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A former head of the German domestic intelligence service, who is carving out a career in right-wing politics, on Sunday dismissed a new party on the left as "communist" in response to a suggestion that they shared common ground. Hans-Georg Maaßen, who was eased out of his position with the intelligence agency in 2018 after comments about violence directed at migrants, announced this week that he was leaving Germany's main centre-right party, the Christian Democratic Union (C...

The former head of Germany's domestic intelligence service who lost his job after appearing to downplay violence against migrants has announced his intention to resign from the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party. Hans-Georg Maaßen, a long-time CDU politician, announced his plans on Thursday in a post on X, formerly Twitter. Earlier this week, Maaßen and other politicians had set the course for the foundation of a new German political party, the WerteUnion (Values ...

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Hans-Georg Maaßen talked to the Hungarian weekly Mandiner about his impression of Viktor Orbán, Hungarian conservativism, and the war in Ukraine. 

The AfD is deliberately being built up as a fascist party to suppress opposition to war and social devastation, which no longer finds any expression in the official political establishment.

An anti-Semite is not someone protesting against the crimes of the government of Benjamin Netanyahu, who has struck an alliance with extreme right-wing parties, has one foot in jail and can only stay in power through endless provocations. An anti-Semite is someone who equates “the Jews” with the policies of the Israeli government.

In a world that seems to be divided between neoliberal orthodoxy and identitarian dogmas, it is possible to miss the waning presence of traditional social democracy. Born of the radical Left in Marx’s own time, social democrats worked, sometimes with remarkable success, to improve the living standards of working people by accommodating the virtues of capitalism. Today, that kind of social democracy—learned at home from my immigrant grandparents and from the late Michael Harrington, one time...

The Transformation of Germany (Credit Image: © Wolfgang Kumm/DPA via ZUMA Press) “The people are everyone who lives in this country.” — Chancellor Angela Merkel, February 2017 “We’ve been arguing for too long whether our country is a country of immigration. The fact is that immigration is taking place because we’ve asked people time and again to come. . . . And yet, simply recognizing that we are a country of immigration is not enough. Action has to be taken by the state, which has...