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Revolutie en contra-revolutie in Soedan
doorbraak.eu/revolutie-en-cont

"Deze oorlog is een contra-revolutionaire strijd om de macht en de grondstoffen, en draait om de belangen van het mondiale kapitaal. Dat vindt het wel best dat militairen de dictatuur van Bashir, die de bevolking heeft afgewezen, vervangen door een nep-burgerlijke, zogenaamd democratische regering, zolang die maar een neo-liberaal beleid voert.

Land staat centraal in deze strijd. Met land bedoel ik grond, maar ook water, vee, bossen, ertsen en aardolie, die lokale, regionale en internationale elites al sinds mensenheugenis in handen proberen te krijgen.

Toen we in 1956 onafhankelijk werden van de Brits-Egyptische overheersing, ruilden we in wezen een koloniaal systeem in voor een mondiaal kapitalistisch systeem."

Doorbraak.eu · Revolutie en contra-revolutie in Soedan | Doorbraak.euTerwijl alle ogen gericht zijn op Gaza, leidt verder naar het zuiden, in Soedan, een ander gruwelijk conflict tot massale hongersnood. In de gevechten die in april 2023 uitbraken, strijdt een agressieve militaire groep genaamd de Rapid Support Forces (RSF) tegen het Soedanese leger. Beide strijden om de controle over het land, zijn aardolie, goud, ertsen en landbouw producten. Meer

Een korte geschiedenis van de strijd van de West-Europese stadsguerrilla tegen de NAVO (deel 2)
doorbraak.eu/een-korte-geschie

"Het is niets nieuws of verrassends dat de heersende geschiedschrijving de frontperiode belastert en criminaliseert. Linkse media negeren deze fase echter, of reduceren hem vaak tot de acties van de RAF. Dat is een blinde vlek in onze geschiedenis en we willen proberen deze periode op een andere manier te bekijken.

Het document “Guerrilla, beweging en anti-imperialistisch front” werd na de publicatie veertig jaar geleden wijd verspreid en publiekelijk bediscussieerd. Niet alleen door “onze” strijdorganisaties, maar ook in radicaal-democratische en humanistische kringen. Als gevolg daarvan werd de tekst vanaf het begin zwaar gecriminaliseerd. Dat was een poging om een noodzakelijke discussie te voorkomen.

Een belangrijke passage in deze tekst, die later vaak onopgemerkt bleef, benadrukte niet alleen militante activiteiten, maar ook openbare “legale” politieke initiatieven. Het concept was niet beperkt tot gewapende strijd. Het front was dus een politiek-militair proces."

Doorbraak.eu · Een korte geschiedenis van de strijd van de West-Europese stadsguerrilla tegen de NAVO (deel 2) | Doorbraak.euIn juni vindt in Den Haag de NAVO-top plaats. Er wordt druk georganiseerd aan demonstraties en andere protesten. Her en der verschijnen artikelen over de NAVO en de NAVO-lidstaten en hun imperialistische militaire ingrepen wereldwijd sinds de oprichting in 1949. De NAVO valt te omschrijven als een na-oorlogs verbond van alle westerse koloniale machten (met uitzondering van de Sovjet-Unie en

NeeTO camp 2025

Somewhere in the Netherlands, Friday, June 20 at 12:00 PM GMT+2

NeemeansNee (source)

Dear comrades, sisters, agitators, subversives This summer NATO will gather in The Hague, Netherlands, along with 45 heads of state, 6000 delegates... many evil people in general. In times of intensifying genocide, fascism and militarization, we want to gather in parallel as an autonomous counter-summit to:

  • reclaim our streets, neighbourhoods, cities and territories

  • ruin the warmongers' party

  • share tactics

  • plot, strategize and conspire (short and long- term)

  • make our transnational alliances stronger and more concrete

Reactionary forces are organized. Their local and international, formal and informal networks manifest in the EU racist migration pact, the UK fascists' racist attacks all throughout the country last summer, and the intensification of NATO war preparation exercises - to give just a few examples.

In these dark times, we want to strengthen our territorial and transnational work for a direct confrontation with power and the creation of alternatives.

Reactionary forces are organized. Their local and international, formal and informal networks manifest in the EU racist migration pact, the UK fascists' racist attacks all throughout the country last summer, and the intensification of NATO war preparation exercises - to give just a few examples.

