DEMOCRATIC GREEN SOCIALIST

Issue No. 9 - Nov/Dec 2009

20th Anniversary of Fall of Berlin Wall - special issue

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Solidarity

Defend Tommy Sheridan

Richard Dawkins

Stop the War

Robert Owen Institute

Socialist Unity

Published by the Democratic Green Socialists. Letters/submissions to :- democraticgreensocialist@talktalk.net

Marx and Engels guard the Fernsehtrum (post office)Tower, Berlin.

photo courtesy of Steve Mowat

Contents:

Editorial - Fall of the Wall – Twenty years on, DGS dedicates an entire issue to the fall of the Soviet Bloc and asks whether its time for an historical re-evaluation.
Lessons of the Glasgow North East by – election

Bust the BNP initiative.

Histories, Analyses and Views Part 1- Auferstanden Aus Ruinen, Andy Newman argues we need to remember both the good and the bad about the DDR. John Wight laments the passing of the USSR in a brief history of the Soviet Union. Neil Davidson celebrates The revolutions of 1989. Sinead Daly and Christine Thomas on Women and Family after the fall of the wall. Kevin Williamson argues Freedom is a Noble Thing

Science - Steve Arnott on The cold war and the space race

Culture - Film: Graeme McIver reviews Goodbye Lenin, and Anne Edmonds reviews The Lives of Others
Books: Graham Jepps reviews The Case of Comrade Tuleyev by Victor Serge. Three cheers for more equal societies as Dave Watt Reviews The Spirit Level

Art: Liz Walker on Art and the Revolution: Before, During and After
Histories, Analyses And Views Part 2 - Defend October, not Stalinism argues Luke Ivory. As an ‘informed tourist’ Steve Mowat casts his eye From Berlin to Bulgaria and The People behind the Wall – Gary Fraser on the sociological history of East Germany

Dave Watt’s Mediawatch

Your Letters - Graham Campbell on Glasgow North and the BNP plus Fraser & Wight debate Immigration & Left Unity

The BNP have had to close down their freepost address following the excellent facebook campaign 'Bankrupt the BNP' They say on their siite "Please be aware that our FREEPOST address is no longer operational due to sustained abuse and illegal activity from our political opponents". This matter is currently under police ...investigation

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