(en) Germany, ag-freiburg: Racism fight, overcome borders! -
Anti Racist Action Day in Karlsruhe on 30th / 31st October (de)
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From 30 to 31 October in Karlsruhe, the Antiracist Action Days will take place. Assisted
by a local and regional alliance of various groups and individuals, they should send a
strong signal against racism and for a world without borders. A survey, there are the
A-mains. For Freiburg there is a common Zuganreise: ---- Saturday, October 31 // 09:30 //
clock HBF track 2 ---- Following the call of the Anarchist Network West * to the
Antiracist Action Days in Karlsruhe on 30 and 31 October 2015: ---- Racism from below ----
Racism is raging in Germany: Hardly more a week in the not burn a planned or already
partially inhabited refugee accommodation. Are Everywhere "No to Home 'initiatives which
are against the accommodation of fugitives, founded. Often behind this squad from NPD,
neo-Nazi parties like micro The third way or the party's rights and activist * inside the
free comradeship scene.
These initiatives, however, it is possible in many places with the organized of them
openly racist demonstrations and vigils far beyond the usual neo-Nazi environment to
mobilize beyond. What social science studies found long ago - a not inconsiderable part of
the German population is divided racist, anti-Semitic, and social-chauvinist antiziganist
settings - but not previously exhibited in election results or fascist right-wing populist
parties, manifests itself now on the road. Among the sea of flags of Germany PEGIDA and
its offshoots, the updated version of the authoritarian personality gathered - the
so-called "concerned citizens" or "asylum Critics" - a conformist revolt against the
supposed threat of "un-German". These "concerned citizens" come from the so-called
mainstream of society and lagging somewhat sympathize with the right-wing populist
alternative for Deuschland (AFD) than with open radical right-wing parties and groups.
Encouraged by this right mass movement on the streets below militant fascist * inside more
often to act. A major recipient of attacks are Escaped, Muslim * inside, Roma and Jew *
interior, but also the homeless, long-term unemployed, LTGBIQ * -people and left come
increasingly targeted. In addition to demonstrations, vigils, visiting citizens * indoor
gatherings a "mass militancy" of law, which in almost weekly arson attacks on refugee
shelters, the intimidation of political opponents * inside and riots manifested by pogroms
(Freital, Heidenau) developed.
This development is also far from being a pure east phenomenon: In Baden-Württemberg there
are PEGIDA offshoot in Karlsruhe (most recently resistance Karlsruhe) and
Villingen-Schwenningen. NPD, the rights, The Third Way and the Identitarian movement
trying - to launch local "No to Home" campaigns - albeit so far without much success. This
year there have been numerous attacks on refugee homes and attacks on Escaped u. A. in
Waiblingen, Linkenheim-Hochstetten, Rheinstetten, Malterdingen, Aspach, Dettingen unter
Teck, Reutlingen, Sindelfingen, Sontheim, Bad Krozingen, Wendlingen am Neckar ,
Limburgerhof, Engen, Calw, Oppenheim, Remchingen, Radolfzell, Ellwangen, Balingen,
Weissach im Tal, Rottenburg am Neckar, Riedlingen and Wertheim. In addition, the NPD was
trying to open its new office in Baden-Wuerttemberg in the Swabian Alb in the immediate
vicinity of Landeserstaufnahmestelle for Refugees in Meßstetten. Her national convention
to be held in northern Baden Weinheim. For AFD chances in the regional elections next year
to get over the 5% threshold not too bad.
Racism from above
However, the racist * in on the street radicalize it only what is already practiced
anyway. The sort of people based on their origins
racism is an ideology - a false worldview - in which people on the basis of external or
cultural characteristics of the racist * inside a particular Group assigned to them
unchangeable and then certain, mostly negative characteristics about awarded. This
discrimination and most economic domination and exploitation are justified. The long
dominant form of "classical", biologistic argumentative racism transformed increasingly
into a culturalist argumentative racism. Meanwhile referenced rather less on 'race' or
genes, but more on the alleged "culture" of a human being in order to classify it either
as a social "enrichment" or as "disruptive".
