Joint speech by the libertarian communists Osnabrück (LIKOS) and No
Lager at the demonstration "Osnabrück needs SubstAnZ" on February 24th,2024. ---- Hi, we are from No Lager and Likos and are one of the groupsthat organize themselves in substance. And it's been that way for quitea while. For the people who don't know us that well: No Lager, meaningus and many others, is a local, anti-racist association. We areorganizing together against the racist present in Germany, Europe andbeyond. That means against deportations, camp accommodation, racist lawslike the Dublin Regulation, against exclusion and exploitation. To standup for each other, we use visible and invisible forms of protest andresistance. In our work we base our work on the problems we experiencein everyday life. We classify these experiences politically and defendourselves against them.At our meetings, people come together in very different situations andwith very different backgrounds. We meet every Thursday for this in thesubstance. Sometimes it starts in the afternoon to plan thedemo/information stand/campaign, exchange skills or paint new bannersbefore the big plenary session. From 6 p.m. we invite you to our openanti-deportation café every week. Everyone is invited to discussproblems, support each other, develop strategies, receive legal andemotional support and find solutions. The other part of the group enjoysthe formidable, always fresh vegan Thursday menu that our friends fromthe Küfa group conjured up.[Cheers!]At 7 p.m. sharp[wink]we plop down onthe sofas in the large plenary room. And then there is plenary. We talkabout upcoming events and actions, exchange ideas about the latest news,argue, discuss, get angry at all the shit that's happening, that's beingpassed, decided, pushed through and ignored, mad at the state, the copsand the deportation authorities, and sometimes we feel powerless these,rebuild ourselves, drink tea and fool around. At the end of the eveningthere is beer or spritzer down in the pub and of course we unload andload the dishwasher.The substance is also open to us on all the other days: We meet again inthese and those groups, we organize or attend lectures, workshops orcelebrate wild parties in order to top up our solidarity fund (eitherwith or without karaoke). You can see - hopefully we conveyed thisbelievably - we feel right at home in SubstAnZ. It should stay that wayand we would like to continue to invite people to this place. We want tocontinue to organize ourselves here together, get to know each other,help each other and network. We want to continue to do politics from thebottom left in these spaces. We want to experience many more parties,events, readings, workshops, short and long meetings and meals here. Wewon't let our substance be taken away from us! We want to stay and wewill stay!!! And certainly the people of Likos too.Hello, we are the Libertarian Communists Osnabrück (Likos) and we alsoneed the SubstAnZ. We have been around for eight years now - it isdoubtful that we would have been around for that long without SubstAnZ,because without left-wing spaces it is hardly possible to get aleft-wing organization off the ground. Our political work is both theoryand practice and both depend on the SubstAnZ existing.We are convinced that it is important for left-wing politics to explainwhat you want to change and abolish socially, why society is the way itis and what a different society could look like. In our case, forexample, this means a materialistic, anti-authoritarian approach toissues such as racism, sexism and anti-Semitism. We would like toemphasize that, in addition to practice, continuous theoretical workalso needs collective spaces. You can read a book alone, but explainingand discussing the content together, supporting each other inunderstanding, can only be done together.Fighting against making a false peace with social conditions is muchmore pleasant and thoughtful when people come together for this purposeinstead of isolating themselves in their political filter bubbles.Educational events in the form of lectures, workshops, etc. that dealwith uncomfortable topics and do not exclude people per se areunthinkable without spaces like SubstAnZ. Neither an online lecture nora lecture at the university can replace that. The time of the coronapandemic has made this more than clear. At political lectures, atparties, at bars, in fact everything is always about us on the leftcoming together, arguing, being a corrective to each other.And for our practice? Of course we need space for this. Without SubstAnZthere is no place to plan demonstrations, no place to paint banners, nostorage space, no place to do solidarity work, discuss flyers together,etc. Or to give current concrete examples: We are currently part of theanti-fascist participation campaign " "Taking away space from theright." This has been making life difficult for the AfD in Osnabrück forover six months. They have lost their place to meet and no standLucharcontra una falsa paz with las condiciones sociales es mucho másplacentero y reflexivo cuando las personas se reúnen con este propósitoen lugar de aislarse en sus burbujas de filtro politico. Los eventoseducativos en forma de conferences, talleres, etc. que aborden temasincómodos y no excluyan a las personas per se son impensables sinespacios como SubstAnZ. There is no conference on the line or there is aconference at the University of Pueden reemplazar eso. The era of thepandemic of coronavirus is more clear. In the conferences of politics,in the fiestas, in the cash, in the hecho, they are involved in thenosotros, the events, no reunification, discussion, no corrijamos andother people.¿Y para nuestra práctica? Por supuesto que necesitamos space para esto.Sin SubstAnZ, no hay lugar para planificar manifestaciones, ni lugarpara pintar pancartas, ni space para guardar cosas, ni lugar para hacertrabajo solidario, discuss folletos juntos, etc. O, por poner ejemplosconcretes actuales: actualmente somos parte del grupo antifascista.Campaña de participation "Quitándole espacio a la derecha". It has beenseveral months since the life of the AfD in Osnabrück is difficult.Perdieron su lugar de reunion y ningún stood in the center of the cityquedó sin a contraprotesta. The final result is on the street with morethan 2,000 people at 27 de enero bajo elma "Todos juntos contra elfascismo". A campaña como ésta es impensable sin SubstAnZ. In concreteterms, it is significant that the anti-fascist movement and the luchaagainst the AfD have been debilitated in Osnabrück and SubstAnZ does notexist, and this is a moment in which the past is included in the finalmoments of the race Alemania is a problem!The extra parliamentary group in particular, ya sea No camp, nosotros,el movement climático or las campañas de Antifa, ¡necesita espacios deizquierda! Los necesitamos como infraestructura elemental. Y nodejaremos que nos los quiten. Salgamos juntos a las calles en losproximos meses.¡La sustancia permanece! in the city center remained withoutcounter-protest. We were last on the streets with over 2,000 people onJanuary 27th under the motto "All together against fascism". A campaignlike this is unthinkable without SubstAnZ. In concrete terms, this meansanti-fascist work and the fight against the AfD will be weakened inOsnabrück if there is no SubstAnZ - and this at a time when it seemsthat even the last few people have realized that the shift to the rightin Germany is a problem!The extra-parliamentary left in particular, whether No Lager, us, theclimate movement or Antifa campaigns, need left-wing spaces! We needthem as elementary infrastructure. And we won't let them be taken awayfrom us. Let's take to the streets together in the coming months.SubstAnZ remains!https://likos.noblogs.org/2024/02/25/demo-fuers-substanz-am-24-2-2023-redebeitrag/_________________________________________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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