Two weeks before the Hessian state elections, numerous parties were, as always, present in the Kassel interior, to take advantage of the sunny election campaign weekend. For the AfD, however, Saturday went differently than planned.
Am 6. On December 1st, Antifa Kassel organized a demonstration against the regular regulars’ table of the Alternative for Germany in the pub “Zur Marbachshöhe”. Because the regulars' table has so far taken place in secret, this will have particularly annoyed the currently rather ailing district association.
About 100 people were last Saturday, the 5. November, followed the appeal of the Kassel solidarity group for the imprisoned anti-fascist Lina. The Kassel-born student has been sitting since 5. November 2020 in custody, because the federal prosecutor accuses her, to have been involved in the planning and implementation of actions against neo-Nazis.
As in many other German cities, protested on the evening of 02. February 2022 scarce in Kassel 180 People against the Turkish army's air raids on various places in Kurdistan.
The initiative organized on Liberation Day “Anti-fascist May” a demonstration with several intermediate rallies, at the up to 500 People participated. Under the motto “Remember. resistance. Consequences. " attention was drawn to right-wing activities in Kassel and left-wing struggles were taken to the streets.
In the second week of September that took place in the north of Kassel “Nach dem Rechten sehen” Festival takes place. Hundreds of people came to hear together over five days, Discuss and spend time together.
Am 8. May public events also took place in Kassel despite Corona, to approach the end of the war 75 Years to remember. Numerous left groups were calling for the German Federation of Trade Unions (DGB), Kassel Peace Forum and Association of Those Persecuted by the Nazi Regime - Association of Antifascists … ▷
Before today 75 years, am 8. May 1945 The Second World War in Germany ended with the unconditional surrender of the Wehrmacht. The Kassel communist Willi Belz experienced the long-awaited end of Hitler's Germany on the Eastern Front, but on the side of the Red Army.