Victor Grossman

Victor Grossman is a journalist from the U.S. now living in Berlin. He fled his U.S. Army post in the 1950s in danger of reprisals for his left-wing activities at Harvard and in Buffalo, New York. He landed in the former German Democratic Republic (Socialist East Germany), studied journalism, founded a Paul Robeson Archive, and became a freelance journalist and author. His latest book, A Socialist Defector: From Harvard to Karl-Marx-Allee, is about his life in the German Democratic Republic from 1949 – 1990, the tremendous improvements for the people under socialism, the reasons for the fall of socialism, and the importance of today's struggles.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Victor Grossman

World

A hot weekend and a chilly G7 summit
June 9, 2015 By Victor Grossman
Top leaders of seven nations at the G7 Summit discuss "the global economy as well as... foreign, security and development policy."
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World

Germany: many strikes and a big scandal
May 28, 2015 By Victor Grossman
A locomotive engineers strike stopped freight cars and passenger traffic; meanwhile, Angela Davis visited Berlin and elsewhere in Germany.
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The Volkswagen chronicle: Porsche and Piëch
May 14, 2015 By Victor Grossman
The North German city with the very tourist-attractive name "Wolfsburg" boasts of two things, though both are second best.
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World

Drones, lies, and May Day in Germany
May 7, 2015 By Victor Grossman
"The entire drone war of the U.S. military would not be possible without Germany."
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In Germany: From the U.S. Embassy to small town thugs
April 15, 2015 By Victor Grossman
This was a minor victory; in over twenty years it was the first petition on Mumia which the embassy has accepted.
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World

Blockupy movement blossoms in Frankfurt
March 31, 2015 By Victor Grossman
Blockupy gathered disparate groups into a solid force, not only on the question of Greece but against the highway robbery tactics of the powerful private German banks.
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World

PEGIDA: Horrors and contradictions
February 5, 2015 By Victor Grossman
In Germany the ultra-right is building bases in towns and villages while the government fears any progress which threatens their austerity policy.
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Germany today: People challenging new right extremists
January 22, 2015 By Victor Grossman
Recent events here in Germany remind me of a playground see-saw, with constant ups and downs of one side and the other.
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