Germany: Repression against anti-fascists
antifa | 25.01.2010 17:58 | Repression
In the past week, the German police raided two places in Berlin and Dresden in search of posters for mobilisations against the world's biggest neonazi march in Dresden on February 13th with expectedly 7000 nazis from all over Europe. The prosecutors say appeals to block that march violate the law and are therefore illegal. All materials for the mobilisation they could find have been confiscated. Left politicians that pasted posters to protest against the police justice have been arrested. The mobilisation homepage dresden-nazifrei.de has been blocked which is in accordance with censorship in Iran and China.
It looks like Germany did not learn from history. In the shadow of democracy thousands of nazis may march on February 13th, which will be protected by more than 4000 police officers. The state of Saxony, which is ruled by a coalition of the conservative „Christian Democratic Union“ and the „Liberal Democratic Party“ made up a law who was to forbid both nazi and antifascist protests. While this law is likely to be rejected by the Constitutional Court and also contains vulnerabilitiesthat make it tough to use it to forbid the neonazi march, the state repression against the antifascist goes on. The State Institutions alienate law to their own purposes, most their action are likely to be declared illegal in hindsight.
Antifascist groups call upon all forces to come to Dresden in order to block the march. The bombing of Dresden 1945 was not an act of terrorism, but legitimate action in wartime, and may not be used for their purposes to spread hatred and their national-socialist ideology.
Talking is over – no place to hide for fascists, revisionists and nazis!
It looks like Germany did not learn from history. In the shadow of democracy thousands of nazis may march on February 13th, which will be protected by more than 4000 police officers. The state of Saxony, which is ruled by a coalition of the conservative „Christian Democratic Union“ and the „Liberal Democratic Party“ made up a law who was to forbid both nazi and antifascist protests. While this law is likely to be rejected by the Constitutional Court and also contains vulnerabilitiesthat make it tough to use it to forbid the neonazi march, the state repression against the antifascist goes on. The State Institutions alienate law to their own purposes, most their action are likely to be declared illegal in hindsight.
Antifascist groups call upon all forces to come to Dresden in order to block the march. The bombing of Dresden 1945 was not an act of terrorism, but legitimate action in wartime, and may not be used for their purposes to spread hatred and their national-socialist ideology.
Talking is over – no place to hide for fascists, revisionists and nazis!
antifa
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Not war
25.01.2010 18:50
The war was nearly over, Germany was beaten, there was no military justification for the bombing, killing mainly scores of thousands of civilians, including thousands of children.
I suggest you read up on the subject.
There is a school of thought that the bombing was to show the advancing armies of the USSR the power of the West.
Saying the killing of thousands of women and kids, was an okay thing to do, will not help the image of German anti fascists to even the most liberal thinking German.
Joe
I was with you all the way until....
25.01.2010 19:35
It stinks of naivety and ignorance and to sign it from antifa is not acceptable...
@narchist
Anti-deustch fuck off
25.01.2010 21:35
Anarchist Antifa
Antideutsch
25.01.2010 21:58
Anyway i don't want to distract from the action in hand, i hope it goes well and good luck to everyone involved
Owain
Controlled Opposition
25.01.2010 23:56
Smash the faschist system anyway you can!
Klamber
parallels with anarchist response to EDL in this country?
26.01.2010 09:27
It seems the German Antideutsch people may have more parallels with the UK anarchist movement that we care to admit.
The EDL claim to be opposing something that ostensibly we ourselves should also oppose (fundamentalist religion), just as the neo-nazis in Germany claim to be opposing war crimes and the deliberate bombing of civilians.
In both cases the far right are using a soft issue as the thin end of a wedge, which also helps to fragment and confuse their opposition.
anon
terror or liberation?
26.01.2010 10:40
The antifa movement does right in rejecting this statement as revisionism. it was the Nazi regime that brought terror and Holocaust to Europe.
Fact is also that without a massive war effort, especially from The Sovet Union, the US and the UK, but also the exiled government of France, Nazism would have suceeded in Europe. Condemning individual tactical decisions or violence on part of the allies in this war is like suggesting that war could ever be done in a non-violent and fair way. Total nonsense.
This doesn't mean we have to go round waving US or Soviet flags. But it means we have to tackle revisionism whereever we find it.
observer
errr.. minor tactical decision?
26.01.2010 15:47
At the same time allowing nazis to march under even best of reasons is unnaceptable. They should be stopped anytime and everywhere, doesn;t matter what their particular slogan of the day is. We can oppose nazis and still not fall into all this "antideutsche" bullshit trap.
anarchist historian
@ a.h.
27.01.2010 15:41
Suggest you read any anti-fa (including liberal ones) websites that mobilise towards Dresden (which is pretty much the complete anti-fascist and leftow-ng spectrum in East germany - and see how they dispell the myths.
anti-fascist historian