On November 11, ZSP in Warsaw took part
in the antifascist blockade of a right-wing march. As always, we showed
our opposition to the ideology of nationalism and patriotism as well as
fascism and spread our texts which were also anti-capitalist and
internationalist.
Many incidents took place and
there were some attacks made by aggressive nationalists. The
nationalists however were not alone in their march, gathering a lot of
support from the right, who united with them. The support of the
nationalist march became stronger due to the opposition against the
liberals who dominated the mobilization. The liberal establishment
seemed to enact their rage more even than the antifascists who have been
fighting them for years.
The police harassed and arrested
many people, but the worse of their violence was directed against the
right-wing action. Water cannons were used, tear gas, which affected
many people in the area. The police beat people who were just standing,
hitting them in the crouch and even kicking them in the face and
bringing the LRAD and other weapons that they shouldn't even have.
Again this year we did not go
into the 11th of November coalition for various reasons, but we acted.
We also spent the night defending our comrade's home against possible
nazi attacks with many others.
Some concern was caused by the
arrest of a large number of antifa from Germany – 92 people. The people
ran into some trouble with fascists and decided, for whatever reason, to
run into the liberal bar called Nowy Wspanialy Swiat (which we were
picketing last month). As we described, some people related to this
place tried to use the police against us and in the past made strong
criticism against antifascists. Instead of a confrontational event, they
organized something called „colorful independence” this year, focusing
on getting celebrity endorsements and having hierarchical events where
they figured as stars. They tried at several occasions to prevent other
groups from speaking about other issues during the events, even trying
to censor a talk about social exclusion. As we understand, the antifa
ran into this place but later were forced out by the people at the bar
and were arrested by the police. Only 5 of them managed to avoid this
and we heard about this from one of them, although she doesn't know
Polish and therefore cannot tell us exactly what was said or done.
Whatever the situation was, we suppose that they were not very happy to
have street fighting antifa in their establishment and we hope that
nobody from abroad will make such a mistake again. As of writing, the
arrested are still detained and we have information that a few people
might have charges against them.
Below are some links to videos showing what it looked like in Warsaw yesterday.
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