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Groups of masked protesters confronted police during the afternoon, throwing bottles, stones, fireworks and other projectiles. Officers responded with tear gas and water cannon as tensions escalated. A vehicle caught fire close to the protest route, several buildings were reportedly damaged and authorities ordered demonstrators to disperse as unrest spread through parts of the city. The violence followed a march that had begun peacefully under intense summer heat. Organisers brought together environmental campaigners, feminist groups, supporters of Palestinian rights and anti-globalisation activists to protest against #G7 policies and call for social and environmental reforms. According to #Geneva police, around 20,000 people took part in the rally, making it one of the largest demonstrations seen in #Switzerland in recent years.
https://www.africanews.com/2026/06/15/switzerland-clashes-in-geneva-as-20000-protest-g7-summit-and-global-policies/

#G7Summit #GenevaProtests #GlobalPolicies #PeacefulProtest #HumanRights #FightBack #antiNato #smashFortressEu #protest #ClassWar #environment

Groups of masked protesters confronted police during the afternoon, throwing bottles, stones, fireworks and other projectiles. Officers responded with tear gas and water cannon as tensions escalated. A vehicle caught fire close to the protest route, several buildings were reportedly damaged and authorities ordered demonstrators to disperse as unrest spread through parts of the city. The violence followed a march that had begun peacefully under intense summer heat. Organisers brought together environmental campaigners, feminist groups, supporters of Palestinian rights and anti-globalisation activists to protest against #G7 policies and call for social and environmental reforms. According to #Geneva police, around 20,000 people took part in the rally, making it one of the largest demonstrations seen in #Switzerland in recent years.
https://www.africanews.com/2026/06/15/switzerland-clashes-in-geneva-as-20000-protest-g7-summit-and-global-policies/

#G7Summit #GenevaProtests #GlobalPolicies #PeacefulProtest #HumanRights #FightBack #antiNato #smashFortressEu #protest #ClassWar #environment

PROTESTNI SHOD PROTI NATO SREČANJU V LJUBLJANI

Kongresni Trg, Ljubljana, Saturday, October 11 at 06:00 PM GMT+2

NEKOČ MESTO HEROJ, DANES GOSTI VOJNI STROJ

VSI NA PROTESTNI SHOD PROTI SREČANJU ZVEZE NATO V LJUBLJANI – PROTI VOJNI, ZA ŽIVLJENJE IN PRIHODNOST!

Od petka do ponedeljka bo skrito pred očmi javnosti in za policijskimi zaporami na Gospodarskem razstavišču v Ljubljani potekalo parlamentarno zasedanje zveze NATO.

NATO ostaja zastopnik in vojaško krilo interesov oblasti oziroma vladajočih sil z Zahoda, ki si podrejajo druge narode. Je branik režima dominacije, ki temelji na zatiranju in izkoriščanju večinskega dela sveta. Tudi danes je eden ključnih akterjev v globalnih vojaških spopadih, med drugim tudi partner v genocidu v Gazi, in kot tak nasprotnik interesov ljudi povsod po svetu.

Srečanje vojnih hujskačev in dobičkarjev v Ljubljani ne sme ostati brez odgovora! 

Zato pozivamo vse dele družbe, da se v soboto, 11. oktobra, ob 18. uri zberemo na Kongresnem trgu na samoorganiziranem protestnem shodu proti vojni, zvezi NATO in kapitalističnemu opustošenju.

NATO OKUPATOR, VEN IZ NAŠEGA MESTA!

https://koledar.kompot.si/event/protestni-shod-proti-nato-srecanju-v-ljubljani

1 fuck the police
2. europe is indifensible

3. MAKE AMERIKA
MⒶNIGNE AGAIN

4. FREE PALESTINE
5. fuck israel

6.MAKE FASCISTS AFRAID AGAIN

7. War is not a fatality
it's the filthy son
of NATO

8. war is here

#anticommercieleactiebeweging #brandalis #acab #freepalestine #antinato #resistnato

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20-26 juni
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France: Toulouse Métropole Vans Set on Fire Against NATO Base Expansion

Winter City Blues

On the night of December 13 to 14, three vans in Toulouse Métropole were set on fire in the Côte Pavée district.

