{"id":7304,"date":"2009-09-07T15:30:34","date_gmt":"2009-09-07T05:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=7304"},"modified":"2009-09-07T20:59:05","modified_gmt":"2009-09-07T10:59:05","slug":"german-defence-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=7304","title":{"rendered":"German Defence League"},"content":{"rendered":"

While several hundred \u00fcber-patriotic football hooligans assembled at pubs, on the streets, and on the buses of Birmingham<\/a> on the weekend, in Dortmund, Germany, 700 neo-Nazis occupied a parking lot.<\/p>\n

Sieg heil!<\/em><\/p>\n

The German patriots had wanted to goosestep through the city but the German courts said —<\/p>\n

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— so the Master Race had to be content with hiding behind masses of police (Verletzte bei Protesten gegen Neonaziversammlung in Dortmund<\/a>, AFP). As is usually the case, there was some argy-bargy between antifa and police, a few injuries, hundreds of arrests, and the neo-Nazis were able to go home safely to prepare for the next occasion they require a police escort. (And piss-all coverage in the English-language press.)<\/p>\n

On May Day this year, ‘autonomous’ nationalists attacked<\/a> a trade union rally in the city, while a German police officer was — gasp!<\/em> — caught on video helping defend the rally by kicking a unionist in the head while he lay prostrate on the ground.<\/p>\n

Bonus!<\/h2>\n

Antifa in Germany have produced a new (to me) video: Uno Di Noi: Ein Antifaschistisches Graffiti In Bochum<\/a><\/em>. It documents the construction of a mural in Bochum, made in order to commemorate the murder by neo-Nazis of seven anti-fascist yoof:<\/p>\n