Fuck Arizona, defend Audi workers

Audi Brussel, zondag 13 april om 12:00 CEST

Front d'Action Révolutionnaire, AFA-BXL (source)

This Sunday, April 13, at noon, for Act III against Arizona, a rally has been organized by the Brussels antifascist AG in front of the factory. To support them directly. To rebuild their camp, destroyed by the police. And to warn that the closure of the Audi plant is not just a social disaster, but also a gateway to a militarized future.

Practical infos:

• Rally at the Audi factory : 201 boulevard de la Deuxième Armée Britannique, 1190 Forest

• Let's bring materials to rebuild the destroyed camp.

• Let's bring some food for the barbecue, some banners, some soccer. In short, something to make this afternoon festive!

• And above all, let's bring solidarity and strength. Let's be many !

Forest, April 2025. The Audi factory in Brussels is at a standstill, officially closed since the beginning of 2025. However, it could soon be waking up... in the service of war. A project to convert the plant into a military vehicle factory is being promoted by the Belgian government, as part of a vast remilitarization plan. But some life still stirs onsite.

A few dozen workers, left out in the cold, are still occupying the site. Ignored in the social plan, invisible in the media, they are the ones who, against all odds, are waging a fundamental struggle. For recognition, for their dignity, against the brutality of licensing.

When the closure was announced in July 2024, Audi left over 3,000 subcontractors out in the cold. Management negotiated a few meagre bonuses for some, nothing for others. Those who remain onsite today were left out of these negotiations. They are the ones from whom everything was taken.

Those excluded, left with mere scraps or nothing whatsoever. Those who didn't leave, because they had nothing left to lose. Those for whom the camp they had managed to maintain until then was razed to the ground in less than a night on March 31.

But the camp will be rebuilt. Because they continue to fight, and because they are not alone. To be there on Sunday is to defend their presence on the site, to make their demands a reality, to give them the collective impetus they've been denied for months.

Remilitarization advances on their ruins

What Theo Francken is proposing for the Audio plant is a double humiliation, advancing a brutal social breakdown and erasing the last pockets of resistance. On top of this, his plans would see the ruins of this workplace transformed into war workshops.

This remilitarization is not neutral. It is part of a global project: that of a fascist international, stretching from Trump to Netanyahu, via Macron, Orban and Francken. An authoritarian, colonial security front, which normalizes war as a political horizon.

This mobilization is a refusal to let the concrete of their workshops today be used tomorrow to produce armoured vehicles for neo-colonial wars. It is a refusal to allow social erosion to be a victory for militarism.

Since the invasion of the Ukraine, Europe has entered a new era. An era in which armaments become a budgetary, industrial and symbolic priority. Germany is releasing a trillion euros for its armies. France speaks of a « military nation » and announces record military budgets. In Belgium, the government is falling into line, bowing to pressure from NATO and the arms lobby.

Everywhere, factories, speeches, schools and research are being remilitarized; a war economy is being promoted, while social protection is collapsing.

Waging war on war means standing against the global remilitarization driven by this fascist and imperialist international.

Because the weapons built here don't gather dust on assembly lines - they're deployed to destroy. In Gaza, across much of the African continent, in our neighborhoods, at our borders, and against social movements... they fuel a system of control, dispossession, and terror.

That's why, this Sunday at 12PM, we'll be there. To continue helping to rebuild the destroyed camp. To say that the occupiers' demands are vital, that they are not alone, and that their struggle deserves to be heard. To prevent their silence becoming the condition for a new warlike industrial order.

Supporting Audi workers today means refusing to let a working-class factory be recycled as a war factory. It means continuing to fight with them to ensure that their demands are heard. It also means remembering that antimilitarism is not opposed to the working class - it is an extension of it. It says: not in our name. Not for your war, not on our ruins.

https://acties.todon.nl/event/fuck-arizona-defend-audi-workers

Demonstration May 1st / Manifestation 1er mai

Pl. Marie Janson, Brussels/Bruxelles, donderdag 1 mei om 14:00 CEST

Alliance du 1er mai révolutionnaire (source/source)

Le français en dessous

How many more steps?

How much longer must we be standing by before we can finally say, “Yeah, this is definitely Fascism”? Besides, do we really need confirmation?

The question we should be asking is rather how every step taken by the bourgeoisie in recent years has led us in this direction. How every crisis—economic, climatic, health-related—and every "solution" that they promote has pushed toward identity politics. The precariousness of populations, the repression of activists and young people in marginalised neighborhoods, the trivialisation of the ideas of the extreme-right all stem from the measures taken by the government in response to crises that capitalism itself has created. We are sick and tired of these crises, and we reject these so-called "solutions" that eventually only aim to widen divisions within our class, and drain us of our power.

Fascism and war once again appear to be the only way out for a capitalist system in crisis. The rise of violence leaves us in shock. We are sad, angry, and afraid, but this won’t bring us down to our knees. Faced with this escalation of violence, there is no time to merely express our outrage—it’s time to act. The State wages a permanent war on its own soil against workers, the unemployed, the precarious, gender minorities, young people, the elderly, racialized people, and undocumented individuals. Beyond its borders, it wages war against migrants, the Palestinian, the Kurdish, Sudanese, and Congolese peoples, and even against the biosphere at large. The illusion of the so-called “path of democracy” is becoming harder and harder to swallow, as imperialism reveals its true face. