Speech by Heiko Khoo at the North European Winter School in Berlin held in January 2009 on the Fall of the Berlin wall and the East German revolution. Heiko worked as an underground revolutionary activist in East Berlin before the Wall Fell, established the Marxist tendency in East Germany in 1989 and was editor of their newspaper Was Tun! He is currently preparing a thesis on Marxist analysis of Chinese political economy and the reasons why the planned economies of Eastern Europe and the USSR failed to survive the Fall of the Wall.   

The speech last about 1hr and is followed by a 1hr discussion and debate with fellow Marxists from all over Europe. 

 http://www.archive.org/download/FallOfBerlinWall/HeikoOnFallOfBerlinWall.mp3

This programme is a special documentary show on the East German Revolution of 1989 which led to the fall of the wall. Special attention is paid to the events of October and the mass demonstration of November 4th 1989 that transformed society and posed a democratic socialist solution to the societal crisis.

http://www.archive.org/download/SpeakersCornerShows2009/6nov2009speakerscorner.mp3

The revolutions of 1989 began on 15th April 1989 on Tiananmen Square, a movement erupted against corruption and privileges which engulfed most urban centres in China. On June 4th the Beijing protests were defeated by a determined military clampdown. What was the reason for the defeat of the protests by the state in China? Why were similar protests able to defeat the state in Eastern Europe?

Heiko Khoo an eyewitness in China and Berlin in 1989 gives his take to an audience at London's Speakers Corner including people from Poland, Romania and China. 

Meeting held in Speakers' Corner Hyde Park 17th May 2009

http://www.archive.org/download/19May2009/speakers190509.mp3