Author: Radikale Linke

Saturday 21. June 2025 19:00
Tüwi, Peter-Jordan-Straße 76 – 1190 Vienna
(Afterwards: Soliparty with concerts)

On November 3, 2024, a roof collapsed in Novi Sad. 16 people died. This was followed by the biggest protest movement in Serbia since 1968. Corrupt structures in Serbian society were soon identified as the cause of the tragedy. Universities have already been striking for months, and the movement is strongly supported by wide parts of Serbian society. The mass demonstrations are led by students, are not tied to any political parties and operate without clear leading figures.

What are the driving forces of the movement? What in the recent history led to these protests? What is their political agenda? How does Aleksandar Vučić’s regime respond? What role does the serbian Left – in and out of the parliament – play?
Is it a revolution?

In a discussion we want to summarize and contextualize the protests so far. Furthermore, we want to examine emancipatory potentials of the movement.
Therefore we invited:
A comrade from Antipolitika, the anarchist journal from the Balkans and
Siniša Cvetić: film director, student, activist and anarchist from Beograd. Took part in blockades of universities in 2014 and 2024/2025.

After the discussion there will be a soli party with concerts for those affected by repression in Graz
(Gibt es da einen Link dazu?)

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Revolucija v Srbiji?!
Panelna razprava: Uvrstitev protestnega gibanja v Srbiji
Sobota, 21. junij 2025 ob 19:00
Tüwi, Peter-Jordan-Straße 76 – 1190 Dunaj
(Po dogodku: soli-fešta s koncerti)

3. novembra 2024 se je v Novem Sadu zrušila streha. Umrlo je 16 ljudi. Sledilo je največje protestno gibanje v Srbiji po letu 1968. Kmalu so kot vzrok za tragedijo prepoznali korumpirane strukture srbske družbe. Univerze so že več mesecev v stavki, gibanje pa podpira širok del družbe. Množične demonstracije niso povezane s političnimi strankami, vodijo jih študentke*i in nimajo jasnih voditeljic*ev.

Kaj je gonilo tega gibanja? Kakšno vlogo igra nedavna zgodovina? Kakšna je politična agenda protestov? Kako se odziva Vučićev režim? Kakšno vlogo ima srbska levica v parlamentu in zunaj njega?
Je to revolucija?

Namen te razprave je povzeti dosedanje dogajanje in ga umestiti v širši kontekst. Poleg tega želimo raziskati emancipatorni potencial gibanja.
Z nami bodo:
Tovariš*ica od “Antipolitika”, anarhističnega časopisa z Balkana in
Siniša Cvetić: režiser, študent, aktivist in anarhist iz Beograda. Sodeloval je pri blokadah univerz leta 2014 in 2024/2025.

Prireditev bo potekal v angleščini.

Po razpravi bo soli-fešta s koncerti za judi, ki jih je prizadela represija v Gradcu.

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Revolucija u Srbiji?!
Panel diskusija: Kako razumeti protestni pokret u Srbiji
Subota, 21. jun 2025. u 19:00
Tüwi, Peter-Jordan-Straße 76 – 1190 Beč
(Nakon toga: Soli-Party s koncertima)

3. novembra 2024. srušio se krov u Novom Sadu. Poginulo je 16 osoba. Usledio je najveći protestni pokret u Srbiji od 1968. godine. Korumpirane strukture u društvu brzo su označene kao glavni uzrok tragedije. Univerziteti su već mesecima u štrajku, a pokret ima podršku širokih slojeva društva. Protesti koje predvode studenti nisu povezani sa političkim partijama i nemaju jasne vodeće figure.
Koje su pokretačke snage ovog pokreta? Šta je u novijoj istoriji dovelo do protesta? Koji su politički ciljevi? Kako režim Aleksandra Vučića reaguje? Koju ulogu igra srpska levica – unutar i van parlamenta?
Da li je ovo revolucija?

Na diskusiji želimo sumirati dosadašnja dešavanja i postaviti ih u širi kontekst. Takođe želimo ispitati emancipatorski potencijal pokreta.

Gosti:
Drugarica iz Antipolitika, anarhističkog časopisa sa Balkana i
Siniša Cvetić: reditelj, student, aktivista i anarhista iz Beograda. Učestvovao u blokadama univerziteta 2014. i 2024/2025.

Rasprava će biti vođena na engleskom.

