Gregor Gysi will kick off the first session of the new Bundestag when it convenes on Tuesday, March 25. The 77-year-old leftist is free to decide on the content and length of his speech.

for the Communist Party of Germany. Two more recent efforts to ban the neo-Nazi National Democratic Party (NPD) were unsuccessful. A ban on Young Alternative would have been far easier to implement ...

It is the offspring of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) – commonly referred to in English as the East German Communist Party – which ruled East Germany for seven decades. After the ...

Only one "bona fide" foreign delegate, from the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) had managed to attend; the other foreign delegates were mostly emigres who happened to be in Russia at the time and ...

A judge ruled that Germany's solidarity tax is still necessary to cope with the costs of reunification. Just 10% of the highest income earners are still subject to the tax, in addition to businesses ...

While the Nazis and their counterparts attacked a wide range of artists as “degenerate,” the Stasi worked with and supported entertainers and writers.

The coalition negotiations between the social democratic SPD and conservative right CDU/CSU are going surprisingly smoothly, ...

The radical left parties called for the formation of this Red Army. The uprising was directed—this is shown by the situation report of the Communist Party of Germany, Central Office, Secretariat ...