In Graz, Austria, Communists Have Built a Red Fortress
In Graz, Austria’s second-largest city, Communists have ridden a wave of working-class discontent to become the main challenger to the ruling conservatives.
3 Article(s) by: Adam Baltner
Adam Baltner is a teacher and translator in Vienna, Austria. He is an editor at mosaik-blog.at.
The Queen’s Gambit Is a Merciless Takedown of Hollywood Anti-Communism
Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit shows a Cold War world far from the usual Hollywood tropes of freedom-loving Americans confronting evil Russian totalitarians. The villains in this piece aren’t our heroine’s Soviet chess rivals, but the middle-class tyrants of US suburbia.
Why Aufstehen Failed
After drawing a flurry of attention last fall, Sahra Wagenknecht’s Aufstehen movement has run out of steam. Yet its call for the German left to reconnect with working-class voters remains unanswered — and is the far right is taking advantage.