With the second anniversary of the gilets jaunes (GJ) uprising approaching, I virtually sat down with some participants to look back at a revolution that could have happened, the violent response of the police and the increasing restriction of civil liberties in France. I virtually sat down to talk to a group of young activists from Montreuil (Paris suburb) who joined in the early hours of the movement, witnessing the moment when the regime … [Read more...]
It’s all a matter of attitude
A political commentary. 2020 has hit us hard. At the beginning of the year the world was not in order, but hardly anybody expected a worldwide pandemic and in the consequence an economic-political crisis. There can be no "back to normality". How could there be? Fast-moving capitalism is constantly reinventing itself, even or especially during the pandemic. At a very high price: the profound splits at the national and global level have come to an … [Read more...]
This fire was set by Europe. End Moria now. Fight Fortress Europe.
A Beyond Europe call to keep up the pressure and fight for solidarity. … [Read more...]
Climate justice or brawl!
"Marx said that revolutions are the locomotive of world history. But perhaps things are very different. It may be that revolutions are the act by which the human race traveling in the train applies the emergency brake." (Walter Benjamin) The world is in flames and they continue to play with fire. Every day they dig up coal and burn it in their power plants, even though they know that this is the biggest source of CO2. Even though they know … [Read more...]
THIS FIRE WAS SET BY EUROPE
Last night the desperation at Camp Moria on lesbos was discharged into a huge fire! The unbearable situation in the refugee camp on the Greek island Lesbos completely escalated last night. In protest against the continuing poor care, the danger of Covid 19 and the prospect of Moria being turned into a closed camp by the erection of a fence, some camp residents decided to burn down large parts of the camp. Facilities of NGOs … [Read more...]
What’s behind the attacks of the “Grey Wolves” in Vienna
After a Kurdish feminist rally in Vienna-Favoriten was attacked by Turkish fascists on Wednesday, hundreds of anti-fascists took to the streets against this attack on the following day. After yesterday's demonstration the fascists escalated the situation again and attacked the EKH, an occupied house in Vienna, with a mob of about 200 to 300 people. Stones, bottles and incendiary devices flew on the squatted house, which is shared by left-wing … [Read more...]
“The Revolution has been televised”
...a call for participation in the current movement Translation of an article by Antifa AK Cologne “When you talk about a revolution, most people think violence, without realizing that the real content of any kind of revolutionary thrust lies in the principles, in the goal that you’re striving for, not in the way you reach them.” –Angela Davis 3 weeks ago, the African-American George Floyd was brutally murdered by police officers. Since … [Read more...]
Justice for George Floyd – fight the racist state, its cops and white supremacy!
Solidarity statement from antiauthoritarians in Germany and Austria After a white cop in Minneapolis, Minnesota suffocated the Afro-American George Floyd under the eyes of three of his colleagues, half the country is on fire. It was not the first racist murder by the US police, it was not even the first one this year and not the last since. It was just one too many. The night after George's murder, protests broke out in all kinds of cities … [Read more...]