They say we are extremists!
Since 2024, the anarchist network has been mentioned in the annual report of the German domestic intelligence service. The so-called Office for the Protection of the Constitution has since designated the AND as “confirmed left-wing extremist,” thereby declaring us a threat to Germany’s security. Our new status as “extremists” allows the German state to monitor us, spy on us, observe our homes, eavesdrop on us, and infiltrate our immediate surroundings—all under the pretext of ensuring security. The same state that considers us a relevant security problem deports people, murders in German police stations, makes deals with dictators, and continues to supply weapons to authoritarian regimes.
So while we are marked as a threat, the real danger lies elsewhere.
Our living space is becoming unaffordable, our neighborhoods increasingly anonymous, social cuts are leading to lower wages and more competition in the workplace, and at the end of the month, we barely have enough money to live on. Summers are getting longer and hotter and are already a real danger, especially for the sick and elderly. Rising temperatures are not only a problem for us humans, but for a large proportion of all living beings. One of the world’s largest CO2 emitters is the animal industry. Animals are permanently and universally oppressed by humans: through mass killing for food, through the destruction of natural habitats in the name of capital, and through exploitation for experimental purposes. We need a radical rethinking of our social relationship between humans and animals and a joint struggle for a good life for all.
Our identity and our sexual self-determination are under threat. From “conservative ideas” of right-wing parties that want to dictate how we should live and how many children we should have. Deportations to war zones take place almost daily. What caused outrage a few years ago is now a footnote in the daily news. All these dangers stem from an authoritarian shift that has been looming for years and is becoming increasingly real.
But what actually makes us safe?!
This state does not make us safe, quite the contrary! – so it’s up to us! During this year’s A-Days, we want to address this question and develop strategies together, learn from each other, and exchange ideas: What really makes us safe? How can we preserve and protect our communities in the long term? What can we learn from struggles in other parts of the world? Through our program of workshops, lectures, films, art, and culture, as well as delicious food and plenty of time for exchange, we want to strengthen ourselves together for a world in which survival requires more and more strength.
Our greatest strength lies in our community, in our solidarity. So let’s use these A-Days again to get in touch with each other, to network, and to make new friends. Because one thing is certain: in order to defend ourselves against authoritarian politics and attacks on our ideas, we need secure and trusting relationships as the basis for a stable community.
Whether you are reading about anarchism for the first time or have been regularly attending the A-Days events in Dresden since 2016, you are warmly invited!
Programm A-Tage Dresden 2025
MONTAG 01.09.2025
17:00-18:30: Workshop – Einführung in den Anarchismus [DE] @hole of fame
18:30-19:30: Essen für alle @hole of fame
19:30-21:00: Israel before and after 7th October – a society in revolt against itself [EN] @hole of fame
20:00-21:00 Aurora’s sunrise OmeU [ARM, EN] @Thalia Kino Dresden
DIENSTAG 02.09.2025
16:00-18:30: “Quo vadis Tier?!” – Ein Stadtrundgang aus Tierbefreiungsperspektive [DE] @ Militärhistorisches Museum (am Denkmal der Roten Armee am Olbrichtplatz)
17:00-18:30 “Eigentümlich anti-sozial” – Programmatik, Ideologie und Hintergründe der rechtslibertären Strömung [DE] @malobeo
18:30-19:30 Essen für Alle @malobeo
19:30-21:00 Der Anarchismus ab 1945 und die autonome Bewegung [DE] @malobeo
20:00-21:30: Buchvostellung und Lesung: Das Wort für Zuhause ist Feuer [DE] @Café Konkurs
MITTWOCH 03.09.2025
14:00-18:00: Emanzipatorische Umgänge mit sexualisierter Gewalt (workshop) [DE] @malobeo
17:00-18:30 Plattformismus und Especifismo – Vortrag und Diskussion mit der Anarchokommunistischen Föderation [DE] @AZConni
18:30-19:30 Essen für Alle @AZConni
19:30-21:30 Wieviel Panzer braucht es um eine Glühbirne zu wechseln? – Diskussion/Workshop zu Antimilitarismus und Selbstverteidigung [DE] @AZConni
DONNERSTAG 04.09.2025
17:30-21:00: Kollektiver Umgang mit Klimakollaps und Desastervorbereitung – Verdrängst du noch oder preppst du schon?! (workshop) [DE] @Mangelwirtschaft
17:00 – 18:30 Reclaim the game – workshop [EN/DE] @FAU Lokal Dresden
18:30-19:30 Essen für Alle
19:30-21:00 Kollaps im Knast vermeiden [DE] @FAU Lokal Dresden
FREITAG 05.09.2025 – 10 Jahre Internationalistisches Zentrum
ab 16:00: Kuchenbuffet zum IZ Geburtstag – bringt alle Kuchen mit!!! @Zentralwerk Hof
16:00-18:00 Wendo-Workshop: Selbstbehaubtung für FLINTA* [DE] @ FAU Lokal
17:30-19:00: Gewalt in queeren Beziehungen (Vortrag und Diskussion) [DE] @Seminarraum
17:00-18:30: Militarization of the Israeli society [EN] @IZ
18:30-19:30: Essen für alle @Zentralwerk Hof
19:30-21:00: Autonomous kitchen councils – The mutual aid organizing model emerging from the struggle against cop-city @IZ
19:30-21:00: ABC Belarus: Uprising in Belarus revisted 5 years later [EN] @Seminarraum
SAMSTAG 06.09.2025
14:00-16:00: Bis alle frei sind – Lesung und Buchvorstellung [DE] @Seminarraum
14:00-14:30 GrapheneOS für Aktivist:innen [DE] @IZ
14:30-15:30: Sprechstunde GrapheneOS für Aktivist:innen [DE] @IZ
14:30-16:00: Struggle of Russian anarchists and repression against them by Putin’s regime [EN] @FAU Lokal
15:30-17:30: Einblicke in die Kämpfe indigener Gemeinschaften Mexikos und das zapatistische Encuentro 2025 [DE] @IZ
16:00-19:00: Pfeffersprayworskhop – Pfeffern als gäbs kein Morgen [DE] @Ort nach Anmeldung
16:00-17:30: Anarchist resistance in ukraine – present and past [UK/EN] @Seminarraum
16:00-17:30: Self-organization for mental well-being [EN] @FAU Lokal
18:00-19:30: Community self-defence in United states – talk with an Anarchist from so called US [EN] @Seminarraum
17:45-19:15: Bachmut, 19. April 2023 – Lesung und Gespräch [DE] @FAU Lokal
18:30-19:30: Essen für Alle @Zentralwerk Hof
20:00-21:30: Deutsche Staatsräson als Ausgangspunkt einer linken Bewegung?! Migrantische Perspektiven auf antideutsche Politik [DE/EN] @Seminarraum
SONNTAG 07.09.2025
11:00-18:00: Wanderung durch die sächsische Schweiz mit den Schwarz-Roten Bergsteiger*innen [DE] @Sächsische Schweiz
15:00-18:00: Radikalisiert euch! Beiträge zu radikaler Theorie und Praxis (Lesekreis) [DE] @Malobeo
ab 18:00: Essen für Alle und offenes Treffen @Malobeo