In the current refugee debate here a distinction of fugitives is carried out in two
groups: To stand on one side "useful" Immigrant * inside, well trained, the German economy
serve, as well as "war refugees". Who does not fall in these categories, which is defamed
as "economic refugees" or "sham asylum seeker" who would the asylum system "abuse" and to
be deported as soon as possible. The German deportation, which is supported by the Greens,
the SPD and the CDU, works by precisely this inhuman proviso.
But this distinction between legitimate and nichtlegitimen flight reasons is racist. It
serves to justify the discrimination and deportation of most of the fugitives. In
Baden-Württemberg the roomy Roma from the Balkans, which escape from discrimination and
poverty.
The pressure on the street also shows already at the state level action: The law "for the
redefinition of the right to stay and the termination of residence" was recently the next
tightening of asylum law with votes from the SPD and the CDU decided. Apart from a few
concessions for people with residence status at the same detention, entry and residence
bans and expulsions to current official practice will be.
The green-red state government in Baden-Württemberg exceeds meanwhile their black and
yellow previous government in terms of state racism to lengths not only was it this year
no Winterabschiebestopp - which meant that many refugees with no possessions were deported
in mid-winter in homelessness - or that Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann (Green Party)
explained to safe countries of origin through his voice in the Bundesrat Serbia, Macedonia
and Bosnia - which means that asylum applications of Escaped from these countries are
"obviously" groundless rejected as though the rampant there Antiziganism many Roma living
there impossible proven to live in dignity. No, even with the number of deportations to be
padded in Baden-Württemberg and not spilled: In the first half of this year, 1080 people
have been deported against their will from Baden-Württemberg, Bayern only pushes more from.
Racism against Roma
In the campaign against Escaped from the Balkans old resentments are served. It is spoken
of "bogus asylum seekers", which would come to Germany to here to receive benefits and
could lead a good life in their countries of origin after their "voluntarily".
Although the makers * inside priority Order here for economic usefulness (unskilled
workers * inside are currently not used in Germany), in such statements seem old
antiziganist resentment in updated form: The fugitives from the Balkan countries are as
nomadic (oscillating between country of origin and Germany), lazy (not willing to wage
labor), criminal (obtain the grant asylum services) and assozial (take the "real" refugees
places away) shown. These are allegations that repeatedly Gypsies were made historically
and - what a surprise - most fugitives from the Balkan countries are Roma. In response to
the increase in refugee numbers are work and training bans, property rather than cash
benefits, and a concentration of Balkan refugees in so-called "reception centers" - ie
special camps - discussed.
Munter will continue to be written on a centuries-old history of persecution and
discrimination: Gypsies occurred in Central Europe at the beginning of the 15th century
for the first time in appearance.. Were they greeted first as wandering pilgrims * inside,
the assessment however changed quickly. The decision of the Reichstag to Freiburg in 1498
they were officially expelled from the German territories and explained for the first time
for "outlaws". The central element of antiziganism here is the pursuit of the "Gypsies"
because they are - allegedly - did not want the compulsion to wage labor, and the
resulting vagrancy bend, or could. Then in the 18th century there was a biologistic
racialization of the "gypsies". Galten previously taken part as a kind beggar * inside and
Vagant * inside, were therefore linked to a particular social situation, they were now
considered to be members of a "Gypsy race". It was followed by the police detection and
combat. So since the mid 19th century systematic records were created and Gypsies were the
target of various reeducation attempts. 1926, entered into Bavaria, the "Act to combat
Gypsies, vagabonds and work-shy" in force, which allowed every "gypsies" who pursued any
regular work, in a so-called "workhouse" ward. In Nazism Sinti and Roma were affected by
the Nuremberg Race Laws. From 1936 it began to intern them in so-called "Gypsy camp". 1938
was ordered by Himmler, the "final solution of the Gypsy question through the nature of
that race". The Porajmos, ie the systematic genocide to murder, the aim as "Gypsies" the
appointed people, began in 1939. The Germans murdered and 1945 hundreds of thousands of
Roma and Sinti.
In 1953 the state police in Bavaria with old Nazi staff again a "Landfahrer center" built.
