On August 3rd, activists of the radical far-left Antifa staged a protest against an AfD district party conference in the western German town of Unna.
Many of the demonstrators covered their faces with scarves and sunglasses, despite Germany’s legal ban on facial concealment at public gatherings.
Activists and journalists will debate how to “fight the far right” in a government-backed cultural event.
At a time when Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) has emerged as the most popular political force in the country, overtaking even the traditional parties that have governed for decades, Germany’s state apparatus—together with allied cultural and media organisations—is intensifying efforts to isolate and discredit it.
As we already reported, Jette Nietzard, national spokesperson of the Green Youth Party, has hinted at the possibility of armed resistance if Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) manages to enter government after the 2029 federal elections. Her statements, made in a podcast by the public broadcaster RBB and repeated in an interview with the weekly Freitag, have sparked outrage due to their political and social implications.
Germany’s main ruling party, the Christian Democratic CDU, has been dropping in the polls for the fourth consecutive week while the right-wing opposition AfD keeps rising, as the latest polling data shows them being neck and neck for the second time since the February election.
Germans reject a ban on the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) by a majority of 52% to 27% in favour, according to a new representative survey published by the Allensbach Institute polling organization on Saturday.
The proportion opposed to a ban rises to 65% in the east of the country, according to the poll published by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung daily newspaper, while it falls to 49% in the western states. The AfD enjoys widespread support in the formerly communist eastern states.
The pollsters found a range of reasons for rejecting a ban on the party, which is monitored as a far-right extremist organization by the domestic intelligence agencies.
The main reason was that respondents were familiar with AfD supporters, with 67% of west Germans and 88% of east Germans having AfD supporters in their circle of acquaintances. These acquaintances were seen in a much more sympathetic light than the party itself.
In other words Germans know who the real NAZIS are. h/t DS
Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) members have been banned from public-sector roles by the regional government of Germany’s sixth most populous state. A new policy in Rhineland-Palatinate requires candidates to submit a written declaration of loyalty to the constitution, and to state that they have not been a member of an extremist organisation in the last five years. Anyone who fails to pass this test will not be permitted to take up any public-sector role in the region.
Germany’s ruling Social Democrats have launched a push to ban the AfD, the country’s main opposition party and the second most popular in February’s election. The move follows a key resolution passed at the SPD’s party congress in Berlin on Sunday, which calls for setting up a legal task force to lay the groundwork for the ban.
What looks like just another attack on the so-called “far right” actually reveals a troubling trend in German politics: parts of the establishment are trying to rewrite the rules of democracy when a political party—backed by millions—dares to stand up to them.
Right-wing extremism and racism have spread significantly in the city of Dessau, in the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt. This has also become visible as graffiti: swastikas, pro-Hitler images and Nazi slogans are a common sight on the streets.
It’s become a trend across cities and regions in Germany — especially in the east. Holger Münch, head of the Federal Criminal Police Office, warned in May that authorities have increasingly seen a “radicalization of very young people with far-right views,” some of whom are organizing to “commit serious crimes.”
DW manufactures state propaganda.
The German establishment are so panicked by the success of the AfD they have begun arresting people for insulting politicians.
The Great Replacement will have great consequences.
Not content with working towards banning the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), German leftists are now discussing denying organ donations to the right-wing opposition party.
In an alarming display of ideological instrumentalization of state institutions, the Bundestag’s police commissioner, Social Democrat Uli Grötsch, has openly called for the expulsion of all police officers who are members of Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), the country’s number one opposition party. The proposal has ignited a political storm, as it signals an unprecedented political purge within one of the pillars of the state: law enforcement agencies.
Hans-Georg Maaßen is a German lawyer and former senior civil servant who served as President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, from 2012 to 2018. He is known for his critical stance on government immigration policy and for publicly opposing the political instrumentalisation of intelligence services. Since leaving office, Maaßen has become an outspoken political commentator and a prominent voice within Germany’s conservative circles.
Some historical events possess such enduring power that they continue to haunt our imagination and fears centuries later. The German Peasants’ War, brutally suppressed in May 1525, is one such event. Involving at least a hundred thousand people—probably many more—it was, as British-Australian historian Lyndal Roper observed, “the greatest popular uprising in western Europe before the French Revolution.” The rebellion spread from what is today southern Germany across Austria, Switzerland, France, and Hungary. The peasants’ famous Twelve Articles—formally titled “The Just and Fundamental Articles of All the Peasantry and Tenants of Spiritual and Temporal Powers by Whom They Think Themselves Oppressed”—demanded nothing less than ”Freyheit“ (Freedom).
Parties opposed to the Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) continue to block it from exercising its rights—all in the name of stopping “fascism.”
Germany’s self-proclaimed democracy defenders are at it again: blocking a law-abiding party from exercising its rights—all in the name of protecting democracy.
The Alternative for Deutschland (AfD), a pro-free market, anti-EU, anti-mass migration party, placed second in Germany’s recent parliamentary elections, earning nearly 21 percent of the vote to the top vote-getter’s, the Christian Democratic Union’s, 28 percent. The AfD placed well ahead of the once-dominant Social Democratic Party (16 percent) and the Greens (11 percent).
“The designation of the AfD as an extremist party is a political, not a legal verdict. It is not a decision of the Supreme Court but of the internal intelligence services under the Ministry of the Interior led by Nancy Faeser, who made this decision days before she had to leave office after the defeat of the SPD. This happened on May 2nd, and the following week, with the election of Friedrich Merz as the new Chancellor, Faeser ceased to be Minister, so the political intentionality of this affair is evident. The report of the internal secret services was not sent to us beforehand, so we did not know what we were accused of, however, it was sent to several newspapers in order to generate a scandal. Now we have it and we have seen that these are public opinions, such as tweets or speeches, that is, there is nothing secret, and that they are also covered by freedom of speech; there is nothing criminal in those opinions. For example, I am mentioned in the report for tweeting “#Alice for Germany.“ That’s ridiculous. There is nothing extremist, there is truth and common sense.”
It was supposed to be the killer blow to a party which has stalked the nightmares of Germany’s political elite: a bombshell intelligence report with proof that Alternative for Germany [AfD] was a Nazi-style extremist group.
Running to more than a thousand pages, the report by Germany’s BfV domestic intelligence agency announced that the AfD was a “confirmed Right-wing extremist organisation”, opening the door to a total ban on the party.
But instead of turning the AfD into a pariah, the report has triggered a furious row over the rise of censorship in Germany, and damaged relations between its new government and the Trump administration.
It means success.
