It’s been absolutely ages since I posted on here and so, to prove that I ain’t died, here’s another look into some of the weirdness of the German left. First though I would like to point out that there are completely non-weird sections of the German left and that, from what I can tell Rote Hilfe is generally in the non-weird camp. Just look at stuff that groups like the FAU are up to, especially their support of migrant labour earlier this summer, and you’ll see that they aren’t all bonkers. Not by any means.

However! Not at all bonkers stuff is less fun to write about. So here are a couple of letters from the latest issue of the Rote Hilfe Zeitung. The Rote Hilfe is an organisation something akin to the Anarchist Black Cross in the UK. An organisation that exists to support people facing repression and imprisonment at the hands of the state. Especially people arrested for political activities. Good stuff.