In these dark times, we want to strengthen our territorial and transnational work for a direct confrontation with power and the creation of alternatives.

We have different ideas for the program and the structure of the camp, but please feel free to reach out to us with questions and suggestions at neemeansnee@proton.me. We will post updates on https://t.me/NeemeansNee (telegram channel). ps: nee means no in dutch :-)

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Fuck Arizona, defend Audi workers

Audi Brussel, zondag 13 april om 12:00 CEST

Front d'Action Révolutionnaire, AFA-BXL (source)

This Sunday, April 13, at noon, for Act III against Arizona, a rally has been organized by the Brussels antifascist AG in front of the factory. To support them directly. To rebuild their camp, destroyed by the police. And to warn that the closure of the Audi plant is not just a social disaster, but also a gateway to a militarized future.

Practical infos:

  • Rally at the Audi factory : 201 boulevard de la Deuxième Armée Britannique, 1190 Forest

  • Let's bring materials to rebuild the destroyed camp.

  • Let's bring some food for the barbecue, some banners, some soccer. In short, something to make this afternoon festive!

  • And above all, let's bring solidarity and strength. Let's be many !

Forest, April 2025. The Audi factory in Brussels is at a standstill, officially closed since the beginning of 2025. However, it could soon be waking up... in the service of war. A project to convert the plant into a military vehicle factory is being promoted by the Belgian government, as part of a vast remilitarization plan. But some life still stirs onsite.

A few dozen workers, left out in the cold, are still occupying the site. Ignored in the social plan, invisible in the media, they are the ones who, against all odds, are waging a fundamental struggle. For recognition, for their dignity, against the brutality of licensing.

When the closure was announced in July 2024, Audi left over 3,000 subcontractors out in the cold. Management negotiated a few meagre bonuses for some, nothing for others. Those who remain onsite today were left out of these negotiations. They are the ones from whom everything was taken.

Those excluded, left with mere scraps or nothing whatsoever. Those who didn't leave, because they had nothing left to lose. Those for whom the camp they had managed to maintain until then was razed to the ground in less than a night on March 31.

But the camp will be rebuilt. Because they continue to fight, and because they are not alone. To be there on Sunday is to defend their presence on the site, to make their demands a reality, to give them the collective impetus they've been denied for months.

Remilitarization advances on their ruins

What Theo Francken is proposing for the Audio plant is a double humiliation, advancing a brutal social breakdown and erasing the last pockets of resistance. On top of this, his plans would see the ruins of this workplace transformed into war workshops.

This remilitarization is not neutral. It is part of a global project: that of a fascist international, stretching from Trump to Netanyahu, via Macron, Orban and Francken. An authoritarian, colonial security front, which normalizes war as a political horizon.

This mobilization is a refusal to let the concrete of their workshops today be used tomorrow to produce armoured vehicles for neo-colonial wars. It is a refusal to allow social erosion to be a victory for militarism.

Since the invasion of the Ukraine, Europe has entered a new era. An era in which armaments become a budgetary, industrial and symbolic priority. Germany is releasing a trillion euros for its armies. France speaks of a « military nation » and announces record military budgets. In Belgium, the government is falling into line, bowing to pressure from NATO and the arms lobby.

Everywhere, factories, speeches, schools and research are being remilitarized; a war economy is being promoted, while social protection is collapsing.

Waging war on war means standing against the global remilitarization driven by this fascist and imperialist international.

Because the weapons built here don't gather dust on assembly lines - they're deployed to destroy. In Gaza, across much of the African continent, in our neighborhoods, at our borders, and against social movements... they fuel a system of control, dispossession, and terror.

That's why, this Sunday at 12PM, we'll be there. To continue helping to rebuild the destroyed camp. To say that the occupiers' demands are vital, that they are not alone, and that their struggle deserves to be heard. To prevent their silence becoming the condition for a new warlike industrial order.

Supporting Audi workers today means refusing to let a working-class factory be recycled as a war factory. It means continuing to fight with them to ensure that their demands are heard. It also means remembering that antimilitarism is not opposed to the working class - it is an extension of it. It says: not in our name. Not for your war, not on our ruins.

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