We live with the cutting edge of war technology. The current choices are clear: to impose an arms industry and the expansion of NATO bases, and also to force a war economy where social precariousness will be the price to pay for the interests of the state.

The expansion of war to all aspects of life is indeed built here. Toulouse is at the top of the podium of war economy poles. An economy that we have made fit into our heads with propaganda and marketing. Western democracy must be saved from the barbarians elsewhere. War as an act of kindness to maintain our beautiful capitalist heritage.
Being twinned with Tel Aviv and hosting a NATO base from the summer of 2025 show the obvious interests of the Toulouse metropolis. To crush in blood any revolt against the capitalist project.

The debts that would justify the budget cuts are part of a very specific governance program. To go into debt in order to be able to restructure and impose increasingly severe social austerity. The budget cuts will have a strange impact on the social field and do not seem to call into question projects such as the third metro line, the Bordeaux-Toulouse high-speed line or an ever more violent security expansion.

The war has embedded everything, our capacities for opposition are still to be imagined.
Solidarity greetings to anyone who wants to listen.

Indymedia Lille, December 14, 2024

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=13134

#antiMilitarist #antiNato #DirectAction #europe #France #toulouse

Romanian Liberals back centrist presidential candidate after hard-right surge https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/romanian-liberals-back-centrist-presidential-candidate-after-hard-right-surge/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #antiNATO #CălinGeorgescu #ElenaLasconi #farright #PNL

Romanian Liberals back centrist presidential candidate after hard-right surge https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/romanian-liberals-back-centrist-presidential-candidate-after-hard-right-surge/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #antiNATO #CălinGeorgescu #ElenaLasconi #farright #PNL

Călin Georgescu, the far-right outsider who could be Romania’s new president https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/calin-georgescu-the-far-right-outsider-who-could-be-romanias-new-president/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #antiNATO #AUR #CălinGeorgescu #farright #Romanianelections

Călin Georgescu, the far-right outsider who could be Romania’s new president https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/calin-georgescu-the-far-right-outsider-who-could-be-romanias-new-president/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #antiNATO #AUR #CălinGeorgescu #farright #Romanianelections

Montréal, Canada: Pro-Palestine and Anti-NATO Demo

In downtown Montréal on Friday night, police repression descended on a pro-Palestinian and anti-NATO demonstration. During the day, a first rally had begun around 4:30 p.m. The procession then set off to join a second demonstration. The latter denounced in particular the presence of a NATO delegation at the Palais des Congrès.

The officers of the SPVM (Service de Police de la Ville de Montréal) decided to disperse the demonstrators using pepper spray, tear gas and baton blows; in response, smoke bombs were used by the demonstrators, metal barriers were thrown in order to hinder the work of the police. The police officers were also the target of pyrotechnic projectiles. Several shop windows and windows of the Palais des Congrès were smashed, a police car and two other vehicles were set on fire. About 80,000 people took advantage of Friday to strike and participate in the movement. The police made 3 arrests.

Source: Secours Rouge

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=12661

#antiNato #canada #demo #montreal #northAmerica #palestineSolidarity

Three Basque political prisoners, Garikoitz Etxeberria Goikoetxea, Jon Kepa Preciado Izarra and Mikel Sansebastian, offered to respond to this interview in order to make known their opinion on the situation in prisons since a large majority of detainees were regrouped in a few prisons in the Basque Country, but they also talk about the current situation in the Basque Country, of the advance of the right on a global scale and also of the Palestinian genocide and the war situation between Russia and Ukraine.

It should be noted that there are still just over a hundred Basque political prisoners in the prisons of both the south and north of the Basque Country. Many of them, like those interviewed here, have already spent several years in prison and in some cases have up to 10 and 15 more years of detention remaining.

● The Spanish regime has concentrated Basque political prisoners in a few prisons in the Basque Country. Has this meant an important change in terms of prison conditions?

On the one hand, all the political prisoners linked to the cycle of armed confrontation against the Spanish State who were dispersed in Spanish prisons are kidnapped in prisons located in the Basque Country, but on the other hand those who are in the French State are still outside our land, the men concentrated in a prison 300 km away and a comrade in a different one 900 km away. At one level, prison conditions have not changed much since the same system of punishment and submission is applied to all prisoners, without forgetting that we are still under the Spanish judicial system and ultimately it is in the National Court where we are decided.

