Highlighting Independent and Solidarity News

The scenes in Chemnitz have rightly horrified not just activists and antifascists in Germany, but people around the world appalled at the appearance of right-wing hooligans flooding the streets of Germany, making the Hitler salute and using the death of an individual to stoke an openly fascist world outlook. However, while few doubt the seriousness of the situation, press coverage has been subpar in Germany and simply abominable in the English-speaking world. Since the beginning of the "refugee crisis" and Chancellor Angela Merkel's (CDU) decision to adopt a public face ( though hardly a policy ) of welcoming migrants, the media has promoted the concept that Germans "left behind" by economic and social change or otherwise upset with the move have been on one end of a "sharp divide" and a "backlash." While it is undeniable that many in Germany have been detrimentally impacted by neoliberal economic policies , the media, especially in t...

While the “Benalla Affair” has dominated French public discussion since July, the country’s police force’s mingling with private militias has not stopped there, as border police have supported ultra-right gangs in violent actions against refugees, according to information gathered from solidarity networks in the area. Although Emmanuel Macron was elected primarily due to a desire to defeat Marine Le Pen of the far-right National Front, under his rule the police have stepped up cooperation with extra-legal “thugs.” MediaPart, a French socialist website, noted that “because the police are happy to have reinforcement…..they know how to find allies.” These allies can be both ideological or purely practical. In the case of the Benalla Affair, the official police and private militias effectively merged. In a parliamentary session, the Interior Minister, Gérard Collomb, essentially admitted that there had been cooperation due to the alleged threat posed by the Black Bloc and ot...

It has been obvious to most media from the beginning that Giuseppe Conte, no matter how many handshakes he makes with Trump or summit meetings he attends, is not the true boss of Italy: that designation belongs to arch-racist and Mussolini-quoting Interior Minister Matteo Salvini. The focus on the reason behind this – the leaders of Lega and 5 Star both wanted to be Premier and couldn’t agree on who deserved the title – misses an important and worrying shift in European politics: Increasingly, interior ministers are becoming the political figures with the most popularity, and often, the most power. Take Germany. Angela Merkel, who has been Chancellor of Germany for thirteen years, is increasingly looking like a lame duck, whose mandate could be cut short at any time by Horst Seehofer, a virulently anti-Muslim and anti-refugee figure with a penchant for hostility towards left-wing street activists combined with tolerance for legitimate fascists in his police work. Herbert...

  #AllOutPDX: White Nationalists Run Wild In Portland, Antifa Counter-Protestors Attacked By Cops   "You Killed Heather Heyer!" Residents Manifest Against Alt-Right   Neo-Nazis Provided With Private Metro Cars, Perks By State..... Police Use Stun Grenades, Pepperspray, Teargas Against Anti-Racists.....   Masked Extreme-Right Mob Attacks Bookmarks Bookshop, Tear Up Books On Anti-Semitism Everything Wrong Is The Fault Of '68: The Far-Right's Avenue Towards Regaining Cultural Hegemony By Trashing The Left  Socialism Has Spend 40 Years Answering For Its "Crimes." Time To Put Capitalism In The Dock. Brazil's Coming Election Is The Epitome Of The World's Ongoing Political Crisis   Brazil: Subfascist Bolsonaro Picks Coup-Mongering General For Running Mate The Worst-Case Scenario: A Successful Coup Against Corbyn Would Lead To A Truly Anti-Semitic Labour Party     Tom Watson Flails After He Draws Huge Public Rebuke For His ...

Activist outrage has exploded following the decision of Facebook, run by billionaire Mark Zuckerberg, to remove pages and events related to the "No Unite the Right 2- DC," on the grounds that a page related to the protests may have been created by adversarial and inauthentic "bad actors," a term increasingly used to designate anyone online who promotes ideas outside the political consensus in the US and Europe. No real explanation is given at all for the removal of the pages, other than fear-mongering statements that a dastardly plot was supposedly unleashed to get people to attend a protest against white supremacists and alt-right frontmen who have been known to attack and even kill anti-racists like Heather Heyer. Promises to "release more data later," were foreshadowed by assessments that those involved in making them used VPNs and other tools, making them "more sophisticated" than previous alleged efforts by Russia to sw...

(Translated from Barrikade to highlight activism for refugees' rights and conditions facing migrants in Europe https://barrikade.info/Aktionsruckblick-Aktionen-gegen-Grenzen-fur-pol-Gefangene-und-Gedenken-an-Suruc-1286) On Wednesday night, we placed signs in various public baths and along the Aare, which forbid mooring with boats as well as the rescue of drowning people. In this way we want to draw attention to the inhumane and murderous policies on the European external borders Nationalist politics once again shows its murderous face! Europe's right-wing governments are tightening their foreclosure policy and causing thousands of people to die at European external borders. The depressing, temporary climax was reached when private rescue ships with fugitives were forbidden to break into a harbor or even set sail. The result was hundreds of dead refugees in June this year. Central to this policy are the new governments of Italy, Austria and Ger...

This text is translated from Friends of the Earth Belgium and is intended to draw awareness of the ongoing case https://www.amisdelaterre.be/soutien-au-proces-des-ecrans-ttip-game-over  Following the subversion of digital billboards to show messages against free trade agreements in July 2016, an activist is being prosecuted for sabotage and hacking, and faces jail time as well as a heavy fine. Our organisations express their solidarity and denounce the repressive and disproportionate nature of justice for these actions in the fight against free trade treaties. Statement of support for the activist on trial for "TTIP Game Over" screens An activist is being prosecuted for sabotage and hacking following the subversion of advertising screens. The trial starts in 2 months on September 5th. A giant Coca-Cola billboard located on Place De Brouckère was the target of an action on July 10, 2016. The logo was replaced by the message "TTIP Game Over...

EXPOSED: French President Macron's Security Aide Beat Up Students On May Day, Revelation Unleashes Mass Outrage Emails Show Wider Repression Network Among Macron Staff.... Macron's Privatised Stomping & Beating Of Protestors Is, Without A Doubt, Liberal Fascism France: Left-Wing Eco Activists Squats Attacked By Arsonists. Wonder Who? Environmentalists Against The Mariner East 2 Pipeline- A Series Of New Standing Rocks Anti-Pipeline Podcast: Stopping The Mountain Valley Pipeline Zapatistas Fighting NAFTA Once Again - Will Round Two Lead To Victory? Subvertisers Replace Commercial Filth With Solidarity Art For Green Rojava Eric Hazen - The Publisher Propelling The Ideas Of The French Left Today Podcast: "Literal Communist" Debates "Literal Capitalist" Bibi Law Codifies Israeli Apartheid As Arab Lawmakers Kicked Out Of Parliament Amid Jeers Zionist Entity Shores Up Ties To Far-Right In Europe Including Alternative For Germany...