Nakon diskusije: Soli-Party sa koncertima u znak podrške onima pogođenima represijom u Gracu.

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Revolution in Serbien?!
Podiumsdiskussion: Einordnung der Protestbewegung in Serbien
Samstag, 21. Juni 2025, 19:00 Uhr
Tüwi, Peter-Jordan-Straße 76 – 1190 Wien
(Anschließend: Soliparty mit Konzerten)

Am 3. November 2024 stürzte in Novi Sad ein Dach ein. 16 Menschen starben. Es folgte die größte Protestbewegung in Serbien seit 1968. Korruption und verkrustete Strukturen in der serbischen Gesellschaft wurden schnell als Ursachen erkannt. Universitäten streiken seit Monaten, ein breites gesellschaftliches Bündnis trägt die Proteste. Die Demonstrationen werden von Studierenden angeführt, sind parteiunabhängig und agieren ohne eindeutige Führungspersonen.
Was treibt die Bewegung an? Welche Entwicklungen der jüngeren Geschichte führten zu den Protesten? Was ist ihre politische Agenda? Wie reagiert das Regime um Aleksandar Vučić? Welche Rolle spielt die serbische Linke – innerhalb und außerhalb des Parlaments?
Ist das eine Revolution?

In der Diskussion wollen wir die bisherigen Entwicklungen zusammenfassen und kontextualisieren. Außerdem wollen wir emanzipatorische Potenziale der Bewegung herausarbeiten.
Dazu eingeladen sind:
Ein:e Genoss:in von Antipolitika, der anarchistischen Zeitschrift vom Balkan und
Siniša Cvetić: Filmemacher, Student, Aktivist und Anarchist aus Belgrad. Beteiligt an Uni-Blockaden 2014 und 2024/2025.

Die Veranstaltung wird in englischer Sprache abgehalten.

Nach der Diskussion: Soliparty mit Konzerten für von Repression betroffene Personen aus Graz.

On 1 May 1999, three police officers of the Republic of Austria taped Marcus Omofuma’s mouth and nose shut during his deportation on a flight from Vienna to Sofia, tied him to his seat with adhesive tape and tied his chest shut, denying him to breath and thus taking his life.

In memory of Marcus Omofuma and all victims of deportations and racist police violence, we will gather on 1 May 2024 at the Marcus Omofuma Memorial at Platz der Menschenrechte – a place that was fought for by activists from the African community together with artists in solidarity.

Even after 25 years, we demand an end to impunity for the murderers and an end to deportations and racist police violence, as a step towards a future without oppression, inequality and racism!

For centuries the question of whom the city belongs to has been relevant. Now, in times of unaffordable rent prices and the dominance of private investors in the housing market, it has become increasingly urgent. Simultaneously almost all public spaces are being commercialized, alternative urban planning and non-commercial spaces experience push backs and marginalized people are pushed out of the cities. The proclaimed “right to the city” does not only raise questions of ownership. It also calls for a different life, away from cities, capital and the patriarchy, away from authority and exclusion.

Especially migrants -the recruitment agreement (Gastarbeiterabkommen) between Turkey and Austria is nearing 60 years this May- experience this exclusion daily. They endure precarious conditions in the work place and private life. They are forced to live in mold-infested apartments without heating or electrity, as people right now at Gaudenzdorfer Gürtel in Vienna. The established unions and social democratic parties have never offered any meaningful help, instead migrants and guest workers autonomously organized themselves and fought against their precarious situation. For resisting in turn they experienced heavy police repression, even losing their jobs at times.

Today it’s primarily illegal migrants, who are are exploited by their bosses without any way to legally resist. As workers during harvest on plantations, cleaners or care workers in hospitals and private homes they constantly experience racism from the white majority. How dangerous, even deadly this racism can be, is examplified by the murder of Marcus Omofuma who was killed on Mai 1st 1999 by austrian police.

In memory of him and all others who have been murdered and harassed by police, we will continue the fight for liberation. We resist against the exclusion and answer with solidarity against the state, capital, nation and the patriarchy. For these perspectives we will march the streets on May 1st. The city for us all!

