We are for the violence that opposes the horrible and brutal violence of social conditions!
We are for the struggle against war!
Sometimes it almost seems that the slogans of the radical left are outdated. Sometimes it seems as if the idea of a world without war is no longer in fashion. War is accepted with a shrug, as a realistic option. Sometimes it seems that all these military operations “without alternative” have put us to sleep. Sometimes. Encouraged by the attack on the arms company OHB in Bremen in November, we decided to fight the war here. That’s why in the early morning of December 7th we set fire to a fleet of army vehicles in the Neustadt district of Bremen – in the parking lot of the company MAN, which profits from the war.
As the old slogan says: what burns in Germany cannot cause damage elsewhere.
Twenty years of Afghanistan have shown us not only in a very banal way, but also in a very brutal way: war is shit, war brings nothing but suffering, destruction and death for many people, and huge profits for a few. Twenty years of war in Afghanistan, during which countless civilians have lost their lives. In addition there are all the dead who, while fleeing this murderous war, lost their lives on the way to a supposedly safe Europe. Drowned in the Mediterranean. Frozen to death on the north-eastern borders of Europe. The borders of this Europe that won the Nobel Peace Prize. It makes us vomit.
It is difficult to surpass the cynicism of Europe, and in the first place of Germany, which does not want to give in to the blackmail carried out by the Belarusian leader Lukashenko, who uses human suffering. Human suffering that has been caused by your weapons and your war for profit. No, we are certainly not friends of Lukashenko, nor of Erdogan or Putin. But it is easy and comfortable to point the finger at despots, when the suffering caused by your wars happens so far away. And if people manage to flee from war and lack of prospects, it is isolation, stigmatization and repression that threaten them. As if Germany and Europe would rather not have the misery they have caused right under their noses. So who will be surprised if these people are immediately loaded, by force, onto planes, to be deported to a country already largely governed by the Taliban. Oh yes, that’s right, it’s a safe country. It makes us puke.
Thanks to the free rides for the soldiers, every train trip turns into a camouflage party. The uniformed members of the army also provide active support in the fight against the Coronavirus pandemic. Whether in a vaccination center or in an EHPAD. Uniforms, orders and obedience have become an integral part of public life. Civil-military cooperation? It makes us puke.
