May 1st is coming closer, so it’s time to make plans. This is just one possibility of many to have a good start into our global day of struggle: Since months supposed squatters of the Breite Straße in Hamburg are on trial for defending their house during the Suatting Days back in 2014. The accusation of these comrades is attempted manslaughter and other silly stuff. This is just one of tons of good reasons to take the streets and make a stand for a city for all full of broad solidarity and without repression and racism. So be there!
Saturday / April 30th / 6pm / Schanzenstraße / Hamburg
Antifascists from Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein have a lot to do this weekend:
On Friday comrades of the Antifa Enternasyonal-Café invite to the legendary Rote Flora to inform and discuss about the Antifaşist Gençlik, which was founded by migrants in several German cities in the 80s to protect themselves against fascists.
On the morrow a broad alliance of German and Kurdish leftist call for a big demonstration against the Turkish war in Kurdistan, the criminalization of left-wing and progressive groups in Turkey and the cooperation of the German government with the dictatorial regime of president Erdogan.
The demo starts at 2pm at the Hachmannplatz/ Central Station in Hamburg.
And on Sunday it`s time to block the Nazis in hicksville Neumünster again. For the third time in three months the racist scum of „Neumünster wehrt sich“ tries to spread their baiting against refugees and leftists. Antifascist groups mobilize to impede the event of the Nazis by any means necessary. There are antifascist arrivals by train from Kiel (11.40am meeting at the station), Hamburg (11am meeting at the central station) and Flensburg (9.30am meeting at the station). They shall not pass!
26.02. | Antifa-Enternasyonal Café | 7pm | Rote Flora | Hamburg
27.02. | Demonstration against the Turkish war in Kurdistan | 27.02. | 2pm | Hachmannplatz/ Central Station | Hamburg
28.02. | Antifa-Action against the Nazi march of „Neumünster wehrt sich“ | 1pm | Großflecken | Neumünster
Some of us will hang out with a stand at the Rosa-Luxemburg-Konferenz 2016 in Berlin this saturday and hope to meet a lot of you comrades in the antifascist block at the annual Luxemburg-Liebknecht demonstration on sunday (10am / U Frankfurter Tor / Friedrichshain).
Remember Rosa & Karl: Struggle in solidarity – antifascist, antiracist, internationalist, anticapitalist!
Today another year goes by and it probably has been the most turbulent since years: Starting quite promising with the victory of Kobanê and the greek rebellion against the European austerity regime, as well as with a massive riot also in the heart of the capitalist beast in Frankfurt, and later: the temporary fall of the European borders and spontaneous acts of solidarity in many places, we now – only a few months later – have to make up the balance that things just got worse everywhere: Burning refugee accommodations all over Germany every day, racist mass mobilisations and shift to the right in swaths of Europe, the gradually mutilation of the right of asylum, the training of World War III in Syria, state terror against the progressive and Kurdish movements in Turkey, antifascist comrades in prison and the realisation that our promise, that capitalism, racism and patriarchy are ruining the living together of mankind is probably more true and more up-to-date than we‘ve hoped. It’s obvious that 2016 will be a hard year for everyone who believes in solidarity, equality, freedom and justice as the fundament of human social order. We‘ll have to struggle hard to defend our ideas and achievements.
On the other hand we – spoken as Fire and Flames Collective – also in 2015 again met and worked together with so many great friends and comrades from everwhere who‘ve shown us the beautiful face of this world. It’s everyone of you who still makes us believe that there must be a better way by living it every day. Thanks to everyone who’s part of and supports this wonderful network of comrades we used to call Antifascist Counterculture Worlwide sometime during the year, from Moscow to Marseille, from Prague to Montreal, from Babelsberg to Paris, from Limbach to Copenhagen, from Kiel to Manchester, from Grenoble to Hamburg, in between and beyond… We are honoured to be part of it – you are our strength and you know who you are.
So we hope you‘ll have a great New Years Eve, whether you are keeping up the fight somewhere, just having a drink with your friends or you don‘t give a fuck about that date anyway. And we‘re looking forward to join our Kiel crowd at Alte Meierei tonight for a last order in 2015.
See you next year: On the barricades, in the bars, on the terraces, in the libraries, at the meetings, at the gigs of this planet – let’s fight for a revolutionary 2016!
