We will meet at 3 p.m. at the deportation detention center. At 4 p.m., we will cycle together to Hammerweg, where the rally at the prison will begin at 5 p.m.!
What a year: raids against Antifa activists in Zwickau and Schwarzenberg in February, repression against the Dresden austerity protests, Maja’s hunger strike and tremendous solidarity in the summer, and again raids against Antifa activists in Görlitz, attempts by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution to chat us up in Freiberg in October, a new police law presented by the Saxon Ministry of the Interior that is even scarier than the old one in winter, Antifa Ost Komplex part two before the Higher Regional Court, repression against the Kurdish liberation movement, and at the end of the year, conscription, militarization, and social cuts. And at least 21 deaths from police shootings in Germany.
Every year at the end of the year, we say: New Year’s Eve at the prisons!
Pack everything that makes noise, from singing voices to cooking pots and firecrackers. Prisons are lonely places, and when everything outside is sparkling, banging and celebrating, those inside should at least be able to enjoy a little solidarity and variety.
We start again at the deportation prison on Hamburger Straße, a prison for people who have not committed any crime. They have merely tried to find refuge in Germany from hunger, war, persecution, and in search of a better life. The federal government, on the other hand, prefers to deal with the Taliban and despots worldwide, organizes and finances terror against migrants in North Africa, and feeds the mass grave that is the Mediterranean Sea.
This policy is inhumane! Freedom of movement and the right to stay are non-negotiable for everyone!
At 5 p.m., we will meet at the Hammerweg prison. Our comrades Aziz and Johann are being held there. Both are being prosecuted for their political activities under Section 129 of the German Criminal Code. Aziz is accused of supporting the PKK, Johann of participating in attacks on neo-Nazis. But the other prisoners in the prison also deserve better than to be locked up!
Most of them are there because they are too poor to afford decent legal representation, let alone pay their bills, travel expenses, food, or luxury items. That is the bitter reality in Germany: if you are poor, you end up in prison for criminal offenses. Those who are rich buy their freedom. There has been a name for this for more than a hundred years: class justice.
Let’s get together on New Year’s Eve and look back as well as forward! For a better 2026!
Together against repression, surveillance, and borders!
Prisons to community gardens!