Demo against GEAS on April 10th at 6pm @Votivpark

On April 10, the EU Parliament will cast its final vote on the reform of the “Common European Asylum System” (“CEAS”). What is being glossed over as a “reform” is ultimately paving the way to largely undermine the individual right to asylum. Among other things, systematic de facto detention of people on the run through so-called “border procedures”, the legalization of pushbacks to supposedly “safe third countries”, the tightening of the Dublin system as well as special provisions through the Crisis Regulation, etc. are being decided. People seeking protection and people on the move are already being subjected to systematic violence by the European border and migration regime. Be it through the support of authoritarian regimes in “migration defence”, the criminalization of sea rescue, pushbacks along flight routes, chain deportations or incarceration in detention centres. With the “reform”, the EU is cementing a policy that it has been pursuing for a long time: Practices that violate human rights are being legalized and the criminalization of migration is being further normalized.

In solidarity with all those affected by these violations of rights, we will take a stand against this racist policy on April 10 at 6pm @Votivpark, 1090 Vienna and say: Brick by brick, wall by wall, make the fortress europe fall!

Write to us at gegengipfel_abolishpolice@riseup.net

The protests against the 100th anniversary celebrations of the international police organization Interpol are now a week behind us. Despite the cold and snow, we were loudly on the streets together and spent two days together in a far too cold room at the counter-conference, listened to many exciting lectures, discussed with each other in workshops, went to a film screening, a book presentation and a city walk.

At this point, we just wanted to say thank you: thank you to everyone who helped so much, thank you to everyone who was there. Of course, we also know that we could have done a lot better. And that’s why honest criticism and suggestions for improvement for future campaigns are very important to us. Feel free to write to us at gegengipfel_abolishpolice@riseup.net. We look forward to any feedback!

Demonstration I FR, 01.12.23 I 17.30 h

Substantive counter-conference I SA+SO I 02.-03.12.23

You need a place to sleep? You have a place to sleep? Write to us at abolish-police@riseup.net

The protests against the Interpol conference in Vienna are approaching. The more we can learn from different perspectives and experiences, the more promising our protests and counter-conference will be. It is therefore very important to us to enable as many comrades as possible from outside Vienna to participate. We are therefore organizing a bed exchange. We are dependent on you for this!

We need the support of all comrades in Vienna. So if you live in Vienna and can offer one or more places to sleep, please contact us as soon as possible at abolish-police@riseup.net

We need to know the following things about you:

1. (nick)name

2. address

3. telephone number

4. number of sleeping places to be offered

5. possible period (please at least 2 nights)

6. preference for gender? FLINT-only?

7. type(s) of sleeping facility(ies)? Yoga mat, couch, bed?

8. is there a separate room? (Yes/No)

9. allergies: Are there any allergy-causing creatures or things? (cat hair, gluten etc.)

10. is there barrier-free access, accessibility with a wheelchair, crutches?

If you want to travel and need one or more places to sleep for the weekend in Vienna, please also contact us at abolish-police@riseup.net

We need to know the following things about you:

1. (nick)name

2. telephone number or contact details

3. number of sleeping places required

4. number of days, approximate time of arrival and departure.

5. if more than one: Do people necessarily want to reside in the same place?

6. preference for gender? FLINT-only?

7. need for a separate, locked room?

8. allergies (e.g. cat hair, gluten etc.)?

9. barrier-free access, accessibility with wheelchair, crutches etc. required?

For years, the same sad spectacle repeats itself in regular intervals: as soon as the so-called “Middle East conflict” escalates, so does antisemitism on the streets of Vienna. Led by associations whose sole purpose is to wipe out the only Jewish state, an alliance of “left-wing” anti-imperialists, Islamist fundamentalists, neo-Nazis and Turkish right-wing extremists is formed, who see that an opportune moment has come to finally deal the death blow to the hated “Zionist entity”. The anti-zionist agitation against Israel is not just a criticism of the state and the nation. Quite the contrary. Not coincidentally, does it project all the atrocities of modern statehood only on the one single Jewish state, which serves as an anti-semitic object of projection to distinguish good from evil rule, instead of wanting to abolish all oppression.

