German police is preparing for demonstrations
Wanneer: 14/08/2012 - 01:43
German newspapers are talking about police preparations against antifa/anarchist movement in the next weeks. There will be a big Antifa demonstration in Rostock on August 25 and the same evening troubles are expected in Hamburg.
A week later Antifa will stop a Nazi demonstration in Dortmund.
In Rostock will be a big Antifa Demonstration on August 25. This will be to remind the 20th anniversary of the fascist actionagainst migrants and refugees in 1992. The Antifa Demonstration will start at 14:00 at S-Bhf. Rostock Lütten Klein.
Twenty years ago in Lichtenhagen, a suburb of Rostock, the attacks of a racist mob against the central admissions office for asylum requests (ZAST) escalated to the biggest pogrom after the German reunification.
August 1992, Rostock Lichtenhagen
Several hundred people attacked the accommodation of asylum seekers over three days. To the cheers of thousands of residents, the part of the building used by vietnamese contract workers got set on fire. The police left the scene to the mob and arrested the participants of an antifascist demonstration instead of the perpetrators. The passing of the fire brigade got detained and an evacuation of the people in the building took place several hours after the fire was ignited.
Rostock-Lichtenhagen is the sad summit of a racistly charged atmosphere in the beginning of the nineties in Germany. 17 deaths, 435 partly seriuosly injured people and over 1900 violent attacks are recorded alone in the years between 1989 and 1992.
The mindset of the perpetrators and murderers found its political admittance in the restriction of the basic right to asylum through the CDU/CSU under the support of the SPD.
No end to the nazi-murders
The nineties brought a n unspeakably debate about the nazi-scene. Assumed ‘lost souls’ and ‘victims of reunification’ were stylised to a mainly east-german problem. While accepted youth work got highlighted as the solution, nationally liberated zones and nazi-dominated youth clubs were established. People who are not part of the right-wing world view and those not categorized as german were the main targets for violence. The
revelations of the racist murder series of the National Socialist Underground (NSU) with ten known victims show the excess of the development through the pogroms of the early nineties and the re-nationalisation of the german discourse: up until now, more than 180 people were murdered by neonazis.
European isolationist policies
The racist and restrictive asylum policies of the German Republic have shifted to the european borders due to the EU- enlargement. Since 2004, Europe gets defended against illegalised migrants by the specially for this task developed agency Frontex. The European external borders agency complements and extends the national controlling systems which aim at determent and criminalisation of migration movements. Over 16.000 people died since 1993 on the european borders.
Racism and other mechanisms of oppression can‘t shifted off to neonazis; rather, they are sourced by the so-called middle of society. We are part of a system which follows the logics of market and competition; social exclusion of marginalised groups is inherent in this and a well-known instrument of rule.
We pay back!
unrestricted right of residence for all! Solidarity with the concerned ones! Free Movement is everbodies right! No more deportation! Close all asylum prisons! Abolish all borders!
We want to live in a society without racism, fascism, sexism and other relations of domination. A society free from state and nation, without any borders, where people live together in solidarity.
Come and join us in Rostock on the 25th of August to remind of all the people affected by racist and neo-nazi violence and to stand up for a society of solidarity!
For sure police will make problems to this demonstration.
more information: http://www.lichtenhagen.net/
The street festival in the Hamburg Schanzenviertel at 25th August 2012 is going to take place under the banner of the protests, strikes and riots against social cuts in Greece. The festival will show solidarity and collect money to support anti-racist social movements and people enduring repression. A solidary financial contribution is expected by all shops and stalls at the Schanzenfest.
Everyone is invited to transform the Schanzenviertel’s streets into Syntagma Square. With this motto, we don’t aim at reproducing Athens riots or elevating them into an end in itself, but at protest and self-determined un-commercial partying against an EU policy which rates economic value added higher than people’s living conditions. For us, this means more than Ouzo and Tsatsiki, Rembetico and Greek punk: A political meeting beyond commercial culture connecting to political campaigns and anti-capitalist protests.
German mass media are agitating: „The Greeks“ are supposed to be lazy, living at our expenses and should acquire German virtues. In truth, the rich EU countries and Germany in particular are benefiting from this crisis because of high interest rates on loans awarded. Simultaneously, they themselves can borrow cheap money as a result of higher attractiveness and demand on the capital market due to high ratings.
Furthermore, Germany still owes money to Greece because of war crimes during National Socialism. A picture proclaiming Germany a victim of Greek circumstances denies historic responsibility, for instance for mass shootings and executions of the civilian population. To this day, victims have not been compensated and therefore been placed in lawlessness.
