A-Infos (en) Germany, Trier, Die Platform: Speech on Anti-War Day in Trier (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

In the last century, two wars destroyed the entire world. The border of 
this great slaughter is only 100 km from this place (roughly pointing 
towards the pillory (if the speech is given at the Porta, towards the 
Marx statue)). Verdun is forever associated with the senselessness of 
war. Today we know how senseless the killing truly was, how people, 
nature, and resources were burned in the furnace of imperial ambitions. 
No one today would say that these wars were just or even justified.

In 1913, on the eve of World War I, Rosa Luxemburg organized a 
demonstration against the war and was imprisoned for 14 months. How 
many, who at the time knew nothing of the horrors of the coming war, 
considered this punishment appropriate? How many considered violence 
against the war's opponents necessary?

When Karl Liebknecht and Erich Mühsam stood up against the ongoing 
murder of the war, they were imprisoned in fortresses. How many people 
thought this was justified in order to win this unwinnable war? To 
prolong this horror?

Not even seven years after the end of World War II, young people 
organized the "Caravan Against Rearmament." There, Phillip Müller was 
shot by the police. He was the first demonstrator murdered by the state 
in the Federal Republic of Germany, and he was an anti-militarist like us.

It's not hard to see, looking back historically, how right these people 
were. Today, federal foundations are named after them, and plaques on 
buildings commemorate them. But their mission has been forgotten. 
Because today, the fight against war is as important again as it was in 
their time.

But when people rebel against war today, as they did just last weekend 
in Cologne, you might think it's 1913 all over again. At the conclusion 
of the Rheinmetall Disarmament Action Camp, where warmongers and arms 
manufacturers were blocked, an anti-military parade took place. The 
police attacked it, encircling over 600 people and injuring 150, some 
seriously. These people took to the streets for the same reasons as we 
did. They are our comrades. Their struggle is our struggle. Our struggle 
is the same struggle as in 1913.

We don't want to be beaten up by this state anymore. We don't want to be 
used up by this state, whether in war or in production. We don't want 
war propaganda that tries to tell us we're on the wrong side. We know 
we're on the right side, on the side of peace, on the side of 
international solidarity. We must stand together against the state 
violence that is coming, against the violence that already exists today. 
This is just the beginning. Organize yourselves, stand together, because 
together we cannot be defeated.

We despise and fight war because we not only demand a world of 
solidarity, but want to build it. Our resistance to rearmament and 
conscription is only possible together with the resistance to Fortress 
Europe, Frontex, and racist deportation policies. Therefore, we say to 
the BSW: piss off, you have no business at this demonstration!

https://trier.dieplattform.org/2025/09/13/redebeitrag-zum-antikriegstag-in-trier/
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