On the 25th of October the so called “Hooligans against Salafists” want to return to Cologne. Anti-fascist and anti-racist groups call for massive actions against against the march and in the light of the escalation of racism in Germany and the ongoing fortification of the EU also call for anti-racist demonstration on the day before the actions agains the nazis.

Let’s stop them now!

Organise the defence against right­wing mobs – let’s break (off) with racist normality!

by Antifa AK Cologne (…umsGanze!)

We share the anger and fear that austerity and crisis make us feel with hundreds of thousands of people throughout Europe, beyond all borders. Therefore, we feel aligned with all those who place the responsibility for these conditions at the feet of the racist, sexist, authoritarian and capitalist engine of this society. Yet in all countries anger & hate forge ahead in reactionary ways, driven by a policy of fear and a lack of alternatives – in newspapers, in the streets and in parliament. The hatred of the misanthropes – reaching from the right­wing parties in France and Hungary, fascist structures in Greece and Italy to right-wing populists and neo­-nazis in Germany and the Netherlands – is directed against the same people everywhere, over and over again.

In the past year, the ­“Hooligans Against Salafists“ (HoGeSa) has become a particular talking point in Germany. It attempts to disguise its “völkisch” racism as a would­be opposition. Roughly 4.000 neo­Nazis and right­wing hooligans rampaged through the city of Cologne in October 2014, attacking everything that didn’t fit their mould. Accompanied by “PEGIDA” (Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the Occident), there has been a massive increase in violent assaults and attacks by Nazis and other racists in Germany since October in Cologne.

However HoGeSa didn’t come out of nowhere. It is merely a strengthening and a co-ordinating of already existing right­wing male bonds. The racist violence is supported by the tightening of asylum laws and the calculated mass murder at the external borders of a Europe under German supremacy. There isn’t even a need for a racist mob to partition off migrating people in a Europe with walls of barb wire and an army just waiting for the firing order at the Hungarian borders.

Right now, Germany declares itself as an open and welcoming country for refugees from Syria. But while Refugees from Syria are welcomed at German train stations, others are declared as economic refugees, who are accused of only draining the German social system. With this division, people are separated by their perceived usefulness for the German national economy. The consequence is a further tightening of asylum laws. Most of these target Roma and Sinti people. The states, from which they fled to escape the prejudices against them, are declared as “safe” countries to which they are sent back. All this is happening under the sign of the “Willkommenskultur”.

There has to be a stout answer against the right­-wing formation in European streets and parliaments! The march of Neonazis and Fascists has to be stopped! The racist status quo must be attacked! There are many possibilities: One of these possibilities is the protest against HoGeSa, who want to repeat their racist march in Cologne on October 25th.

Join us on the street!

24./25. October: Cologne, Germany:

Anti­racist demonstration and the blockadeing of the right­-wing hooligan march.

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