On a day-to-day basis, let’s say that the level of harassment towards Basque political prisoners is lower and more bearable for us. In this new situation we are in conditions in which we are allowed to participate in sports, cultural, entertainment, study activities… that we had not had in previous years. On the other hand, the option of being able to get together with each other is something we enjoy today. As for our family and friends, they have us closer and now they have to invest less time, mileage, economic expenses and corresponding risks to come and see us. On the other hand, the number of visits and their duration is less than in the prisons from which we were transferred, so we are less with our relatives. Precisely the Basque regional government, which manages 3 of the 4 prisons where we are, is denying us the right to communicate with people that the government links to revolutionary sectors of the Basque Country. A situation that did not occur in the prisons of the Spanish State and demonstrates the repressive-ideological level of the Basque regional government. This government, applying an apartheid ratified by the National Court of Madrid in response to the judicial appeals that we have filed, is trying to prevent the relationship between the Basque political prisoners and the popular sectors most committed to the struggle for the national and social liberation of our land, in an attempt to silence them. In the face of this, both inside and outside prison, we have begun to mobilize in the face of this new violation of our rights.

● From your condition as prisoners for fighting, do you consider that this transfer and reunification in prisons in the Basque Country can be considered a small victory, taking into account that for years the slogan “Euskal Presoak Euskal Herrira” was used as “Basque prisoners in the Basque Country”, or does this phrase still have more validity in terms of “Amnesty”?

When we talk about dispersion, we are referring to one of the cruelest prison measures applied under the excuse of anti-terrorist policy. This consisted of the transfer and dispersion of political prisoners to different prisons in the Spanish State, later the French government also applied it. There were comrades imprisoned in the Balearic Islands and in the Canary Islands as well. It began to be applied at the end of the ’80s and has lasted three decades, it was created by a PSOE government with the collaboration of the PNV, and maintained during all these years by the different governments in power. With the dispersion they sought a kind of exile where our people would forget about us, we would lose that union with the people, we would be demoralized and we would abandon our ideals by embracing repentance. But it was our relatives who suffered the most from this policy since they never left us alone. There are countless kilometers traveled to go see us with the physical and economic consequences that this entails. We want to remember that this policy caused the death of 16 of our relatives and friends on the roads when they came to visit us.

“Euskal Presoak Euskal Herrira” was used in this context, based on the right of every prisoner to serve a sentence in the prison closest to their family and environment. Likewise, the demand for Total Amnesty was maintained, which is not only reduced to the freedom of political reprisals, but also demands the return of all political exiles and deportees, as well as the end of all types of repression and the total recovery of political rights and freedoms in the Basque Country, as we are an oppressed people. an essential step for overcoming this conflict through democratic and real solutions. However, the recent reunification has taken place after the EPPK (Collective of Basque Political Prisoners) abandoned all kinds of struggle in prisons, as well as the demand for amnesty, while adopting legal channels from the prison system of both oppressor states, and opting exclusively for individual ways to adhere to the aforementioned social “reintegration” and access “restorative justice” programs. It is also necessary to take into account the parliamentary context of the Spanish Congress, where the Basque political parties EH BILDU and PNV adhere to the PSOE government, without their collusion, they wouldn’t have given neither the transfer of jurisdiction of the prisons of the Basque Autonomous Community, nor our transfers. Therefore, the end of the dispersion has not come due to social pressure, just as the beginning of it has been a decision of the Spanish Government for its own interests and for the political context created, above all, after the disappearance of ETA, nothing to do with a popular victory. Moreover, there has been an effort on the part of the official Basque nationalist left to sell it as a victory, giving the false appearance of having resolved the issue of Basque political prisoners. This has been fueled by the disinformation and programmed demobilisation that the official Basque Nationalist Left has carried out in recent years in this regard, confusing a large part of Basque society.

As for the Amnesty, different sectors in the street and some political prisoners maintain the demand for Total Amnesty since we consider it as a strategic, inalienable and intrinsic position in the process of national and social liberation in the Basque Country, which is being carried out fighting against all kinds of oppression that we suffer as a people and working class.

