Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century
 
Revolutionary
Socialism in the
21st Century

Olaf Klenke

Photo: Daniel Antal, flickr

East Germany, 1989: when power was in the street

Within a few weeks in the autumn of 1989 a regime fell which had seemed invulnerable. While Reagan and Thatcher seek to take credit for these events, the truth is that millions of East German people took their destiny into their own hands.