Emerging Securities social media protests. Yet these relatively new social media forms are an inadvertent phenomenon of the 21st century and rather than pointing out the countless problems they bring with them, it is necessary to articulate solutions as to how they can be used sustainably in the struggle for human progress.
30 Years Since Alexander platz: Brexit and the Regression of Liberal Democracy By Mitra Karanjkar 2019 marks the thirty-year anniversary of the Alexanderplatz demonstration which led to the fall of the Berlin Wall. For 28 years, the Berlin Wall physically and ideologically separated West Berlin from East Berlin and East Germany. The Potsdam Agreement in 1945 gave East Germany to the Soviet Union, in which they set up a Communist government. Those protesting in the Alexanderplatz demonstration called for democracy, economic reform and freedom of movement. Today, a strong parallel can be identified with the People’s Vote protests against Brexit. Here, protesters are calling for a second referendum on British membership of the European Union (EU), as they believe politicians misled voters in the 2016 referendum; the promise of sunlit uplands made by ideologues in step with Nigel Farage could not be further removed from the dreary swamp currently paralysing Westminster. KCL Politics Society
19 Democracy, confronting economic disparity and allowing freedom of movement are key to the protesters’ ideology. The methods of Alexanderplatz have also been replicated on the streets of London. These protests, thirty years apart, both in support of liberal democracy, emphasise how this central Western concept is not as stable as is historically assumed. The ideology behind the People’s Vote protest very much mirrors that of the protestors at Alexanderplatz thirty years ago. Those who lived east of the Wall, in the German Democratic Republic, were denied democracy. According to Marianne Birthler, a lecturer who grew up in East Germany, the ruling party claimed the right to control people’s opinions, behaviour and decisions. The protest began on the 4th October 1989. Opposition groups met in an apartment and agreed upon a ‘Unified Declaration,’ in which they called for free elections with secret ballots monitored by the United Nations. Similarly, those who are calling for a People’s Vote do so with democracy at heart. Although many Brexiteers would suggest such activists are going against democracy
Brexit Secretary, said, the letter "asks them to honour our shared democratic values; it asks them not to turn away from us now and deny us the chance for a final say.”
Moreover, protesters at the Alexanderplatz demonstration demanded freedom of movement into West Germany. When the wall was constructed in August 1961, it tore apart friends relatives. Contact was “The promise of sunlit uplands and immediately severed. The aspect of made by ideologues in step up human demonstration has been with Nigel Farage could not be evident in Britain too; there are widespread further removed from the concerns that families will be separated if freedom of dreary swamp currently movement between paralysing Westminster.” Britain and the EU is eventually terminated. Although Boris Johnson and the will of the people, those has guaranteed the rights of EU asking for a second referendum citizens to remain in the UK, suggest the public were misled by The3million group, which lobbies for politicians and the media as to what the rights of EU nationals in the UK, leaving the EU would entail. says it isn’t clear how those who Protesters have honoured the values leave the UK temporarily will be of democracy; the People’s Vote affected, potentially leaving many EU organisers requested signatories for a nationals vulnerable to landlord and letter sent to Boris Johnson, EU employer discrimination. Overall, the leaders, MPs, and MEPs, asking them Berlin Wall hindered democratic to allow "the chance to check liberalism in a similar way to which whether we want to proceed with Brexit has and will continue to do so Brexit.” As Keir Starmer, Shadow well into the next decade.