● How do you analyze the changes that have been taking place in the Basque Country in recent years, taking into account that you inscribed your militant actions imagining achieving Independence and Socialism?

Euskal Herria [Basque Country] is a combative nation, we have spent our entire existence fighting for our rights in the different systems and regimes that have occupied our land and oppressed the majority of this people. Dozens of historical processes and countless generations have preceded us in this struggle and it is now up to us to adapt to the new context.

After the dissolution of a national liberation movement that had been underway since the 1950s, leaving us stranded as political prisoners, institutional social democracy was chosen from the official Abertzale [Basque nationalist] Left. A 180° turn that has led to a depoliticisation and de-ideologisation never before known in Basque society. The normalization and assimilation of oppression, which has not ceased to exist, by a large part of the Basque proletariat is palpable and we live it with great concern from prison. Basque social democracy is surrendered to the bourgeois institutions of the oppressive states of France and Spain. In the latter it plays its role as a crutch of the PSOE government. They try to convince us that by this path we will reach Independence, an unfeasible and false option from the very beginning.

As for Socialism, let us be self-critical and recognize that since the 1980s the class struggle has been abandoned here and therefore that demand has been emptied of content. The reformist social democracy, which called itself the heir of the MLNV (Basque National Liberation Movement), defends the interests of the so-called middle class and part of the Basque bourgeoisie. In this context, the new generations, who are the ones who suffer the worst conditions of the Basque working class, are giving the same or greater importance to the class struggle than to the national liberation struggle.

We have the tools and experience inherited from those who preceded us and one of our most important tasks is to increase and improve that legacy, that of those who fought for our strategic objectives and did not kneel before the oppressor. Each one has to face what one has to do without letting the flame of struggle be extinguished. Those of us who are currently on the front line have had to change the political cycle, we accept it and we know that the only non-negotiable thing is commitment and involvement in the struggle. This did not begin with us and it will not end with us. It will also be our responsibility to transmit our legacy to the new generations who are starting the new cycle. We will contribute our experience from self-criticism and we will be on the side of those who continue with the struggle.

● In recent years, some prisoners and various sectors of Basque society have adopted political-ideological definitions of communism. What does this proposal mean in the context of today’s Basque Country?

As we have said before, we have experienced an important change in the field of struggle, seeing the disappearance of everything that had been part of the life of several generations and of our contribution as a people and working class. This increased the degree of demobilization and demotivation already existing in the Basque proletariat. But the eagerness and need of this people to free themselves from all kinds of oppression has made (especially the new generations who did not live through the last decades) a commitment to organize themselves around a sincere and coherent commitment to the achievement of our objectives. And this has had to be outside the scope of the official Abertzale Left, which today is 100% dedicated to the institutional and reformist camp.

The mobilization and commitment around Communism is one of the bets that has been gaining strength in recent years, having prominence in different terrains where they develop an approach of class struggle to articulate in this way the socialist consciousness of the proletariat in our land. In the same way, another movement has also grown that recovers the concept of the Basque Working People based on internationalist national class consciousness with the strategic objective of Independence and Socialism in the Basque Country. To these structures is added the existence of different organizations that work in the field of anti-repression and defense of political prisoners, in the struggle against projects that destroy the earth and nature… and also the presence of many individual people who come from the previous cycle, where their commitment and contribution in different organizations and types of struggle was essential for the resistance and survival of the struggle of our people. People, like the militants of the movements that have emerged, who do not see in the strategy of the official Basque nationalist Left the forms, the discourses or the praxis necessary to face the challenges that we as a people and working class have in this new era. Let’s say that we have found ourselves at a crossroads, on the one hand social democracy/reformism, also involved in an anti-revolutionary drift, and on the other that of rupture. And it is in the rupture where we position ourselves.

The commitment of the new generations has attracted other sectors to this field, where we will try to promote and expand the class struggle to each of the forms of bourgeois power, to each of the styles of oppression. But the work and the task ahead of us are much deeper, it is about overcoming that degree of depoliticization and de-ideologization that exists among the working class.

The different sectors or movements that are in the option of struggle have coincided in different fields such as in the support of the Palestinian Resistance or in the demand for Total Amnesty, as well as in the mobilizations against multiple projects of Capital that destroy nature, the resources on our land and the lives of the majority of this people.

