Fight Fortress Europe!
As so many cry crocodile tears, we will be sipping cocktails with Schlingensief or laughing with Dennis!
Fifty
years ago, on the 13th of August 1961, the Berlin wall went up
overnight; the wall remained for a further 28 years. 50 years later, on
the 13th of August 2011, Germany will once again celebrate its national
cult of victimhood. At the same time, over the weekend, hundreds will
drown trying to enter Fortress Europe.
Public morale generally
starts and ends with national interest. This is clearly revealed in the
current debate over refugees. If poverty or persecution are recognized
at all, then only as a humanitarian problem. In reality, they’re a
result of the dominance of the global capitalist market and its
geopolitical framework, maintained by capitalist states. That market
regime serves highly developed capitalist countries, who will, if
necessary, defend their global regime with military force. Angela
Merkel: “Together, we will fight terrorism, organized crime and illegal
immigration.” And any disruption of global trade, one might add.
For
many refugees, their need for security and basic material requirements
remains unrecognized, unlike the wishes of those citizens fleeing the
GDR in 1989 who where count into the german collective. Now, there are
other criteria for selection, only those who are of use to the country
can enter, and even then, for how long? Horst Seehofer echoes the
selfish resentment of many Germans when he says: “Germany can’t be the
welfare cheque for the whole world.” In 1992 Germany altered its Asylum
legislation to keep refugees out. Simply: when it is known that an
asylum seeker has entered Germany via the border of a “secure country”,
they will be deported back to that country. Whether or not a country is
deemed secure is of course defined by Germany itself.
Germany’s
strategy is reproduced on the European level: “Shoot and sink those
little boats before they enter Italian waters.” Umberto Bossi, a
minister in Berlusconi’s 2003 Italian government. Consequently, 2005 saw
the founding of ‘Frontex’, a pan European Agency for “active
co-operation” on the European border – active co-operation means hunting
and deporting refugees and migrants with sophisticated technology,
weapons and personnel. Refugees and migrants are forced to risk their
lives on the approach to enter european countries. If they try via land,
that is Turkey or Greece, then minefields and militarily secured border
zones await them. Entering by sea is even worse. Those who survive the
trip and aren’t sent back on the open sea will generally get into a
chain of deportation, regardless of their official legal status. Those
few who do manage to enter Germany have to put up with daily racism,
crowded and isolated accommodations, on 40 Euro pocketmoney a month.
Such
crass policies, and the general impositions of bourgeoisie freedom, are
not made any better by comparisions with the authoritarianism of
real-Socialist lands. The current global dominance of the capitalist
system produces and magnifies powerlessness and despair, and those
pressures make the majority of people’s lives torturous - even for those
who are doing well. Capitalist freedom means the rule of the market, it
means a life that is controlled and formed by the constraints of waged
labour and ceaseless competition. Therefore we are not only against
exclusion but also against “integration” - into a bourgeois capitalist
daily routine which is based on exclusion. We want a rational, solidary
society, that is: communism.
Come and share Banana Cocktails,
Films – Codename Dennis and The German Chainsaw Massacre. - And a small
but sweet raft-trip. (The German Chainsaw Massacre will be shown with
subtitles.) Irony and loathing in Germany!
Our floating cinema will drop its anchor at the Urbanhafen.
20.30h
Agit-Prop-Clips agains Integration and Exclusion
21h
The German Chainsaw Massacre
22h
Deckname Dennis (OV)
TOP B3rlin and Wackelberry-Crew
DIE MAUER MUSS WEG!
FIGHT FORTRESS EUROPE!
As so many cry crocodile tears, we will be sipping cocktails with Schlingensief or laughing with Dennis!
Fifty years ago, on the 13th of August 1961, the Berlin wall went up
overnight; the wall remained for a further 28 years. 50 years later, on
the 13th of August 2011, Germany will once again celebrate its national
cult of victimhood. At the same time, over the weekend, hundreds will
drown trying to enter Fortress Europe.
Public morale generally starts and ends with national interest. This is
clearly revealed in the current debate over refugees. If poverty or
persecution are recognized at all, then only as a humanitarian problem.
In reality, they’re a result of the dominance of the global capitalist
market and its geopolitical framework, maintained by capitalist states.
That market regime serves highly developed capitalist countries, who
will, if necessary, defend their global regime with military force.
Angela Merkel: “Together, we will fight terrorism, organized crime and
illegal immigration.” And any disruption of global trade, one might add.
For many refugees, their need for security and basic material
requirements remains unrecognized, unlike the wishes of those citizens
fleeing the GDR in 1989 who where count into the german collective. Now,
there are other criteria for selection, only those who are of use to
the country can enter, and even then, for how long? Horst Seehofer
echoes the selfish resentment of many Germans when he says: “Germany
can’t be the welfare cheque for the whole world.” In 1992 Germany
altered its Asylum legislation to keep refugees out. Simply: when it is
known that an asylum seeker has entered Germany via the border of a
“secure country”, they will be deported back to that country. Whether or
not a country is deemed secure is of course defined by Germany itself.
Germany’s strategy is reproduced on the European level: “Shoot and sink
those little boats before they enter Italian waters.” Umberto Bossi, a
minister in Berlusconi’s 2003 Italian government. Consequently, 2005 saw
the founding of ‘Frontex’, a pan European Agency for “active
co-operation” on the European border – active co-operation means hunting
and deporting refugees and migrants with sophisticated technology,
weapons and personnel. Refugees and migrants are forced to risk their
lives on the approach to enter european countries. If they try via land,
that is Turkey or Greece, then minefields and militarily secured border
zones await them. Entering by sea is even worse. Those who survive the
trip and aren’t sent back on the open sea will generally get into a
chain of deportation, regardless of their official legal status. Those
few who do manage to enter Germany have to put up with daily racism,
crowded and isolated accommodations, on 40 Euro pocketmoney a month.
Such crass policies, and the general impositions of bourgeoisie freedom,
are not made any better by comparisions with the authoritarianism of
real-Socialist lands. The current global dominance of the capitalist
system produces and magnifies powerlessness and despair, and those
pressures make the majority of people’s lives torturous - even for those
who are doing well. Capitalist freedom means the rule of the market, it
means a life that is controlled and formed by the constraints of waged
labour and ceaseless competition. Therefore we are not only against
exclusion but also against “integration” - into a bourgeois capitalist
daily routine which is based on exclusion. We want a rational, solidary
society, that is: communism.
Come and share Banana Cocktails, Films – Codename Dennis and The German
Chainsaw Massacre. - And a small but sweet raft-trip. (The German
Chainsaw Massacre will be shown with subtitles.) Irony and loathing in
Germany!
Our floating cinema will drop its anchor at the Urbanhafen.
20.30h
Agit-Prop-Clips agains Integration and Exclusion
21h
The German Chainsaw Massacre
22h
Deckname Dennis (OV)
TOP B3rlin and Wackelberry-Crew