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Grete Groh-Kummerlöw
(1909–1980) // Born into a working-class family, Grete was a textile workers’ union activist and member of the Communist Party (KPD). She won a seat for her party in the regional parliament of Saxony in 1930 at age 21, making her the youngest member of

Nosso dossiê “O despertar da Revolução dos Cravos: Libertação Nacional e Solidariedade Socialista em África” já está disponível também em Português. Confira e compartilhe um pouco dessa experiência revolucionária à luz de um olhar internacionalista!
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The West German press liked to portray DDR military aid for national liberation movements in Africa as aggressive & expansionist. Yet, in our latest dossier, Mascha Neumann shows that the decision to provide “non-civilian aid” was in fact only taken after cautious consideration👇

'In Guinea-Bissau, many of us died from Portuguese napalm, but every time we repulsed the colonial army, it was also a victory for you in the North.
Through our daily fight in the South, we in fact support your fight. Unfortunately, this understanding has largely been lost today'

Last year, we interviewed a member of the African Independence Party of Guinea-Bissau & Cape Verde (PAIGC) whose contribution to the struggle against Portuguese colonialism took the form of educational training in the socialist DDR:
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How did national liberation movements and socialist solidarity in Africa help bring down the fascist regime in #Portugal ? Mascha Neumann explored this question in our latest dossier to mark the 50th anniversary of the #CarnationRevolution :
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John Green was working as a foreign correspondent for DDR television when he was dispatched to #Portugal in 1974 to cover the unfolding #CarnationRevolution . Here he recounts his experiences and how the West intervened to prevent a social revolution:
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NEW RELEASE: To mark the 50th anniversary of the 1974 Carnation Revolution, our latest dossier explores how national liberation movements in Africa and the support they received from the socialist states contributed to the collapse of fascism in #Portugal .
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Herta Kuhrig
(1930–2020) // Herta was a member of the government advisory body Women in Socialist Society and was the scientific secretary of the Humboldt University Scientific Council for Sociological Research.

Helga E. Hörz
(1935–) // Helga is a Marxist philosopher and women’s rights activist. She joined the SED in 1952 and became an ethics professor at Humboldt University in East Berlin. She studied women’s emancipation in the DDR from a philosophical and psychological point of