Author: Anarchistisches Netzwerk Dresden

In many public and alternative places around Germany you can find people painting hammer and sickle. Stickers with those symbols are combined with slogans for liberation and freedom. It seems like a lot of people have faith that this symbol is directly representing all the currents of the communist movement. It goes mistakenly to the extent that some of the anarchist next to traditional a in a circle paint hammer and sickle to show their affiliation with anarcho-communist movement.

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September was filled with theoretical discussions and presentation on anarchism and different sides of it. Libertarian days did bring a lot of people closer to the idea of anarchism. However sympathizing to the ideas is one thing, organizing to reach those ideals – is completely different story.

To prove that anarchism is a living alternative to capitalism we have to get organized and this is our call to you. In case you are still hesitating or you are completely alone and don’t know what to do – we will try to help you out.

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The more we move to future the more we see how German society is getting hooked up on police forces. Police is called resolve conflicts starting from street fight and ending up with somebody scratching a car next to you. Domination of police in sphere of conflict resolution is something that is completely destroying possibilities of people to interact with each other. Instead of creating ways of to solve the conflicts together we more and more appeal to the state to make this resolution. And even worse – we appeal to the state muscle which police is to resolve our issues. It’s like asking an elephant to run a China shop. And you know what? I think between elephant and police i would still pick up the first.

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As anarchist I would have a lot of things to say about antifascism, mostly critics. I am not writing this text to do a theorical critics on antifascism, although I would like first to point out the mistake (to me) of focusing in only one particular thing, the same way as I think that antiracism or feminism, alone, are a mistake. Why, you would ask. Because, as anarchists we are well aware that the world is much more complex than a simple and easy manichean view on it, or on the society. There’s not only « monsters » and good people. Fascism is not the evil coming from the nowhere, but it’s the result of the society against wich anarchists are struggling since the 19th century, and before the coming of the European official fascism the world was not such a paradise, racism was existing, there were pogroms, women were badly treatened, children were working in mines, genocide was already part of the human history, workers were dying early because of a terrible exploitation, and anarchists were persecuted, sentenced to death or send to penal colonies in the Pacific islands or South America. Focusing only in fascism is a mistake because it’s build up a big evil, that doesn’t even have a lot of sense nowadays (what is fascism exactly again ? ), and to fight this big evil most of the time antifascists are acting threw the saying « the enemy of my enemy is my friend ». And this leads to a really problematic confusion among the antifascist movement (I am not talking about every antifascists of course, some know well where it stinks and with who they don’t want to hang out). But it also makes that you only see one single problem in this society, you only focuse on one thing, and erase all the rest.

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