Over One Million Protest Against Far-Right Across Germany

Over one million people in Germany have joined protests against the far-right AfD this weekend. The biggest protest hit Munich with 250,000 participants, followed by the capital Berlin with well over 100,000. At least 90 demonstrations were registered on Saturday and Sunday with tens of thousands filling the streets of most major cities including Frankfurt, Cologne, and Hanover. The protests are a response to revelations of the AfD’s secret meeting with the fascist Identitarian Movement. The meeting’s theme was the pursuit of a “remigration“ policy, whereby people with a migration background, including German citizens, would be deported. The Campact network, who reported on the meeting, is calling for three states to ban AfD branches, predicting that a federal ban would fail. Aside from this, there are no clear demands from the protests which are increasingly being co-opted by mainstream parties: the Greens, SPD, and CDU, all of whom have enabled the tightening of racist deportation laws. CDU members were present at the AfD’s controversial meeting and while Chancellor Olaf Scholz attended the massive Hamburg demonstration on Friday, he himself caused shock amongst migrant communities last October when he said Germany should “finally deport on a large scale those who have no right to stay” in the country. #NoAfd #germany #fyp Become a Patreon - Support our Work: Follow us: @redstreamnet