The strike by train drivers in Germany must become the launchpad for a broad mobilisation of the entire working class. A mass movement against the shift to the right by all the establishment parties, social cuts and war, and growing resistance among workers, shows there is a strong basis for this.
On Sunday, January 21, the Young Guard of Bolshevik Leninists, a Trotskyist youth organization in the former Soviet Union, held an event to commemorate the centenary since the death of Lenin at the age of 53.
The mass protests against the fascist Alternative for Germany (AfD) are part of an international movement against the right-wing politics of the ruling class and show the enormous opposition to anti-refugee propaganda, war and inequality. It is important to develop this into a conscious movement of the working class against the government and capitalism.
The demonstrations show the depth of opposition to the return of fascism and war, but organizers are seeking to subordinate the movement to the government and parliamentary parties who are responsible for the official turn to the right.