● What impact has this new reality that has emerged in the Basque Country had on prisons?

The EPPK has followed the path marked by the official Basque nationalist left and the only contributions they have made in more than a decade have been in that direction, feeding that reformist and institutional commitment. Most of the prisoners of this group have supported these ideological positions. On the other hand, as is happening in the streets, some imprisoned militants have not taken up this strategy and several of us have been out of the EPPK for years.

As far as we are concerned, well, for some time now we have been gathering our desire and ideas and contributing what we can in this context. We have published texts in reference to the International Day of the Political Prisoner and on Palestine, among other topics. We have joined the mobilizations organized by the platform “Elkaratasuna Palestinarekin” (Solidarity with Palestine) by fasting. Now, as we have mentioned before, we are immersed in responding to the Basque Government’s attack regarding the denial of visits to dozens of people, actions that are beginning to bear fruit.

Our objective is clear to recover the voice of the Basque political militants who are imprisoned and to be present again in the field of struggle, even more so in the current context, which we have already described above, where every contribution is necessary, valid and essential. We have to recognize that the commitment to the struggle of so many people in the streets of the Basque Country has helped us to make these decisions and to want to be part of all of them.

● What are the causes for not only Europe but also some important countries on other continents to turn to the extreme right and even strengthen fascist positions? What self-criticism should the left make in the face of such a position?

In the Basque Country we are no strangers to this rise of the extreme right, both in the north and in the south of our territory. This is within the development of capitalism, which takes the form of fascism, being an epidemic that infiltrates all aspects of life and shows its true face without complexes or ambiguities. In the face of this, the farce of the discourse of social democracy is not worth it, and even less so the game that is brought in the forums of bourgeois power such as the institutions. Racism, xenophobia, patriarchy… they are in the structures of the State and it does not matter which parties have a majority. The struggle to transform all this is in the hands of the political organizations that walk the streets, that are oppressed and criminalized by Capital and that are made up of people who are deprived of more and more rights and do not care who wins an election since they know very well that no real and integral solution will come from the bourgeois institutions

As for the self-criticism that the left should make, well, on the one hand there is that institutional left, which with a “progressive” discourse tries to give the image of anti-fascist, but always ends up creating and abiding by laws that are at least sterile against the attack of capitalism and leaves the proletariat at the feet of the horses and without hope. It is in this context that the misogynistic, homophobic and racist messages that fill the discourses of the extreme right, the slogan of “national priority”, as well as that much-worked image of hitting the established power, gain strength in different layers of society since they manage to attract all that mass that sees in these messages the solution to their personal problems. to their discontent and to the situations they see in the media, a very important part when it comes to promoting ideas and confusing consciences. That in popular neighborhoods or in areas devastated by the savage socioeconomic policies of capitalism this is an electoral option is worrying, but even more so that the fascist slogans they use are welcomed and adopted normally. This is what must be fought, the depth that this way of facing problems is reaching, seeing life and relationships between people who live in community and share the harsh reality of being oppressed. And this is where we need to be self-critical and recognise that we have failed to raise awareness of the real root of all kinds of oppression and our potential and our responsibility as a class to change things from the ground up. By fighting on every front against the bourgeois power that oppresses us, we will be able to shed light on the real solutions and create class consciousness. Implementing an anti-fascist culture is essential for the society and the world we want to forge. It is there, in the street, where the field of struggle against fascism is located.

The struggle against depoliticization and de-ideologization is key in the current context worldwide, and in the Basque Country we have paid dearly for this aspect and this abandonment of our responsibilities as working class and oppressed people. The challenge is great but essential, we are working on it.

● What does Palestine, the Zionist genocide and the resistance of the Palestinian people mean in the context of what is happening in the world? How do you analyse the behaviour of Basque militancy on this issue?

We are facing a very serious situation that cannot be understood without taking into account the more than 75 years of colonialism that the Zionist State carries out in the land of Palestine. It is one of the cruelest cases where we see the ultimate consequence and purpose of imperialism and fascism, in this matter in the form of Zionism, which is nothing other than destroying the property and lives of the peoples they occupy and attempt to subjugate.

This genocide could not be carried out without the complicity of Western governments or without the direct collaboration of large companies and private forums of the international oligarchy. It is insulting how they try to equate the oppressor and the oppressed, and the way to legitimize the use of violence according to who exercises it. This is another of the usual themes in the manual of imperialism and its media branch. Today we are facing the most fascist government in the history of Israel, where in its eagerness to carry out an ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people it does not skimp on its own resources and collects the economic, media and military aid provided by global capitalism, something that is framed in the interests of the ruling classes at the international level.

In the Basque Country this issue is very present, and in the analyses and demands the different points of view we have about our own situation come to light. On the one hand there is the institutional sector and those that compose and support it, who see the solution in the creation of two states, legitimizing Israel’s occupation and thus whitewashing Zionism. And on the other hand there is the popular and revolutionary sector, in which we defend the resistance and struggle of the Palestinian people by denouncing the genocide. We demand a Free Palestine from the river to the sea, without Israeli presence or influence.

In this Basque context we want to denounce the complicity with Zionism of Basque companies such as CAF railways, which together with Israeli builders participate in projects of the Zionist government, some of them in illegal settlements. In this way they participate in the confiscation of land from Palestinians, facilitating the Zionist genocide. Against these companies and in general against the murderous policies of the Israeli government, support for the Palestinian people and their legitimate struggle is clear in the Basque Country and a benchmark in the field of resistance and combat against imperialism. We, from prison, have supported calls made by the revolutionized sector and carried out fasts in solidarity with the Palestinian people and against the Zionist genocide. From here we offer unconditional support to the thousands of Palestinian political prisoners, especially the militants of the PFLP, who are suffering from lack of medical assistance, lack of food and torture by their jailers, who are the same ones who have imprisoned, but not defeated, their people.

● Do you think that NATO will continue to pull the rope in provocations against Russia (with Ukraine as an excuse) and that a dangerous amplification of the conflict could be generated?

There is no doubt that NATO’s activity is something that has no rest and its very existence is based on this, on not stopping to cause destabilization on a global scale. With the political-business-military leadership of the United States, its activity is to attack sovereign countries, either directly or through puppet governments or pseudo-popular movements that they finance and push to war and destruction.

The purpose of NATO is the maintenance of a world order subject to Western multinationals and oligarchies, mostly Yankees. What we are seeing in Ukraine and in Palestinian lands are the macabre works of a criminal organization that defends the hegemony of imperialism. In these cases using Zionist fascism and that of the heirs of Stepán Bandera as the spearhead in their attack. It was seen in Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Syria… there are multiple public and not so public examples that define NATO’s interests well. Therefore, the continuity of this type of conflict or the amplification of those that already exist is something that cannot be ruled out knowing the increasingly urgent need for Capital to feed itself, mainly in the imperialist phase. The end of capitalism is the only way to make these wars of plunder that seek to destroy peoples and submit every km² of this land to their own private interests as a ruling class disappear.

*To conclude, we want to honor the memory of Fernando Morroni and Roberto Facal, two Uruguayan militants who were murdered 30 years ago when they were fighting against imperialist collaboration and for the freedom of our comrades imprisoned on hunger strike and hospitalized in the Filtro under threat of extradition. We also remember that process of solidarity and struggle in which the Uruguayan people kept the pulse against imperialist repression for more than two years. An unforgettable example of internationalism.

We would like to emphasize that this interview has been answered jointly by the three signatories.

Garikoitz Etxeberria Goikoetxea, Jon Kepa Preciado Izarra and Mikel Sansebastian

Basque Political Prisoners

Source: Resumen Latinoamericano

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/09/08/interview-with-basque-political-prisoners-on-demand-for-total-amnesty-support-for-palestinian-resistance-and-opposition-to-nato/

#antiNato #Basque #europe #palestineSolidarity #PoliticalPrisoners

This week, Deutsche Bahn infrastructure was the subject of arson attacks in Bremen, Hamburg and Berlin. The disruptions caused by these attacks will hopefully cause effective fractures in the capitalist routine. Like no other company, the state-owned DB forms the backbone and lifeline of the German economy and provides the fuel that keeps it running. Every day DB Cargo transports tons of raw materials looted around the world to the workshops and factories of the major steel, chemical and automotive industries, to satisfy the company’s insatiable hunger for consumer goods and building materials.