Those who claim “Palestine solidarity” are not concerned with the liberation of Palestinian civilians from the conditions in which humans are degraded, enslaved and abandoned. Rather, they replicate this bondage in the name of “national liberation” or trivialize Islamist terror as anti-colonial resistance. The supposed commitment against the suffering and for the rights of the Palestinians is only put forward as long as it can be used as an accusation against Israel. And thus, in these circles, people like to keep silent about the inhumane practices of Hamas or the Palestinian Authority against their own population. Silence is kept about the suffering of those who are held in tent cities for generations as refugees without rights and as bargaining chips against Israel. Silence is kept about the other Nakba, the expulsion of 450,000 Palestinians from Kuwait in 1991, in revenge for the PLO’s commitment to the mass murderer Saddam Hussein. Silence is kept about the situation of the Palestinians in Jordan or Lebanon, who have to live there under inhumane conditions. Silence is kept about the instrumentalization of Palestinian suffering by reactionary movements and regimes like Turkey, Iran or Syria. These movements feed on the imagined cohesion against “the Jewish oppressor” and in the same breath express fantasies of extermination against other minorities, such as Êzidis, Alevis, Armenians and Kurds.

What happened in Israel on Saturday, October 7, was the worst attack on Jewish life since the Shoah. Since then, never have so many Jews been murdered in one day as on this Saturday. The murderers proudly filmed their acts and in some cases broadcast them via livestream. People were shot en masse, raped, abducted. Families were tortured and murdered along with their children. What transpired on that Saturday was an anti-semitic pogrom. Hamas has put into practice what it has formulated as its political program for decades: The destruction of Jewish life.

It demonstrated to us what the destruction of Israel would mean: The end of Jewish life in the Middle East. This pogrom was significantly financed by the Iranian Mullah regime and its allies. What began in Germany and Austria as National Socialist work of extermination finds its continuation as eleminatory anti-semitism in the charter of Hamas, the anti-Semitic conspiracy theories circulating everywhere and the threats of extermination of the Iranian regime against Israel. The massacre in southern Israel was as if the darkest epoch in human history had reached across time into the present and torn people out of it.

The ideology behind it is wreaking its bloody havoc throughout the region; in addition to minorities, it is primarily women and queer people who are the first to suffer. They are victims without a lobby who attract the punishment and persecution of those who choose to subordinate themselves to God or fatherland. We witness it in Iran, where protests of people fighting for their freedom and against the terror of the guidance patrol, patriarchy and oppression are bloodily suppressed. We witness it in Afghanistan, where under the renewed terror-reign perpetrated by the Taliban any emancipation is nipped in the bud. But we also witness it in Gaza, where Hamas is in power, where any emancipatory organizing, like those in unions or as social protests, are brutally crushed. Where thousands of civilians are now dying in a war that the reactionary rulers in the Middle East are keeping alive because pointing the finger at Israel serves to maintain their power.

In solidarity with all the people who are fighting for real liberation in the Middle East and around the world, we want to march on Saturday. Our thoughts are with all those who were murdered or abducted, with their relatives and friends, with Jews in Europe and elsewhere, who now have to fear that the wave of anti-semitic violence will spread here as well. Our thoughts are with those people in Gaza who find themselves in a situation not of their own choosing, who are exposed to the military strikes of the Israeli army as well as the terror of the Islamist rulers.

Our thoughts are with all those who are now affected by racism and violence. For it is precisely those states in Europe that demand more deportations and police after Islamist attacks, that at the same time profit from trade with Islamist regimes externalizing their own anti-Semitism and projecting it onto migrants. No matter how irreconcilable European right-wing extremism and Islamism may seem, they are two sides of the same coin and they feed on the racist division produced by the dominant discourse.

Our thoughts are also with the people in Rojava, who are currently exposed to the war of aggression of the Turkish regime, a close ally of Hamas, far away from all media publicity.

Our solidarity goes exactly to those who stand up for life and against death, who wish for a world without violence, without domination, coercion and oppression, without anti-semitism, racism, nationalism and islamism – whether in Israel, Palestine or elsewhere! Because, as the feminist revolution in Iran has already shown us: Freedom is not Eastern or Western, but universal!

In November 2023, the international police organization Interpol will hold a General Assembly in Vienna to mark its 100th anniversary. Police and government leaders from 195 member states – a total of over 1,500 representatives – want to celebrate this anniversary. For us – a broad alliance of civil society and left-wing organizations and groups – however, this is no reason to celebrate, quite the contrary.

