The PSG and the IYSSE unequivocally support the Humboldt University students who publish the blog “Münkler-Watch”
and have become the targets of a massive intimidation campaign.
We defend their right to criticize the lectures of political scientist Herfried Münkler.
What is at stake is not merely a conflict with a professor at Humboldt University in Berlin.
What is at stake is the defense of freedom of expression.
The state-supervised conformism—which in the Nazi period went under the name of Gleichschaltung—must be prevented
at Humboldt and other universities. They must not be transformed from academic and research institutions
into tools of state war propaganda.
The attacks on “Münkler-Watch” are a continuation and escalation of the attacks on the IYSSE,
which has been denounced by the university administration
and the media for criticizing the historian on Eastern Europe, Jörg Baberowski.
Münkler made this connection himself, telling representatives of the press that he suspected
that a group of young Trotskyists who had attacked Baberowski last year were behind the blog.
Statement
Prevent state-supervised conformism at Humboldt University! Defend “Münkler-Watch”!
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/05/19/humb-m19.html
The PSG and the IYSSE unequivocally support the Humboldt University students who publish the blog “Münkler-Watch”
and have become the targets of a massive intimidation campaign.
We defend their right to criticize the lectures of political scientist Herfried Münkler.
What is at stake is not merely a conflict with a professor at Humboldt University in Berlin.
What is at stake is the defense of freedom of expression.
The state-supervised conformism—which in the Nazi period went under the name of Gleichschaltung—must be prevented
at Humboldt and other universities. They must not be transformed from academic and research institutions
into tools of state war propaganda.
The attacks on “Münkler-Watch” are a continuation and escalation of the attacks on the IYSSE,
which has been denounced by the university administration
and the media for criticizing the historian on Eastern Europe, Jörg Baberowski.
Münkler made this connection himself, telling representatives of the press that he suspected
that a group of young Trotskyists who had attacked Baberowski last year were behind the blog.