding members of the KPD in 1918.

The KPD decided that the way forward in Germany was to do whatever it took to undermine the SPD government, even if this meant working side-by-side with Nazis. Based on the assumption that the working ...

Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebnecht, murdered by the Social Democrat government. By Graham MilnerThe German Communist Party (KPD) was founded in the very heat of revolutionary struggle. One of the party ...

For a century, the year 1923 has stood for a serious crisis in Germany’s political self-understanding. It is a year known for runaway inflation, the French–Belgian occupation of the Rhine and Ruhr, ...

This made the KPD a mass party, but it also brought new political problems. Between 1919 and 1921, ... after it had deployed armed police units against workers in central Germany.

06/03/2020 June 3, 2020. After Donald Trump claimed most protesters in the US were "antifa," Germany's Social Democrats rushed to declare solidarity with the movement.

Four years later, in 1956, the far-left Communist Party of Germany (KPD) was also banned. Repeated attempts – in 2003, 2016 and 2021 – to ban the neo-Nazi National Democratic Party of Germany ...