At the same time, we are in the midst of a vast transformation process, from the fossil fuel era to a high-tech and electrified world, which is being sold to us by the German government under the misleading term “energy transition”. DB logistics plays a key role in this process. Solutions for transporting hydrogen or lithium batteries, for example, are currently being developed to support the expansion of a “green” economy in Germany and make the area attractive to companies that set up there and invest in new technologies. Tesla in Grünheide is probably the most well-known and controversial example of this mendacious madness. This is accompanied by the emergence and expansion of extractive projects and new transit routes to transport coveted and disputed resources such as cobalt, lithium, nickel, copper and silicon, essential for so-called sustainable technologies, from mines to processing and production plants. While politicians and industry hope that this will open up new sales markets and lucrative business opportunities, this development means one thing above all for the Earth: progress toward total destruction. But now, with a green badge and in the name of climate protection, DB is absolutely ahead of the curve.

When the railway comes to a standstill, the finely timed processes of this system of exploitation and destruction are interrupted and slowed down.

But DB is much more than a civilian company that just transports goods and labor from A to B. DB’s rail network is a central component of military infrastructure and is used by the Bundeswehr and NATO for troop movement and, together with highways, is a backbone of transporting armaments such as tanks and heavy war equipment around the world and in active theaters of war.

This year, Germany is the starting point for several NATO exercises. These are mainly exercises for the deployment of tens of thousands of NATO soldiers and their war material on the “Eastern Front”. The Bundeswehr leads many of these large-scale military exercises, making Germany a hub for moving troops and military equipment from the North Sea and Western Europe to Scandinavia, the Baltic states, and the Balkans. With these exercises, NATO and Sweden intend to simulate the scenario of a Russian attack and give “a clear demonstration of our unity, strength and determination for mutual defense” (Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, Christopher Cavoli).

The DB railway network is part of NATO’s military infrastructure. By attacking the DB, you are attacking the infrastructure of war and armaments production.

However, DB is not only a military actor in this territory: DB profits from colonial and environmental destruction projects in the Global South. DB Consulting & Engineering advised the Mexican Ministry of Tourism on the “Tren Maya” project, acting as a shadow operator behind the scenes. The “Tren Maya” is a 1,500 km long railway project with highway infrastructure in southeastern Mexico, which connects several federal states with the tourist hell of Cancún and for which many hectares of jungle have already been deforested. In addition, for this construction work, many cenotes, interconnected caves with huge reserves of fresh water, are being destroyed and literally exploded. Such caves are not only important for the water supply, but also have great cultural significance for the local indigenous population. The project aims to bring tourists to areas that were previously little linked to tourism and little exploited, opening the region to mass tourism and new investments. The “Tren Maya” is also run by the Mexican army and serves to further militarize the region and the southern border.

DB is also involved in colonial projects in Brazil: a huge export port will be built on the island of Cajual, in the east of the Amazon, with a deep-sea station and a new private railway line (EF-317) 520 km long. This will be used to transport raw materials such as copper, iron ore, soybeans and hydrogen, from the interior of the country to the Atlantic coast, so that they can be exported more quickly to the North of the world. The “DB E.C.O. Group” is involved in the project and describes it as “sustainable”. The only sustainable thing is the environmental devastation caused by this project. Through this plan, DB profits from the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest and the subsequent brutal eviction of indigenous communities. The export port also threatens the enormous biodiversity of the nearby mangrove forests. The planned railway line passes through several indigenous communities, some of which are uncontacted. The Maranhão region, through which the railway line passes, is the area with the highest rate of violence against indigenous peoples and this construction project will intensify this violence and land grabbing.

Deutsche Bahn profits from global environmental destruction and colonial projects. These colonial projects mean militarization and land grabbing, i.e. war.

DB is therefore not only a military player in Europe, transporting troops, war equipment and exporting weapons and thus profiting from current and future wars, but also a global player in environmental destruction and colonial exploitation, land grabbing and militarization through its projects in the Global South.

We sabotage military and colonial infrastructure all over the world!

AGAINST CAPITALIST PEACE – AGAINST CAPITALIST WAR!

Greetings to France, to the unexpected delegation and to all the other saboteurs who lit the Olympic flame in the cable ducts of the SNCF and the internet operators.

