“Counter-Demonstration in Bochum: Young Anti-Fascist Gives Powerful Speech and Bochum Peace Plenum Member Questions Unity Against Right-Wing”

The loud protest against the right-wing alliance was the focus of yesterday’s counter-demonstration to the march of “NRW awakens”. However, two notable speeches were also made. A young anti-fascist made it clear: »The name of the event, “NRW awakens”, shows the true attitude of the organizers. On the one hand, the “awakening” in the title refers to the narrative of the “sleeping sheep” in lateral thinking jargon, the ignorant who have not yet woken up. The title is also strongly reminiscent of that of des Storm song “Germany awake” from 1920, which is brimming with National Socialist propaganda and anti-Semitic hate speech. Anti-Semitism, which in general is an important link between neo-Nazis and conspiracy ideologists.« The full speech.

In his speech, Ralf Feldmann from the Bochum peace plenum doubts that Bochum is united against the right: »Because right-wing begins in the middle of our society, also in our urban society. Three years ago, the CDU, FDP and AfD in Thuringia jointly elected a prime minister, bad enough, but only for a short time, until Bodo Ramelow, the left, made it again. Christian Haardt, then chairman of the CDU Bochum and mayor candidate, called Ramelow a “social fascist” in the WAZ and the electoral community with the AfD – where it is particularly extreme, as in Thuringia – is not a breach of a taboo. What did that lead to? Haardt, the middle-class lawyer, was elected directly to the council in Stiepel, where the city society sometimes even rates itself as the best, and the CDU retained him as parliamentary group leader for a long time. firewall right? No. There’s a passage from mainstream society through the holes they call the firewall.” The full speech.