In our view, crises are indispensable consequences of the antagonisms of capitalism. Therefore, none of the usual strategies – neither neo-liberal belief in the market’s self-healing powers nor nationalist models propagating a strong state – are helpful to end or prevent them. Nor is crisis generating resistance and emancipatory movement automatically. There are always also reactionary responses to crisis situations; from “above” in terms of tightened repression as well as from “below” in the form of racism and xenophobia.
What’s taking place in Greece is a model project whose significance is exceeding national borders. Wages are cut by half, one of three companies isn’t paying any wages at all, in the education sector, basic needs like procuring books cannot be met, homelessness and poverty have been increasing massively. The attack of politics and the market is jeopardizing people’s living conditions. Simultaneously, protests and strikes are intensifying. Greece during the crisis is also a place on the verge of change, where people are organising, putting the question for society differently and working on the possibility of an other, better world.
We can mutually learn from our struggles: When struggles in Greece are targeting capitalism’s strictures which are being defined as natural laws or when a policy is attacked which is merely administering the crisis and promoting the rich becoming richer and the poor staying poor. We can relate to these struggles if we are claiming them as our own and creating a context with capitalist crisis-prone nature and our local conditions. For us, this doesn’t mean uncritically celebrating the Greek movement, but includes always also a view on breaks and contradictions.
We know from our practice of more than 20 years of quarter-focused political work that power relationships are not just running top-down, but criss-crossing and also crossing ourselves. Therefore, it’s even more important to position ourselves feisty and at the same time to challenge the circumstances, our own roles and ourselves. We will never be 99%. But in better days we are 1% resistance which is broadening, remains bulky and develops this kind of aliveness which has generated new realities from the unrealistic and non-thinkable in an eruptive way and is opening the view on an entirely different whole.
This can and will succeed only if we are prepared to see beyond our noses in order to take a critical and solidary perspective. In our quarters, in our resistance against gentrification, in our protests against the world’s crises or in our parties in all those streets and squares whose names are more and more becoming places and synonyms of uprising against the cold sobriety of capitalist normalcy. With an impressive collection of financial contributions, culture and information on Greece, this can also serve to break up the normalcy of the ever more expanding and commercialising Schanzenfest and to connect our struggles with those in Greece and others worldwide.
From crisis to global resistance!
Against economy’s strictures and dictates!
Abolish capitalism!
In Dortmund will be the big anual Nazi Demonstration on September 1.
The days before people meet at antifa camp
Nazis are very strong in Dortmund, this will be a dangerous day!
Join us in action!
25. August – Rostock
25. August – Hamburg
1. September – Dortmund
What’s taking place in Greece is a model project whose significance is exceeding national borders. Wages are cut by half, one of three companies isn’t paying any wages at all, in the education sector, basic needs like procuring books cannot be met, homelessness and poverty have been increasing massively. The attack of politics and the market is jeopardizing people’s living conditions. Simultaneously, protests and strikes are intensifying. Greece during the crisis is also a place on the verge of change, where people are organising, putting the question for society differently and working on the possibility of an other, better world.
We can mutually learn from our struggles: When struggles in Greece are targeting capitalism’s strictures which are being defined as natural laws or when a policy is attacked which is merely administering the crisis and promoting the rich becoming richer and the poor staying poor. We can relate to these struggles if we are claiming them as our own and creating a context with capitalist crisis-prone nature and our local conditions. For us, this doesn’t mean uncritically celebrating the Greek movement, but includes always also a view on breaks and contradictions.
We know from our practice of more than 20 years of quarter-focused political work that power relationships are not just running top-down, but criss-crossing and also crossing ourselves. Therefore, it’s even more important to position ourselves feisty and at the same time to challenge the circumstances, our own roles and ourselves. We will never be 99%. But in better days we are 1% resistance which is broadening, remains bulky and develops this kind of aliveness which has generated new realities from the unrealistic and non-thinkable in an eruptive way and is opening the view on an entirely different whole.
This can and will succeed only if we are prepared to see beyond our noses in order to take a critical and solidary perspective. In our quarters, in our resistance against gentrification, in our protests against the world’s crises or in our parties in all those streets and squares whose names are more and more becoming places and synonyms of uprising against the cold sobriety of capitalist normalcy. With an impressive collection of financial contributions, culture and information on Greece, this can also serve to break up the normalcy of the ever more expanding and commercialising Schanzenfest and to connect our struggles with those in Greece and others worldwide.
From crisis to global resistance!
Against economy’s strictures and dictates!
Abolish capitalism!
In Dortmund will be the big anual Nazi Demonstration on September 1.
The days before people meet at antifa camp
Nazis are very strong in Dortmund, this will be a dangerous day!
There will be riots for sure, see this nazi video from last year, Antifa smashing police car:
Join us in action!
25. August – Rostock
25. August – Hamburg
1. September – Dortmund