Call for a german-wide demonstration on June 14 in Jena.
There will be a journey from Dresden. Information below!
Now more than ever.
Times are getting tougher, the wind is blowing cold from the right-wing. Climate, wars, inflation – the world is literally on fire. Faced with multiple crises, systemic solutions are proving increasingly impossible. Because the necessary answers are inconvenient, the state prefers to create problems that it can supposedly solve with deportations and imprisonment. Not only in Germany, authoritarian governments seem to be the thing of the hour worldwide. Despite all the different degrees of horror, they are united by their hostility towards the social left. Right-wing authoritarian and fascist regimes in particular are dominating the political stage and exacerbating the global threat of war with their nationalism. Where their actors are not yet in power, they are busy networking, learning from each other and strengthening each other. There is hardly a trace of liberating, ecological and anti-fascist large-scale projects. Yet these are sorely needed.
The right-wing advance
The attacks by the right are as diverse as they are numerous. In parliaments, online and on the streets, the tone is becoming harsher; the content more socially chauvinistic, racist and nationalistic. Achievements of feminist struggles and those of the international workers’ movement are being rolled back, also with the help of their former political representatives. At the same time, Nazis continue to arm themselves and expand right-wing terrorist structures, practise for attacks in martial arts training sessions, make plans for a coup and prepare for a day X and attack left-wing projects with increasing brazenness. At the same time, the militant Nazi scene continues to network diligently, including at Nazi-glorifying marches in Budapest and Sofia. One thing is clear: the right-wing advance will not be stopped by the next government, but by us.
Accusation: anti-fascism
Anyone who campaigns against the right, but wants to do more than defend parliamentary democracy as such, is quickly confronted with the German discourse roller, which tries to flatten every critical effort as “left-wing chaos”. Anyone who is not quick enough to distance themselves when the capitalist economic system is called into question or a bag of paint is thrown is not only in trouble with the Springer press.
Civil society actors, for example in the field of political education and the prevention of anti-Semitism, are increasingly losing the ground under their feet and the means to continue their work. With parliamentary questions, the CDU and AfD want to increase the pressure on left-wing civil society and sow mistrust and uncertainty. Bans on teachers and university staff seem to be back in vogue. Investigations under Section 129 of the German Criminal Code are on the rise – whether against the Kurdish movement, climate activists, anti-capitalists or, last but not least, anti-fascists.
Extensive investigations are currently being conducted against anti-fascists who allegedly attacked Nazis during an international Nazi meeting in Budapest – the so-called “Day of Honor”. Around a dozen people are affected by the repression in different countries. Antifas are being held in prisons in Hungary, Germany and France, sit in the dock, have been extradited or are threatened with extradition.
Those who fight against Nazis cannot rely on the state
The persecution of antifascists is not a defense of the rule of law. It is not the alleged or actual militancy that is being punished, but the political perspective that appears in practice: our people are in prison because they are anti-fascists. Criminal offenses are not simply prosecuted according to the law, but in the fight against leftists, the much-vaunted rule of law is sometimes overridden if necessary.
The punitive state not only shows particular severity, but also bends the law. In order to send out a “strong signal” against the left, open pacts are made with the Hungarian unjust state, data and files are diligently exchanged and, in the case of Maja’s unconstitutional extradition, the judiciary is bypassed. Public prosecutors are currently turning a blind eye to basic fundamental rights. Everyone is only equal before the law if they have a German passport. So – as in the case of Zaid – extradition is once again a threat. Those who fight against Nazis cannot rely on the state – at most on its double standards.
Repressive authorities do not act neutrally, but are themselves political actors, and so it is hardly surprising that, despite all the scandals, the Saxon special commission LinX, in addition to countless house searches and surveillance, diligently carries out public relations work in an anti-antifa manner.
Defend anti-fascism!
Budapest and the Antifa East proceedings are not isolated cases in which the state wants to prove its special strength. They are just the tip of the iceberg. It is no coincidence that in times of the right-wing advance, when oppositional, emancipatory and anti-fascist movements are more important than ever, it is precisely these that come under attack. We must therefore not lose ourselves in individualized defensive struggles. Anti-fascism must return to the offensive. We can only do this together, only if we use our strongest weapon: Solidarity.
We will not look the other way when desk criminals order house searches and surveillance and threaten extradition. We will not accept another day in which anti-fascists are held in prisons. We will not allow anti-fascism as a movement to be attacked.
See you on 14.06.2025 at 14:00 in Jena to show our frustration and anger against their repression and to take our passion and love for the fight for a better tomorrow to the streets. We defend anti-fascism in its diversity – against all attempts at division!
Antifa Elbflorenz is organizing a bus trip to Jena.
The bus tickets are available at the bookstore König Kurt, on Rudolf Leonhard Straße 39 for 15 to 25 €.
If you don’t have enough money, please let us know and we can offer you a cheaper ticket.
You will receive an information sheet, departure time and location with your tickets.
Secure your place and be there – all together to Jena!