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Events from Anarchist Network Dresden

International Week of Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners August 23 – 30, 2026

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Call from solidarity.international

Marius Mason, an environmental and animal rights activist, anarchist, writer, artist and trans advocate, was serving the longest sentence to date for acts of environmental sabotage. After 17 years of incarceration, we celebrate his release as he was moved to a half way house on May 14 this year. 

Inside prison, he never gave up, but stood up for himself and others, advocated for trans prisoners and strongly resisted the prison system. All the years before for International Week of Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners and Trans Prisoner Day of Action, we called to write to him. Now, we are excited to remove him from our letter writing list and instead join forces again on the outside.

Still, there are many remaining in prison and on our letter writing list, and ever new ones are being added. Solidarity is key to be able to fight this repressive system. Solidarity can carry us through the darkest times – a postcard or a letter, a rally in front of the prison, a visit means the world and gives energy. A story of a comrade in prison shared on an event multiplies with those present. It is our responsibility to let their ideas and with them the persons themselves travel beyond the prison walls. By not forgetting those in prison, solidarity can grow.

That’s why we call every year for the International Week of Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners. 

Times are getting harder, fascism is rising,and states, fascists and conservatives make us again the targets of their opposition – as progressive forces, Queers, Antifas, and Anarchists. They try to crush us such as in the recent convictions at the “Prairieland” case where people are facing up to 100 years in prison. Or the attempt to suppress the anarchist movement in Indonesia, where again after the May Day clashes ten anarchist are imprisoned and face serious charges.

In the face of that adversity, we need to stick together and act in solidarity. To strengthen our communities and support the most vulnerable. Let’s not forget the prisoners and instead fight side by side. People are not just prisoners, they are our comrades. Marius showed a great example of how we can reach out to each other to fight a shared struggle.

Join the International Week of Solidarity for Anarchist Prisoners!

Organize a letter writing, solidarity event, film screening, direct action, rally, or whatever comes to your mind and send pictures and a small report to tillallarefree@riseup.net.

Joint Trip – Feminist Anti-Prison Rally

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On May 31, 2026, there will be a feminist anti-prison rally in Chemnitz!
You can find the call to action here.
We want to travel there together with you!

May 31, 2026
Meeting point: 10:15 a.m. Schlesischer Platz, Dresden Neustädter Bahnof
Departure: 10:37 a.m. Platform 6
Arrival: 12:15 p.m. Chemnitz Technopark

May 31 – Anti-prison ralley – Chemnitz

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Join us at the women’s prison in Chemnitz: We won’t let them take away our colors—Together against prisons, the state, and patriarchy!

On May 31, we want to go together to the women’s prison in Chemnitz to show the people inside that they are not alone and have not been forgotten.

Prison means isolation, control by others, and violence. Prison is meant to punish, discourage, and discipline so that people conform to the prescribed social order. In doing so, prison is a tool of the state to maintain the capitalist, racist, and patriarchal social order that creates social problems and violent behavior in the first place.

Prisons have always been places to punish and remove from society’s “view” prostitutes/sex workers, beggars, and those who did not fulfill their socially assigned roles and were oppressed. Even today, it is people who experience poverty and racism, do not conform to gender norms, face other forms of discrimination, or suffer from mental illness who are more likely to be incarcerated than others (e.g., through community service orders or racially biased police stops). Thus, a large proportion of prisoners are in jail due to poverty-related “offenses.”

For women, trans* people, and queers in particular, the situation in prison is often especially difficult, as the prison system is patriarchal, gender-binary, and violent. For example, specific healthcare, hormone therapy, or educational opportunities are not available. Isolation from one’s own children and social circle are further aspects that define daily life in prison. Support work is often carried out by women; when they are then in prison, they often receive little support from cis-male relatives.

We know that prisons are meant to make our society’s problems invisible by hiding people from our view. We, on the other hand, want a society in which coexistence that is as non-violent and self-determined as possible is achievable. A society in which social problems are not individualized and criminalized, but rather addressed collectively. A society in which people can take responsibility for their actions and violent behavior can truly be addressed. A society without prisons, capitalism, patriarchy, and white supremacy. And we will not let anyone take that hope away from us!

So come with us to the Chemnitz Women’s Prison and let’s create some beautiful moments for the prisoners there. We want to try to break the isolation, at least for a moment—with music, greetings, and maybe even a few live performances!

Look for group train trips from your cities.

Hardfacts:
Sunday, 31 May 2026 | 1 pm
Place: women prison Chemnitz, Thalheimer Straße 29, 09125 Chemnitz

Anarchist Mayday 2026

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Work, work, work?
We want more from life!

This year, too, we want to take to the streets with you to stand up for our anarchist beliefs on the traditional Workers’ Day. This day symbolizes the hard-won rights of workers, which are currently under massive attack once again.

What Federal Minister of Economics Reiche calls a “return to greater economic freedom and personal responsibility” actually amounts to a ruthless dismantling of social security systems for the benefit of a select few. Merz is agitating—without any factual basis—against “work-shy individuals,” the supposedly spiraling costs of the citizen’s income, and the concept of “lifestyle part-time work,” which he himself invented. The basic income reform, the removal of health services from the list of statutory health insurance benefits, cuts to continued pay during sick leave, raising the retirement age, weakening the statutory pension, and the abolition of the eight-hour workday are being seriously discussed or have already been decided—all of this with virtually no significant protests. The already completely absurd distribution of social wealth is shifting in only one direction—and that is even further upward.

But we want far more than to defend and thereby perpetuate the current status quo. We want to talk about what work means to us and what it could look like if it were not subordinated to capitalist logic, but rather if we organized it ourselves, free from exploitation and oppression. We want to reflect on what we truly need and how we can produce it without destroying our global foundation for life and without it making us sick. We want the work that needs to be done to be distributed fairly—globally, but also in terms of gender. We want to discuss ways in which we, as a society, can work for wages less (not more!) in order to find enough time for what really matters: nurturing social relationships, building communities of solidarity, maintaining health, education, and political participation, …

Work, work, work?
We want more out of life!

So join us in large numbers at the anarchist demonstration on May 1!

12:00 PM – Wettiner Platz – Demonstration
2:00 PM – Jorge-Gomondai-Platz – Rally with info tables and workshops
7:00 PM – FAU Local (Bürgerstr. 52) – Get-together

Nuclear Power? No thanks! – 40th year anniversary of Chornobyl disaster

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When: Saturday 25 April 2026 | 4 – 6 pm 
Where: Hole of Fame | Königsbrücker Straße 39, Dresden

On 26 April 1986 the world went through one of the biggest technogen catastrophes – explosion and meltdown at Chornobyl nuclear power plant. The echo of that disaster was spread all around the globe and the amount of victims will most probably never be know due to secrecy of the soviet bureaucratic machine. But back in the 80s it was clear that the Chornobyl will stay in the lives of people for very long time. We gather 40 years later to remember what was happening back then, talk about the consequences and why it is important to talk about the place today, with it’s occupation by russian troops, drone strike and continuous maintenance of the huge sarcophagus that protects the rest of the world from the mistakes of the humankind.

The Soviet Empire is long gone, and Chornobyl is one of the monuments to it’s collapse, reminds us that we have to be careful with technology that can destroy us all.

The event will be in the format of reading parts of memories those who were affected by Chornobyl, but also facts and figures about past and present with a discussion afterwards on what we can learn from the past not to repeat the mistakes in the modern technological world.

The event will be in german and english language. 
There will be snacks and drinks at the bar.