After a call from the German police union, Boris Pistorius
of the social-democrat SPD, and minister of the interior of the German state of Niedersachsen, is attempting to ban Antifascist organisations.
We join our German friends in their condemnation of this ridiculous attempt at criminalising grass-roots community self-defense against Neonazism, racism and bigotry:
Antifascism cannot be banned!
Declaration against the planned ban on anti-fascist groups in Lower Saxony.On Friday, January 15, 2021, we learned that Boris Pistorius, as Lower Saxony’s interior minister, wants to research a ban on anti-fascist groups. Boris Pistorius is reacting to the “Bund deutscher Kriminalbeamter”, which calls for a ban on “ANTIFA” in Trumpian fashion.
Unproven claims and misconceptions about alleged organizational structures are once again turning reality upside down:
in the past few years, terrifying examples of racist and anti-Semitic assassinations and murders have come to light in Germany. The NSU’s series of murders only ended in November 2011 with the self-exposure of the core trio . On October 9, 2019, a racist murdered people at a synagogue and a kebab shop in Halle . And on February 19, 2020, a man murdered ten people in Hanau, also for racist and fascist motives. The stabbing of mayor Henriette Reker in Cologne and the murder of politician Walter Lübcke in Kassel also had racist backgrounds. Both had campaigned for the accommodation of refugees. In the headlines, the image of individual perpetrators is often used. Little is reported about support networks and hardly any reports about the social reasons for racism and ideology of inequality.
News about the right-wing and fascist networks within the German justice system, police departments and military are also played down as isolated cases. Furthermore; nothing was done against the AfD when it pushed the limits of what can be said beyond the limits of humanity.
The survivors of the Buchenwald concentration camp swore when the camp was liberated on April 19, 1945:
“The destruction of Nazism and its roots is our watchword. The building of a new world of peace and freedom is our goal.“
They already knew that not only German fascism had to be defeated, but another world had to be fought for. Would the survivors of the Buchenwald concentration camp also be “left-wing extremists” today?
Anyone who equates left and right, as in the horseshoe model, does not defend democracy, but defames and fights against those who fight for a society of solidarity, in which all people can be themselves, together without fear.
In fact, in these times the promotion of and participation in Antifa is more important than ever! A strong civil society is needed that is proudly anti-fascist and that resolutely opposes right-wing ideologies. The work of anti-fascist activists, whose research makes a significant contribution to clearing up right-wing attacks and uncovering right-wing networks
is needed now more than ever. Therefore loud protests are needed when attempts are made to deligitimate and criminalize anti-fascism!We stand together in solidarity and demand: No ban on anti-fascist groups in Lower Saxony!
#WirsindalleAntifa
Wir sind alle Antifa! We are all antifascists!
After a call from the German police union, Boris Pistorius
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