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<nettime> Arrests in Berlin |
On Sunday, December 19, 1999, the "Mehringhof" center in West Berlin, once a squatted complex but now a collectively owned project, has been home to scores of political projects and initiatives ranging from alternative and ecological collectives, Turkish and Kurdish leftist organizations, and autonomist and antifa groups for well over a decade. Despite a marked decline in the strength of the extra-parliamentary left in Berlin over the past few years, police repression against the radical left has never lessened. First came the wave of repression against the autonomist periodical "Interim", then the elimination of the remnants of the squatters' movement, now the recent anti-terrorist police raids on the Mehringhof can be seen as part of the "green-left" German government's determination to cleanse the new capital city of all forms of fundamental opposition. Also, following the murder in Vienna this September of alleged Red Army Fraction (RAF) member Horst Ludwig Meyer and the arrest of Andrea Klump, the German government's current wave of repression aimed at the now-defunct Revolutionary Cells (RZ) is further evidence that the "social democratic" states of the European Union are just as determined as ever to elimate revolutionary social movements, despite the fact that most of the militant armed left in Europe has disbanded itself and given up the armed struggle. Updates on the Mehringhof raids and the repression against the alleged RZ members can be found in German at: http://www.linkeseite.de/mehringhof.htm In order to provide English-language updates on this latest wave of repression, as well as background information on the Revolutionary Cells (RZ) and Rote Zora, Arm The Spirit has set up a solidarity page at the following address: http://burn.ucsd.edu/~ats/razzia.html Solidarity Is A Weapon! Arm The Spirit - December 30, 1999 # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net