We’re All Staying!
The example of Hamburg shows how antiracist protests against European asylum policies can link up with local struggles like the fight around skyrocketing rents and the right to the city.
Germany
And the End Result Is Hanau
No passport, no job title, no class position, no achievement will protect us from constantly being seen as outsiders, as those who do not belong. I don’t have to frequent hookah bars to understand the message of the Hanau terrorist and those who stoked his hatred.
Any Place For Me
“We thought there was much more respect for human rights in Europe, before leaving home. But considering what happened to us on the way, we are very, very disappointed.”
Listen: A Saudi Asylum-Seeker in Germany Lifts Her Voice
I gave them everything I had, my identity, my story, my passport. When you leave your country, you don’t collect proof of what is happening, you just leave. I really thought I would be accepted, however they rejected my case. I was shocked. Now I have no hope. I never lied. I thought they would be rational.
“Violence” at Blockupy: Enough with the Hypocrisy!
Some background on Blockupy ECB, which grew out of the global Occupy movement and has learned and grown in the face of violent state repression—where nearly every other Occupy site faltered.
What Form Should Our Antifascism Take?
Antifascism as a purely reactive, defensive strategy will not win us any new oppositional territory, as recent years have shown. Without a politics of class and without a real-existing infrastructure, Antifa remains a kind of ineffectual fire department that keeps falling back on the mere defense of bourgeois society.
RSB Statement on Torture of Refugees in North Rhein-Westphalia
As long as there are these camps, and people are not regarded as people, these kinds of crimes will continue to be committed.
«Wir bleiben alle!»
Das Hamburger Beispiel zeigt, wie sich antirassistische Proteste gegen die europäische Flüchtlingspolitik mit lokalen sozialen Konflikten wie den Auseinandersetzung um steigende Mieten und um ein Recht auf Stadt verbinden können.