I want to condemn in the strongest terms possible the action of your bank to terminate the account of Mehring Verlag and the managing director’s private account.
This act of censorship is aimed at sabotaging Mehring
Verlag’s work and impeding the distribution of its books. No other reasonable explanation
can be found. Mehring Verlag and its predecessor have maintained an account
with Postbank, now fully integrated into Deutsche Bank, for 45 years without any
incidents.
As a recent statement on the World Socialist Website states,
the closure of the managing director’s private account, entirely unrelated to
the publishing house, constitutes personal harassment.
This is not the first time Deutsche Bank has targeted
left-wing organisations. The Maoist organisation, MLPD, had its accounts
terminated in 2009 and again in 2017. It was only by legal action of the MLPD
that the bank relented.
“The attack on Mehring Verlag reveals what the ruling class
in Germany fears most: the spread of ideas that threaten the foundations of its
tottering, rotten capitalist system—namely, the program of socialism. As the
great French writer Victor Hugo said 150 years ago: “One can resist the
invasion of armies; one cannot resist the invasion of ideas whose time has
come.”[1]
Only through a broad-based campaign in the working class can
this act of censorship be defeated. I urge all my readers to protest the
arbitrary termination of Mehring Verlag’s account.
[1]
In an act of political censorship, Deutsche Bank terminates publisher Mehring
Verlag’s account-https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/06/25/dmzc-j25.html