[Posted in German in https://kontrapolis.info/13610/| Translated into Italian and published in https://lanemesi.noblogs.org/post/2024/08/05/attacchi-incendiari-contro-linfrastruttura-dellazienda-ferroviaria-tedesca-deutsche-bahn-brema-amburgo-berlino-germania-luglio-2024/]

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/08/06/attack-on-deutsche-bahns-railway-infrastructure-sabotaging-war-and-colonialism-bremen-hamburg-berlin-germany/

#AntiColonial #antiNato #DirectAction #europe #germany #mayanTrain

Hacktivist Groups Target NATO Summit Amid Rising Tensions https://thecyberexpress.com/cyberattacks-on-the-nato-summit/ #NATO75thAnniversarySummit #CyberattacksontheNATO #TheCyberExpressNews #CybersecurityNews #TheCyberExpress #FirewallDaily #attacksonNATO #DDoSattacks #antiNATO

Hacktivist Groups Target NATO Summit Amid Rising Tensions https://thecyberexpress.com/cyberattacks-on-the-nato-summit/ #NATO75thAnniversarySummit #CyberattacksontheNATO #TheCyberExpressNews #CybersecurityNews #TheCyberExpress #FirewallDaily #attacksonNATO #DDoSattacks #antiNATO

Eight people have been reportedly injured during clashes between police and demonstrators taking part in an anti-NATO march in the Italian city of Naples, after police attacked with batons and teargas.

According to the sources demonstrators made an effort to breach police lines en route to the San Carlo opera house, where a concert commemorating the 75th anniversary of the alliance was scheduled.

Reports also note a pro-Palestinian procession along Naples’ Via Toledo, featuring participants displaying banners opposing NATO and Palestinian flags.

Around 50 people tried to break through the police cordon and were met with repression by the state. Meanwhile, pro-Palestinian protesters occupied the premises of the University of Naples Federico II, demanding that NATO cease support for their client state, the Zionist regime occupying Palestine.

“We consider it unacceptable that such a method of violence is used against those who loudly condemn the barbaric war and the participation of NATO and our governments in the genocide committed by the state of Israel. While people are dying in the Gaza Strip, in Naples they are breaking the heads of those who dare to disturb high officials who have closed for celebrations in theaters,” the protest organizers were quoted as saying.

Late last month, mass group demonstrations took place on March 30 in several European countries as part of the weekly ongoing protests since the beginning of the Zionist war on Gaza. However, that week it coincided with Land Day.

The demonstrations showcased unprecedented high momentum and a wide scope across Europe, extending to many cities, including London, Paris, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Aarhus, Oslo, and others.

Naples is home to NATO’s Allied Joint Force Command and Defense College.

NATO was founded on the basis of the North Atlantic Treaty signed on April 4, 1949 to provide collective security against the Soviet Union, serve as an counter-revolutionary force internationally, and notably included Nazi’s in its leadership.

The treaty was signed in Washington initially by 12 countries – Belgium, England, Denmark, Iceland, Italy, Canada, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United States and France. Currently, the bloc has 32 members, almost all European countries except the United States, Canada and Turkey.

Anti-NATO sentiment has grown worldwide, including in member countries over the alliance’s policy of aggressive interference in other countries’ affairs, and due to its imperialist expansion internationally. The issue of NATO expansion is currently at the forefront of international politics due to its policies leading to the war in Ukraine.

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/04/09/anti-nato-and-pro-palestine-protesters-clash-with-police-in-naples-italy/

#antiNato #europe #italy #naples #protest #repression

Le Capitali – La Spagna si tinge di blu e la sinistra corre ai ripari https://euractiv.it/section/capitali/news/le-capitali-la-spagna-si-tinge-di-blu-e-la-sinistra-corre-ai-ripari/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #abusisessualisuiminori #Alimentazione #antinato #Austria

Intelligence ceca: la Russia ostacola l’approvazione del trattato di difesa con gli USA https://euractiv.it/section/capitali/news/intelligence-ceca-la-russia-ostacola-lapprovazione-del-trattato-di-difesa-con-gli-usa/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #antinato #disinformazionerussa #RepubblicaCeca #Usa