On January 10th, the research network "Correctiv" published a report about a private meeting of Identitarians, AfD politicians, conservativesand entrepreneurs in November 2023.
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likely to be of interest to many who are already Those who have spentsome time studying the New Right, their ideology and their plans to takepower have come as no surprise. What was particularly new was howspecifically fascist ideologues are already discussing the racistexpulsion of millions of migrant people and how naturally high-rankingofficials from the AfD and the right-wing fringe of the CDU take part inthis discussion. The response from civil politics and the media was andis enormous. Politicians from as far away as the CDU and FDP warn of theright-wing danger, denounce the AfD and indulge in phrases aboutdefending democracy. Newspapers, talk shows and podcasts are full ofreports about the plans of the right and calls for energetic action frompoliticians and so-called civil society.And this actually mobilizes people onto the streets. Largedemonstrations are taking place in all major German cities these days.The numbers seem to increase with each new demonstration. In mostcities, the protest is organized by extremely broad alliances, rangingfrom parts of the radical left, to NGOs and DGB unions, to the civilparties and their youth organizations. The representatives of theseparties, whether they are called Olaf Scholz or Nancy Faeser,immediately applaud the democratic protest against the right. Theprotests are giving hundreds of thousands of people space to take theiranger and rejection of the AfD's rise, which has been going on foryears, and the shift to the right as a whole to the streets. It isempowering to see that there are so many others who will not silentlyaccept the emerging new fascism. Who do not accept that plans are beingmade in back rooms to forcibly evict themselves or their partners,friends, colleagues and neighbors. The signal that these demonstrationssend to the right as well as to parts of society that are stillundecided or are in immediate danger is important and it is thereforeright and good that we take to the streets together!But we must not deceive ourselves either: demonstrations are symbols ofresistance. They alone cannot stop the rise of the right. How often havewe seen that after right-wing terrorist attacks, attacks on asylum homesand hunts against migrant people, tens of thousands of people took tothe streets in a short space of time? And how quickly did the protestsand with them the outrage subside? Undeterred, the AfD's poll numberscontinued to rise. If we want to effectively combat the shift to theright, then we need a broad-based anti-fascist mass movement. This mustbe anchored in our workplaces, neighborhoods, schools and universities.It must be able to refute the content of the fascist slogans; to opposethe fascists with public protest wherever they dare to go out to meet,campaign or demonstrate; and, last but not least, to act militantlyagainst the infrastructure and personnel of the right. There is alreadya starting point for what would be necessary. Open anti-fascistmeetings, anti-fascist and anti-racist groups and alliances. What mustnow be done is to strengthen and broaden these approaches. Each of uscan contribute to this by joining the existing structures and supportingthem. In many places, an anti-fascist movement needs to be built almostfrom the ground up. Here, trade unions, district organizations, studentsyndicates and university groups are the right place to developanti-fascist work.As important as it is that we organize ourselves and start fightingtogether, it is equally important that we become aware of who ouropponents are. The right wing, of course, is the AfD and itsextra-parliamentary front line made up of think tanks, youth groups andlocal right-wing networks. This is still the old neo-Nazi scene, whichhas lost a lot of importance in recent years and is still dangerous. Butit is also - and there can be no doubt - the bourgeois parties and thegovernments that they form. The same government, whose officials speakwith much pathos against the AfD's deportation plans and applaud theanti-fascist protest, decided last week to massively tighten Germanasylum law with the cynically so-called "Repatriation Improvement Act".She is currently working in the EU to create mass camps at Europe'sexternal borders. It is constantly cutting social benefits, which isdriving masses of dissatisfied wage earners into the arms of the AfD.The same parties that now uphold anti-fascism have done everything theycan for years to criminalize the anti-fascist movement. There are peoplein this state's prisons because they didn't watch as fascists conqueredmore and more space. The traffic light, like the bourgeois governmentsbefore it, is responsible for the rise of the right and is alreadyimplementing its racist demands into practical politics today. Thecapitalism that it defends brings about fascism and makes it possible.An anti-fascist movement must resolutely oppose the AfD, the bourgeoisparties, the racist and anti-Semitic attitudes that are still widespreadamong the population, capitalism and the bourgeois state.It is therefore also questionable to place all hopes in the institutionsof this state by calling for a ban on the AfD. It currently doesn't lookas if the bourgeois parties can even agree on such an undertaking. Itwould also take years and, especially in the case of the AfD, legalsuccess is by no means certain. If the AfD is nevertheless banned, itsstructures, money and mandates will be lost - but the people and theirreactionary ideologies in the form of racism, anti-Semitism, sexism andqueer hostility, which made the rise of the AfD possible, are stillthere and it is It is not unlikely that a ban would even consolidate andradicalize them. A ban on the AfD would at most be a breathing spacebefore right-wing forces regroup to form a new party or choose otherstrategies. The signaling effect that such a procedure would have forthe bourgeois parties should not be neglected: state repression againstthe right usually hits progressive forces next. So instead of trustingthat the bourgeois state will save us from the right-wingers, we musttrust in our own strength. The anti-fascist mass movement remains themost effective means in the fight against fascists. So let's startbuilding it today. Shoulder to shoulder on the streets of our cities andsquares in our villages.Build the anti-fascist movement!Not an inch to the right!https://www.dieplattform.org/2024/01/26/ob-afd-oder-ampel-regierung-nur-von-unten-koennen-wir-den-rechtsruck-stoppen/#more-2859_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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