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Christoph Fringeli October 29, 2025October 31, 2025 0 Comments 2025, antifa, Far Right, fascism, Germany, Media, repression

Compact Magazine Wins in Court – Ban Lifted

Compact is a far right magazine which appears in print on a monthly basis since 2010. They also produce daily online and video content. By summer 2024 Compact was the far right medium with the largest reach in Germany. It was founded and is edited by former leftist activist and journalist Jürgen Elsässer. In June 2024 the Interior Minister took the unusual step to ban the media organisation. A year later the highest court has decided to lift the ban.

Datacide is a magazine that covers experimental electronic music, from the avantgarde to hard dance music, its intersections with radical politics and counterculture, in-depth political and historical analysis and critique as well as experimental fiction, poetry and visual works. In each issue there is an extensive record review section as well as detailed book reviews, comics and news items.Datacide is not affiliated with or part of any specific political group but engages in a revolutionary critique that rejects the historically discredited strains of leftism associated with Social Democracy and Leninism, drawing instead on the rich heritage of dissident Marxism, libertarian communism and critical theory.Datacide is a critical voice in the increasingly irrational and rightward lurching 'posttruth' times of conspiratorial world views and identity politics.