Dresden: 20,000 anti-fascists against Nazis

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 21/02/2011 - 12:55pm

Mounting many varied blockading actions, 20,000 anti-fascists from all over Germany and other European countries prevented a planned large-scale Nazi march in Dresden on Saturday 19 February.

There were massive clashes with police acting extremely brutally. They attacked the blockers with batons, pepper spray, water cannons, armoured vehicles and newly acquired pepperball guns. Several people were seriously injured.

But the brutal police violence didn’t stop the broad spectrum of activists who’d travelled to Dresden from making its centre impassable for the fascists.

In addition to mass squats, in the old quarter there were also many barricades.
Only about 2,000 fascists of both sexes had dared to go to Dresden and failed with every attempt to carry out demonstrations.

Even a spontaneously demonstration called by them in nearby Leipzig ended on the rails of its main railway station before it even began.

All in all a very successful day for the anti-fascist movement in Germany.
Naturally not everyone is happy about that.

While the Nazis are sulking, the Saxony police are also proving sore losers and on Saturday stormed the press office of the “Dresden Nazi-free” alliance.

The alliance people present were forced to strip naked and submit to a registration of personal data.

Information available so far is that they’ll be charged with conspiracy and public incitement to criminal acts as well as breaches of public order.

The raiding police took all computers and storage media. That has led so far to 79 arrests of anti-fascists.

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Comments

So much for free speech

Permalink Submitted by Aaron (not verified) on Mon, 21/02/2011 - 4:23pm

So much for free speech if anti-fascist dont agree with you they try to stop you right to demonstrate.
Does this make the anti-fascist, fascist?!!!!!!

No platform for fascists!

Permalink Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 22/02/2011 - 1:24pm

No it does not make them fascists.

The world has had enough of fascist and authoritarian regimes.

So when a bunch of people decide they want to propagate the horrific ideas that our grand parents generation fought a world war to stop, it is justified to get up and have a counter protest.

Fuck the Nazis. Fuck fascists.

Re: No platform for fascists!

Permalink Submitted by Rodney (not verified) on Fri, 25/02/2011 - 11:51pm

Rudolf Hess went England during WW2 to try to stop the war but Churchill did not wont to stop so they locked Hess up in gaol until he died at age 93 they would not let him out incase he told the world who realy wanted the war

Fuck you and all who look like you.