Wolfgang devoted over 50 years of his life to building the Trotskyist party and fought tirelessly politically and theoretically for the independence of the working class.
Wolfgang Weber speaks at the SGP event “Stop the massacre in Gaza” in Berlin on November 14, 2023.
In November 2023, at an event organized by the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party in Germany) against the massacre in Gaza, Wolfgang answered questions from young Palestinians who wanted to know why it was necessary to build a party.
President of Germany’s Kiel Institute proposes financing war rearmament using the Nazi model
As well as massive cuts in social programmes, the president of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy is proposing an annual special fund of €150 billion for the military, financed through credit. Just as under the Nazis, such massive credits can only be repaid through the booty of imperialist wars of conquest.
Leading German historian Hermann Weber dies
The World Socialist Web Site is reposting an interview it conducted with the noted German historian Hermann Weber in November of 2011.
Stop the warmongers! Defend Günter Grass!
The campaign of defamation against one of the world’s best known writers, a recipient of the Nobel Prize for literature and many other awards, makes clear that the German ruling class and its counterparts in Washington and Tel Aviv are intent on intimidating and silencing anyone who dares criticise the preparations for war against Iran.
“The October Revolution was the most important event of the 20th century”
Russian historian Alexander Rabinowitch will be giving a lecture in Vienna on June 6. The WSWS spoke to the professor on his book, The Bolsheviks in Power, and the main themes of his research.
Was the GDR an alternative to capitalism? Did socialism prevail there, as the SED claimed in the past? The author proves that the roots and traditions of the GDR state lie in the suppression of the Marxist movement by Stalinism and shows its programmatic basis in nationalism.
This book traces the historical and social origins, the international context and the unfolding of the struggle of the Polish working class in 1980-81.