The Bündnis
gegen Rechts Leipzig (Leipzig Anti-Right Wing Alliance,
now alliance against reality )
was founded as an alliance between single members of
antifascist groups, parties, and associations in 1996.
What triggered it of was the tremendous increase in
right wing attacks in the town of Wurzen (cf. also booklet
on Wurzen), as well as the establishment of
powerful structures of Nazi associations - especially
independent groups called Kameradschaften - in the
town near Leipzig. It was assumed that in order to
fight the right wing hegemony in and around Wurzen the
classical autonomous antifascist policy has to be
overcome. Therefore the BgR was to be an alliance
comprising organisations from different political
spectra and with different political approaches. On
November 16th 1996 the BgR mobilised more than 6,000
antifascists to participate in a nation-wide protest
rally in Wurzen. Our activities in Wurzen, though,
were not restricted to the demonstration, but continue
until today.
Over the years the scope of our subject area extended
largely, e.g. the mobilisation against the marches of
the NPD (German National-Democratic Party) on May Day
1997 and 1998, the nation-wide antifascist
demonstration in the town of Saalfeld on March 14th
1998, a campaign against social work with Nazis in Grünau,
Leipzig, the Verstärkerkongress (Congress on Nazi
Dominance and Cultural Hegemony) in October 1999, or
the nationwide demonstration "Save the Resistance
- gegen Überwachungsgesellschaft und
Sicherheitswahn" (against a supervising society
and security-mania) on October 14th 2000 in Leipzig -
to mention only a few.
Today the BgR is no longer characterised by being an
alliance, but an autonomous (independent of any
organisation/party, beyond parliamentary politics, and
revolutionary) antifascist group with the intention to
work continuously on various practical and substantial
subject matters and to participate in nation-wide
mobilisations and discourse without neglecting our own
neighbourhood.
Bündnis
gegen Rechts Leipzig
November 2000
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