Already united in anti-communism, anti-Semitism, anti-gypsyism and racism in 1923, the agency continued to exist under the leadership of the Austrofascist regime. Under Nazism, Interpol sat in the house of the later Wannsee Conference; the agency was presided over by Reinhard Heydrich, Arthur Nebe, and Ernst Kaltenbrunner, all high-ranking Nazi war criminals. Even after the end of World War II, Interpol was still led by former Nazis. Today, Interpol -officially an association that has never been ratified by a parliament, an association that receives millions in funding from organizations such as FIFA, the tobacco company Philip Morris, and a host of pharmaceutical companies- is at the forefront of international repression. Interpol assists national police forces in prosecuting political activists. Many countries rely on the agency to prosecute political opponents: Turkey against Kurdish structures, Bahrain against investigative journalists, but also Austria, Germany other European countries against left-wing activists.

We want a completely different world. We want to discuss and reflect on alternatives to Interpol and the police in general. We want to fight for this completely different world with events, lectures, rallies and demonstrations about security in public space, the authoritarian character of the police, about harassment and violence against homeless people, about increasing repression against climate activists, about a feminist critique of the institution police and much more. More info -on events and everything else- soon at: https://linktr.ee/abolish_police

📣 Talk and discussion with persons that each are or were active in AKC Metelkova, Autonomous Factory Rog and PLAC (Participatory Ljubljana Autonomous Zone)

The squats of Metelkova (1993), Rog (2006) and PLAC (2022) mark three decades of autonomous struggles for self-organized cultural and social spaces in the center of Ljubljana. While Metelkova still exists without any legal status, gentrification thrived under the right wing government of Janez Janša and mayor Zoran Janković who got Rog evicted in the midst of a pandemic in January 2021. Solving and addressing social struggles requires spaces to organize. Therefore, people from different generations and social movements started a squat in an abandoned former workers cafeteria in September 2022 to organize collectively and build up a social space for themselves and the neighborhood.

How are these different squats and struggles linked to each other? Which collective forms of communal organization can emerge? What conflicts and failures can we learn from?
These are just some questions we want to take a look at with our friends and comrades from Ljubljana.

💬 The talk will be in English and Slovene with German whisper translation.

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🏭 Metelkova, Rog, PLAC – antigentrifikacijski boji in avtonomni prostori v Ljubljani

🗓️ Sobota, 3. december

📍 KSŠŠD, Mondscheingasse 11, 1070 Wien

📣 Pogovor in diskusija z osebami, ki so ali so bile aktivne v AKC Metelkova, Avtonomni tovarni Rog in v PLAC-u (Participativna ljubljanska avtonomna cona)

Skvoti Metelkova (1993), Rog (2006) in PLAC (2022) zaznamujejo tri desetletja avtonomnih bojev za samoorganizirane kulturne in družbene prostore v središču Ljubljane. Medtem ko Metelkova še vedno obstaja brez kakršnegakoli pravnega statusa, je gentrifikacija cvetela pod desno vlado Janeza Janše in županovanjem Zorana Jankovića, zaradi katerega so Rog izselili sredi pandemije januarja 2021. Grajenje družbenih bojev zahteva prostore, v katerih se lahko skupnosti avtonomno organizirajo. Zato so ljudje iz različnih generacij in družbenih gibanj septembra 2022 ustanovili skvot v zapuščeni nekdanji delavski menzi, da bi skupaj zgradili družabni prostor zase in za sosesko.

Kako so ti različni skvoti in borbe povezani med seboj? Katere kolektivne oblike družbene organizacije lahko nastanejo? Iz katerih konfliktov in neuspehov se lahko učimo?
To je le nekaj vprašanj, ki jih želimo predebatirati z našimi tovariši iz Ljubljane.

💬 Pogovor bo potekal v angleškem in slovenskem jeziku z nemškim šepetanim prevodom.

The Yugoslav state founded after the end of World War II was an attempt to create an egalitarian and democratic society. Already in 1948, Yugoslavia broke with the Soviet model and Stalinism and oriented itself towards the goal of workers’ self-government and the concept of the death of the state.
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With this reorientation of society and economy, the Yugoslav state saw itself on the safe side when it came to the issue of gender equality: thus, the Yugoslav state thought it had already solved the “women’s question” in the mid-1950s and had achieved gender equality. However, this was not reflected in the real social conditions such as the division of labour and the occupation of leadership positions. The goals set with regard to gender equality were not achieved. A few years later, the ruling communist party realised its failure. However, this realisation remained inconsequential.
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This upcoming event will focus on the history of the socialist state of Yugoslavia with a feminist perspective and a focus on women politics of the ruling communist party.
We want to cover the beginnings of the socialist state and the feminist movements within it, the theoretical context of Yugoslav gender and labor related politics from 1945 until 1991 and also discuss the implications of the history for the feminist movements in the region today.
Therefore we invited comrades from antipolitika, an anarchist journal from the Balkans (https://antipolitika.noblogs.org/) and an ex-member of fAKTIV, a feminist collective from Zagreb, to draw possible lessons for emancipatory politics.

