A-Infos (en) Germany, LIKOS: Demo for SubstAnZ on February 24th, 2023 (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Joint speech by the libertarian communists Osnabrück (LIKOS) and No 
Lager at the demonstration "Osnabrück needs SubstAnZ" on February 24th, 
2024. ---- Hi, we are from No Lager and Likos and are one of the groups 
that organize themselves in substance. And it's been that way for quite 
a while. For the people who don't know us that well: No Lager, meaning 
us and many others, is a local, anti-racist association. We are 
organizing together against the racist present in Germany, Europe and 
beyond. That means against deportations, camp accommodation, racist laws 
like the Dublin Regulation, against exclusion and exploitation. To stand 
up for each other, we use visible and invisible forms of protest and 
resistance. In our work we base our work on the problems we experience 
in everyday life. We classify these experiences politically and defend 
ourselves against them.

At our meetings, people come together in very different situations and 
with very different backgrounds. We meet every Thursday for this in the 
substance. Sometimes it starts in the afternoon to plan the 
demo/information stand/campaign, exchange skills or paint new banners 
before the big plenary session. From 6 p.m. we invite you to our open 
anti-deportation café every week. Everyone is invited to discuss 
problems, support each other, develop strategies, receive legal and 
emotional support and find solutions. The other part of the group enjoys 
the formidable, always fresh vegan Thursday menu that our friends from 
the Küfa group conjured up.[Cheers!]At 7 p.m. sharp[wink]we plop down on 
the sofas in the large plenary room. And then there is plenary. We talk 
about upcoming events and actions, exchange ideas about the latest news, 
argue, discuss, get angry at all the shit that's happening, that's being 
passed, decided, pushed through and ignored, mad at the state, the cops 
and the deportation authorities, and sometimes we feel powerless these, 
rebuild ourselves, drink tea and fool around. At the end of the evening 
there is beer or spritzer down in the pub and of course we unload and 
load the dishwasher.

The substance is also open to us on all the other days: We meet again in 
these and those groups, we organize or attend lectures, workshops or 
celebrate wild parties in order to top up our solidarity fund (either 
with or without karaoke). You can see - hopefully we conveyed this 
believably - we feel right at home in SubstAnZ. It should stay that way 
and we would like to continue to invite people to this place. We want to 
continue to organize ourselves here together, get to know each other, 
help each other and network. We want to continue to do politics from the 
bottom left in these spaces. We want to experience many more parties, 
events, readings, workshops, short and long meetings and meals here. We 
won't let our substance be taken away from us! We want to stay and we 
will stay!!! And certainly the people of Likos too.

Hello, we are the Libertarian Communists Osnabrück (Likos) and we also 
need the SubstAnZ. We have been around for eight years now - it is 
doubtful that we would have been around for that long without SubstAnZ, 
because without left-wing spaces it is hardly possible to get a 
left-wing organization off the ground. Our political work is both theory 
and practice and both depend on the SubstAnZ existing.

We are convinced that it is important for left-wing politics to explain 
what you want to change and abolish socially, why society is the way it 
is and what a different society could look like. In our case, for 
example, this means a materialistic, anti-authoritarian approach to 
issues such as racism, sexism and anti-Semitism. We would like to 
emphasize that, in addition to practice, continuous theoretical work 
also needs collective spaces. You can read a book alone, but explaining 
and discussing the content together, supporting each other in 
understanding, can only be done together.

Fighting against making a false peace with social conditions is much 
more pleasant and thoughtful when people come together for this purpose 
instead of isolating themselves in their political filter bubbles. 
Educational events in the form of lectures, workshops, etc. that deal 
with uncomfortable topics and do not exclude people per se are 
unthinkable without spaces like SubstAnZ. Neither an online lecture nor 
a lecture at the university can replace that. The time of the corona 
pandemic has made this more than clear. At political lectures, at 
parties, at bars, in fact everything is always about us on the left 
coming together, arguing, being a corrective to each other.

And for our practice? Of course we need space for this. Without SubstAnZ 
there is no place to plan demonstrations, no place to paint banners, no 
storage space, no place to do solidarity work, discuss flyers together, 
etc. Or to give current concrete examples: We are currently part of the 
anti-fascist participation campaign " "Taking away space from the 
right." This has been making life difficult for the AfD in Osnabrück for 
over six months. They have lost their place to meet and no standLuchar 
contra una falsa paz with las condiciones sociales es mucho más 
placentero y reflexivo cuando las personas se reúnen con este propósito 
en lugar de aislarse en sus burbujas de filtro politico. Los eventos 
educativos en forma de conferences, talleres, etc. que aborden temas 
incómodos y no excluyan a las personas per se son impensables sin 
espacios como SubstAnZ. There is no conference on the line or there is a 
conference at the University of Pueden reemplazar eso. The era of the 
pandemic of coronavirus is more clear. In the conferences of politics, 
in the fiestas, in the cash, in the hecho, they are involved in the 
nosotros, the events, no reunification, discussion, no corrijamos and 
other people.

¿Y para nuestra práctica? Por supuesto que necesitamos space para esto. 
Sin SubstAnZ, no hay lugar para planificar manifestaciones, ni lugar 
para pintar pancartas, ni space para guardar cosas, ni lugar para hacer 
trabajo solidario, discuss folletos juntos, etc. O, por poner ejemplos 
concretes actuales: actualmente somos parte del grupo antifascista. 
Campaña de participation "Quitándole espacio a la derecha". It has been 
several months since the life of the AfD in Osnabrück is difficult. 
Perdieron su lugar de reunion y ningún stood in the center of the city 
quedó sin a contraprotesta. The final result is on the street with more 
than 2,000 people at 27 de enero bajo elma "Todos juntos contra el 
fascismo". A campaña como ésta es impensable sin SubstAnZ. In concrete 
terms, it is significant that the anti-fascist movement and the lucha 
against the AfD have been debilitated in Osnabrück and SubstAnZ does not 
exist, and this is a moment in which the past is included in the final 
moments of the race Alemania is a problem!

The extra parliamentary group in particular, ya sea No camp, nosotros, 
el movement climático or las campañas de Antifa, ¡necesita espacios de 
izquierda! Los necesitamos como infraestructura elemental. Y no 
dejaremos que nos los quiten. Salgamos juntos a las calles en los 
proximos meses.

¡La sustancia permanece! in the city center remained without 
counter-protest. We were last on the streets with over 2,000 people on 
January 27th under the motto "All together against fascism". A campaign 
like this is unthinkable without SubstAnZ. In concrete terms, this means 
anti-fascist work and the fight against the AfD will be weakened in 
Osnabrück if there is no SubstAnZ - and this at a time when it seems 
that even the last few people have realized that the shift to the right 
in Germany is a problem!

The extra-parliamentary left in particular, whether No Lager, us, the 
climate movement or Antifa campaigns, need left-wing spaces! We need 
them as elementary infrastructure. And we won't let them be taken away 
from us. Let's take to the streets together in the coming months.

SubstAnZ remains!

https://likos.noblogs.org/2024/02/25/demo-fuers-substanz-am-24-2-2023-redebeitrag/
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