The addition of "ZN" for "Gypsy" has been used in forensics to 1984th Most of the
survivors of Porajmos were compensated inadequately or not until today. The discrimination
and exclusion continues to this day. The most common prejudices in the majority population
are still that Roma beg, steal and would live in caravans. But even more romantic elements
are included in the Roma stereotype about that would be "gypsies" for unbridled freedom,
for music and for erotic dance. (Exoticism)
Crisis and racism
In times of crisis of the capital today, everyone is potentially at risk of economic and
social decline. This has two individual psychology to comprehend consequences:
On one side threatens the bourgeois-capitalist society always latently own About
liquefaction, so the loss of the possibility of its own reproduction in the form of the
sale of their own labor by unemployment (whether by illness, age or the next economic
crisis). This creates existential fears, which have the effect that in the people the
desire is awakened to look in the seemingly safe and natural community of the nation and /
or the people protection and solidarity.
This community of the nation and the people allows individuals to satisfy their need for
capacity against social conditions, which makes you feel helpless. Here the gap between
ideal ego (the action-enabled autonomous bourgeois subject) and reality (the powerlessness
against economic processes which are taking place behind the backs of the actors) can be
closed. One thus missing a narcissistic insult, ie questioning of the own self-esteem.
Social contradictions are the racist and anti-Gypsy world picture now in the form of
simple in-out contradictions (eg German - "Gypsy") transformed. So phenomena,
contradictions and problems which are out of themselves (re) produced (eg urbanization,
individuation, exploitation, monopoly practices, impoverishment, mass unemployment) the
bourgeois-capitalist society the "others" attributed. As a solution to the problem is now
the expulsion / prosecution of the "others", ie in Antiziganism of "Gypsy" appears. The
"Gypsy" or fugitives be the scapegoat for everything negative.
Reasons for flight
Antiziganism is widespread mainly in Eastern Europe and the Balkans. The majority of Roma
has no fixed accommodation, no proper housing. They organize their survival in irregular
settlements, slums, often without water, sewage and electricity. Life expectancy is
against the social average correspondingly low, infant mortality is higher by a multiple.
A regular income is almost never available. In many households there is hardly anything to
eat for days. Core rights such as the right to housing, food, work, education, etc. are
not guaranteed. The Roma suffer prejudice, systematic discrimination, marginalization,
exclusion and violent attacks. Many are subject to permanent expulsion pressure. Police
evictions of Roma settlements are commonplace. These are the reasons why many come here in
the hope of a better life in Germany.
Revolutionary Perspective
Racism has many faces: discriminatory slogans and gestures, police checks based on skin
color, nocturnal deportation, arson attacks and pogroms, discriminatory laws, the
classification of people according to their economic usefulness. They are fighting all!
But besides these everyday anti-racist and anti-fascist defensive battles we have to open
up its own social revolutionary perspective: anti-fascism and anti-racism must be more
than the defense of the bourgeois-capitalist society. If we want to fight fascism and
racism sustainably, we must also attack their formation conditions and the capitalist
socialization, because the best practice to the national community, nationalism and racism
is still the class struggle, understood as self-intervention by the wage-earning class,
with the aim of its own abolition!
As anarchists, we reject this bourgeois-capitalist form of society that divides people
into useful and useless. We oppose this order, which only aims to generate profits and
where only the capital can move freely and limitless. Poverty, hardship and escape before
it are not natural disasters, but results of the capitalist system! A system that people
become homeless next to empty houses or other starves alongside tons of discarded food. A
system that is not designed to satisfy the needs of people, but everything, whether human
or natural, exclusively subjecting his murderous logic of exploitation.
We stand for a society without exploitation and oppression, a society without states,
nations, borders and fences, a company in which you want no man through another man
prevail. We want the liberal communism, ie a society based on the principles of individual
and collective freedom, social self-government and the collective satisfaction of needs.
We therefore call for participation in the Antiracist Action Day's on 30 and 31 October
2015 Karlsruhe on. We make a stand against racism in the state and society, and we are
promoting the perspective of a society free of domination!
Against any racism! For the libertarian communism! For anarchy!
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