Winners of the crisis?

Since 1890, May Day has stood for the worldwide connection of all workers and wage dependents. The basis for this was the realisation that, together with the vast majority of humanity, we are on the side of the losers, in other words, we are exploited and cannot live our lives in dignity and self-determination. This gave rise to political optimism, strength for social struggles that improved all our lives (universal voting rights, holiday rights, health insurance, reduction of working hours, etc.). Today, on the other hand, many workers think: “I’m one of the winners, I’m still doing better in comparison!

no future?

But where does the current bad attitude come from, the real feeling that everything is becoming more expensive, more corrupt, more exhausting, more incomprehensible? The progress optimism of the 1970s: “We are all doing well” became: “at least many” became: “at least me and my family”. Why? Because we have come to fear that soon only a few will be doing well.

When everyone is running around frantically to keep up their class, it becomes uncomfortable! First, some acquaintances, some friends, and next, perhaps, you yourself, come under the wheels. Social inequality increases dramatically. Central social promises can no longer be kept and collective dreams are shattered. Imagining the end of the world now seems more realistic than a better future: key words: climate catastrophe, pandemics, new global conflicts and wars, economic crises and hyperinflation.

Spirit of May Day!

In the midst of fear we cannot think clearly. The spirit of May Day is the antidote. May Day stands for the simple that is hard to do – for a global alternative of solidarity: the classless world society. When utopias die, dystopias take their place. Let’s be honest, in which film that has become real would you want to be in? Zombie apocalypse or love story?

Let’s look at positive developments: In the home office, we don’t miss the office and want more free time with full pay. We are worth it! When it comes to pushing overtime, we don’t care about the appreciative clapping. We want sustainable working conditions or we want to quit! Unemployment has lost the stigma of self-infliction. We allow ourselves to have it (if we have acces towards unemployment payment)! Instagram, twitter or tic toc are no compensation for real contacts, they make us more nervous and dissatisfied. We need human empathy! In lockdown we go out into nature because our flats are too expensive, too small. We demand affordable housing and an intact environment!

Real utopia!

After two years of pandemic we see many things more clearly, now it is time to become active. In Vienna, resistance is rising against the capitulation to the climate crisis, against the elbow war of individuals, against armament and war. For a better life for all!

All over the world, many people take to the streets together on 1 May. The diversity of concerns is not a weakness but our strength. We share the same horizon. Maybe also with you? Courage for utopia! Because things will not stay the way they are. Exchange ideas, ask questions, organize yourself. In solidarity through the crises, towards a better world!

Rouvikonas, an anarchist group from Athens, tries since some years to contribute to the social struggle by direct actions with high medial attention and solidarity work. One member will speak about the political situation in Greece as well as the social movement. Also, he will locate Rouvikonas in this repressive environment and the struggles against it. Additionally, a sequence about Rouvikonas of the Film L’Amour et la Révolution (Love and Revolution) will be shown. This film from 2018 shows multiple selforganized projects and political groups in Greece.

The talk will be in English. Afterwards there will be time and possibility to have a drink together. Please note the Covid-measures, come vaccinated and if possible tested too.

Donations can be made against the repression Rouvikonas is facing at the evening or via bank transfer until 31st of October to the account of Rote Hilfe Wien:
Rote Hilfe Wien
IBAN: AT46 6000 0103 1036 9883
BIC: BAWAATWW
Reference: Athen

Never let the fascists have the fields!

On the 18th of May, the Ustaša meeting will once again take place in Bleiburg / Pliberk (Southern Carinthia). Officially, it is considered a religious commemoration event – in fact, (neo)fascists are gathering there to mourn the Ustaša state (NDH), an ally of Nazi Germany.

The participants of the Ustaša meeting stick to a narrative according to which fleeing Ustaša and Croats had become victims of the Partisans and the Allies in Bleiburg during the liberation of Carinthia in 1945. They draw upon the myth of a massacre at Loibacher field / Libuško polje, which has historically not been confirmed, but has been cultivated through publications by the ex-Croatian communities after 1945. There are however records of casualties and of wounded during the last battles around Bleiburg / Pliberk and suicides on said Loibacher field / Libuško polje.

