Radikale Linke

Build the radical left

The Platform Radical Left is an association of different groups. Despite the different approaches that our groups and individuals have to politics, we share a radical critique of existing social and political reality and the goal of a liberated society beyond state, nation, patriarchy and capitalism.

We see ourselves as radical leftists. That means: The world can not be improved in the long term by reforms within the capitalist system. Therefore, we do not support the parliamentary party system and the hope for a socially fairer and ecologically sustainable capitalism. We must fundamentally change society and believe that people can live together collectively and according to their needs, beyond capitalism, the constraints of wage labour, rigid gender roles and the division into nations. We want to organize society collectively, globally and according to our needs.

We organize in an anti-authoritarian way, that is, we work on the dismantling of hierarchies. We strive for a society in which none stands above others and everyone has the same opportunities to participate in decision-making. We demand this for all areas of life, where people have to submit to the will of the state, the police or the boss at the moment.

We are feminist, anti-fascist, anti-racist and fight against all antisemitism. In short, we oppose all ideologies that claim to classify and devalue people on the basis of certain characteristics such as their origin, appearance or gender.

We are convinced that we can only oppose the global rise of the authoritarian right if we support each other in our political work and bundle our forces, our different focuses and ways of working.

As an association, we are open to people who share an emancipatory critique of society as it currently works and who want to think together about how we can change it. Within this process, questions will arise that are often not easy to answer and we encounter all kinds of contradictions. That’s why we want to argue with passion and look for answers together in order to find utopias for a better world that is possible.

On June the 11th the neo-fascist organisation ”Identitäre” wants to organize their third rally in Vienna, Austria. Under the slogan “Remigration” the neo-fascists want to march through the streets. This is an explicit threat to everyone who will not qualify for their ideas of a pure race. The demand for „Remigration“ is nothing less than a call for pogroms. This year and once again we as antifascists will disturb them by any means possible! The rally on the 11th of June is an important happening for all extreme right wing structures throughout Austria and beyond. Not only its symbolical character but also its international reachout makes it a significant event for the far right.

The past marches of the “Identitäre” have been attended by Nazis from France, Germany, Italy, Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovenia. It is on us to block their march and to use the present discussion about the “Identitäre“ to show what they really are: violent fascists, who want the world structured after their racial and discriminating believes. During the movements of refugees and the migration to central Europe one could witness these self-proclaimed “warriors” for a pure society in action and the results of their paranoid craze. Breaking violently through antifascist barricades and attacking antifascists after a rally are just some examples of their actions which we find ourselves confronted with. The violent disturbance of a theatre play performed by refugees at the University of Vienna leaving several injured can be seen as a temporary peak of a series of attacks from the direct surroundings an from inside of the “Identitäre”. The explanation for this new quality of right wing violence is not only due to a process of radicalization, but also the fact that they get the space they aim to take.

Consequently, antifascist actions are necessary to confront and destroy reactionary groups like the “Identitäre”. This is, by any means, what we need to thrive for. Therefore we call out to everyone to plan and act in decentralized and creative ways on the 11th of June, the day the Nazis want to occupy the streets. Join us too on the evening before, when we will walk on these very streets to inform the neighbourhood about the Nazis and to show that a radical left critic of the sexist, nationalist and racist ideology of the “Identitäre“ is alive and sound!

Nazis are the result of our competition, exclusion and domination based society. Nationalism is not a dead ideology hold up by a few but how world affairs are put into context and need to be interpreted on all levels. It’s not about defending the status quo against the “Identitäre” – it’s about articulating and practicing critique on the present situation of society. Everything else would be playing down the brutalities that are taking place right here; right now.

Against the fortress Europe and its fans!
Abolish capitalism! Nationalism is no alternative!

First step – fight back:

Build the radical left

Never let the fascists have the streets!