Author: Christoph Fringeli

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Obituary: Michel Roger aka Olivier – Historian and Activist of the Communist Left

Michel Roger, (born March 5, 1948), also known as Michel Olivier, historian of the left communist movement and militant in several organisations of the communist left since the late 60s, died July 3, 2024; with his books researching and detailing unknown aspects of the history of the communist left he made essential contributions to the history of the movement.

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Far-right Compact Magazine Banned

Today, the interior minister of Germany banned the far-right Compact Magazine in an unusual step.
Edited by former leftist Jürgen Elsässer and employing a clever multi-media strategy, it had become the most popular of an array of far-right publications seeking an “overthrow of the regime”.

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Nomex & Adverse Discography

Updated version of the Nomex and Adverse Records discography originally from the Almanac for Noise & Politics Volume Two (2016). It includes Nomex’s releases on his own Adverse label, partially based on the now-defunct Adverse website, the Maschinenbau 7″s, the releases on Praxis and other essential noise and concept-core.

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Datacide 19 Record Reviews by Christoph Fringeli

Record reviews by Christoph Fringeli from Datacide 19 feat. new releases on vinyl by GRMMSK, Gwakaï, The DJ Producer, Scorn, HFK, KK Null/Dot Product, R-Zac, Taciturne, C Mantle as well as compilations from Stirpe999 and Sozialistischer Plattenbau.

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Revolution and Counterrevolution in Germany 1919

In January 1919 two important figures of the early German communist movement were murdered in Berlin: Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht. This was in the middle of an attempt to turn the revolution that had forced the Kaiser to abdicate in November, 1918 into a fully socialist one. This attempt, often called the Spartacist Uprising, was defeated, as were other attempts in other parts of Germany to set up council republics and workers’ democracy.

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