Matthew is a researcher engaged in political education, organising, and solidarity work in Berlin. At the Zetkin Forum for Social Research, he coordinates the research agenda of the Internationale Forschungsstelle DDR (IFDDR) and writes about socialist health care, anti-imperialist strategies, the planned economy, and state theory, among other topics. His research focuses on analysing the historical experiences of and scholarship from Eastern European socialist states and connecting these insights to contemporary struggles. He is also an editor of the Zetkin Forum’s publications and coordinates the European section of the International Union of Left Publishers (IULP).