Germany’s political parties on the extreme left and extreme right of the political spectrum have announced a “hot autumn” with regular Monday demonstrations, starting on September 5. The socialist Left Party, the smallest opposition party in the Bundestag, called for the campaign, choosing Leipzig as the main location.
Leipzig, an internationally-renowned trade fair and university city in the east of the country, has a powerful symbolic resonance: This is where East Germans played a decisive role in toppling the dictatorship in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) with their Monday demonstrations in 1989.
