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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

Join the anarchist 1. May

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At home, at work, on the streets – shit doesn’t need to stay the same!

Imagine everybody has a nice place to live, a place to call home with enough space to live and to work. Imagine all of us could afford such a place – not only for a day but also for the future. Imagine the elderly people were not living in poverty, after they have been working their entire life not or poorly paid. Imagine there was nothing to worry about for them. No reason to worry about food, heating and everything else nessecary for a good life. Imagine everyone’s home would be safe from violence and repression. Imagine if people care about the condition of your home, the well-being of your children is not determined by your gender. And imagine the appointments at the emplyment office would not drain the last bit of our energy that was left for the unifying aspects in life and its beauty.

Your work wouldn’t threaten your life or your health. You could – along with your collegues- influence the way you work, what you produce, how much time you take for weach task. Work would have meaning! Work would be aligned with our needs, without harming nature. You and your collegues would be a team, without competition. You would be finally allowed care for and support one another.

So what’s needed? Nothing less than overturning the current conditions we are living in. So let’s go out on the streets for this year’s 1. MAY and let’s fight together for better living- and working conditions. Let’s turn the fear of our rights being taken back at ome and at work into collective anger and le’ts take this anger to the streets! Whether it’s that your work contract won’t be renewed due to social cuts, the f*ing Bürgergeld that was never meant to sustain a living, the erosion of your salary by inflation year after year, or the fact that your safety at work is valued less than your boss’s profit interests…

Let’s turn our anger in a collective the force that can defy this destructive capitalistic system!

08.06.24 antiauthoritarian-antifaschist block at the Demo #WirSindDieBrandmauer

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You cannot vote fascism out of society!

🫵🏽Being an anti-fascist is not an option, but rather a necessity for all those who believe in a just and equal society, without fascism and all other authoritarian ideologies!

✊🏽We are going together at 08 June 2024 to the demonstration #WirSindDieBrandmauer there will be an antiauthoritarian-antifascist block in #Dresden

meeting point: 3pm Goldener Reiter

You can read more about the topic here:

vote fascism out

Climate strike 31.05.24 – What do authoritarianism and climate change have to do with each other?

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Quite simply! That would of course be too short-sighted! 
Let’s briefly look at two aspects. 

For a society, authoritarian politics means that political or economic solutions are implemented centrally. In the past and present, this means that large-scale projects are usually implemented over the heads of the inhabitants of affected regions. These can be dams, mining, tourism projects, company relocations and the like. Governments and businesses usually work hand in hand here. For the local people, this means that nature and their livelihoods are destroyed. Large corporations or the state itself make a profit from this. 

It is not uncommon for regions to be selected for this purpose in order to suppress rebellious inhabitants and gain political control over areas by destroying the livelihoods of local people. 

This is usually sold as infrastructure or development investments, allegedly created jobs or supposedly necessary energy projects. 

And this brings us to the second aspect of authoritarian politics. If people do not share these perspectives, do not benefit from these projects in any case, but instead point out the destruction of the environment and the consequences for the climate and want to save the affected regions, they are criminalized, subjected to massive repression and, in some regions of the world, simply murdered. 

Exploitation of resources and the destruction of nature is also taking place on a massive scale in Germany, for example through mining and its contaminated sites and the establishment of huge unnecessary corporations such as Tesla in Grünheide. 

That’s why we’re also present with Stop Authoritarianism Campaign at the climate strike on 31 May in Dresden!

Against authoritarian politics!
For a decentralisation of the energy supply!
Solidarity with the climate activists affected by repression!

Meeting point 2pm at Goldener Reiter.
We wanna walk than together to Schlossplatz, where the demo starts.