WORLD WORLDWIDE FRANCE GERMANY - news journal UPDATE - (en) France, UCL AL #346 - Anti-fascism, Germany: Bourgeoisie and far right hand in hand (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

In Germany, a press article has just revealed the links between the
right, the extreme right and the big bourgeoisie, in a project of
"remigration" of German citizens. A few months before regional and
European elections, will these revelations be enough to reverse the
political dynamic? ---- On January 10, the German investigative media
Correctiv revealed the presence of members close to the leadership of
the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, Germany's main far-right party,
alongside other neo-Nazi extremists at a meeting held in November in
Potsdam, near Berlin[1].

The Austrian Martin Sellner, a figure of the radical identity movement,
presented his expulsion project which could concern up to nearly 2
million people in North Africa, including foreigners and asylum seekers
but also German citizens. The brown international is in full swing:
Sellner, a neo-Nazi in his youth, is today close to the former
Identitarian Generation and the New Right, and is inspired by concepts
defended by Zemmour.

Sad memories
These revelations were particularly shocking, recalling in particular
the Nazi plan to expel 4 million Jews in Madagascar in 1940. They
triggered a wave of indignation in the country: more than 1.4 million
people have demonstrated since on January 19 throughout Germany[2].

In some cities, such as Munich, the demonstrations could not even start
because they were so massive. In addition to the demonstrations, many
political leaders from the right, social democrats and left, religious
representatives, and even coaches of the German football championship
have called for mobilization against the AfD. A plan to ban the party is
even being studied, based on the unconstitutionality of the party's
positions.

One of the most striking elements is the presence, in addition to
identitarians and self-confessed radicals, of members of the main
right-wing party (the CDU) and big bourgeois people. In Germany as
elsewhere, racism and fascism are the tools of the bourgeoisie and the
far right its best ally.

Despite this popular anti-fascist momentum, the polls remain very good
for the far-right party which is in second place in voting intentions in
regional partial elections behind the conservative party, and even in
first place in the former GDR, the poorest areas of the country where it
has established itself best.

Further proof that moral and reactionary anti-fascism is not enough to
reverse a trend. On the contrary, we must attack the roots of the
progression of the far right, in particular poverty, the crisis of
capitalism and the racist and anti-migrant discourses which have been
developing for years. This is the only way that a massive, anti-fascist
social movement can be built in the long term, in Germany as in France.

Hugo (UCL Montreuil)

To validate

[1]"In Germany, the far right is secretly planning the "remigration" of
millions of citizens", Mediapart, January 15, 2024.

[2]"In Germany, more than 1.4 million people have demonstrated against
the far-right AfD party since Friday, according to organizers", Le Monde
with AFP, January 21, 2024

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