The meeting, with around 15,000 attending fascists every year, is one of the largest right-wing extremist gatherings in Europe! That’s why we have to take to the streets to show that right-wing extremism and historical revisionism should have no place in society.
For more information we recommend the blog www.no-ustasa.at.

To show our resistance, we call for a demonstration on 18.05! Meeting point is at 09:00 at the station forecourt Bleiburg (Land).

P.S.: For arrivals from Vienna, please contact us at the following e-mail address: busauswien@riseup.net

We recommend travelling together no matter where you come from, meet up and get active!

For further information please contact us at: radikale-linke@riseup.net

Current developments and news about the protests against the Ustaša meeting will be posted on Facebook at www.facebook.com/RadikaleLinke

We are witnessing a diffuse interaction of economics, national security and social upheavals in Austria and Europe. Our time is shaped by phenomena which can be described as an expression of uncertainty – the crisis ladden developments of capitalism are becoming ever more apparent. The easy answer of many people to these developments is the longing and desire for a “strong leader” which should bring about stability. “Rather less freedom than chaos” is the commonly accepted notion.
This desire is activated and accelarated by many different sides, the authoritarians are in the offence: no matter if FPÖ, “Bloc Identitaire”, Turkish or Polish nationalists, islamistic and jihadi groups: they all promise a different political order meaning an uncompromising governing for their own “nation”, respectively. This “nation” is defined along the lines of nationality, ethnicity and/or religion.
The activation and acceleration of this desire is also due to the government: we are witnessing a normalization of political demands which used to be occupied by right-wingers. Not only the tightening of national security policies, massive surveillance, the reduction to the point of abolition of the right to seek refuge, but also the general authoritarian worsening of governmental action is mostly, if not being applauded, at least accepted as a new kind of normality.

In times of an obvious crisis, refugees – and others, which are not perceived as part of the national community – have to serve as the originators of societal problems. And when “foreigners” are made responsible and blamed for everything, the state is called upon as a protector of the national community.
But the state cannot prevent crises in capitalism from arising. It will not save us, because the state is part of the problem/issue/calamity. And it uses its force and authority, through laws, increasing armament and intimidation, if its legitimacy is challenged in crises ladden times. It needs to distract from its obvious helplessness in the face of global economic developments.
Antisexist, antiracist and antifascist fights continue to be necessary, but our critique needs to start at the root of the problem. Patriarchal capitalism as a complex system, which influences many different areas of all of our lives and regulates the rules of our daily interactions, must be attacked. The values of our inhumane achievement-oriented society are so extremely deeply rooted that it’s almost impossible to imagine a different practical experience let alone the possibility of a different society.

The campaign ” Escape the lethargy/helplessness/impotence” wants to encourage and mobilize everyone to organize activities and events against capitalism, the state and its authoritarian forming. If we want to escape the rat race of lethargy/helplessness/impotence, the continuous battles of defence, increasing isolation, separation and marginalization, we need a broad and strong radical left, capable of acting! Only if we organize ourselves and express our critique in actions and words transparently and comprehensibly, make it accessible to people and thus grow as a radical left, is change conceivable.

For a great life for everyone!

On the last weekend of October, in Linz the Congress “Defenders of Europe” takes place in the Redoutensäle rented by the state of Upper Austria. The congress is officially organized by the platform unzensuriert.at and the magazine InfoDirekt. Organizationally, the meeting closes directly to the right-wing extremist “Zwischentag” in Germany. The meeting in Linz brings together the current organizations and publications of German-speaking right-wing extremism (IfS, Sezession, Ares-Verlag, and many more). This group is supplemented by established elites from the field of national right-wing extremism as well as high-ranking parliamentary representatives of right-wing parties. The “Identitäre Bewegung” plays a major role, with which almost all the exhibitors are linked directly at the conference (Phalanx Europa, Wolf PMS). The conference in Linz is also distinguished by important organizers of the international networking and financing of current extreme rights in the international sphere (one percent, Natalie Holzmüller). The meeting in Linz is the largest right-wing event of its kind in the German-speaking world. It is also one of the largest, most important and also most publicly held meetings in Austria in recent years.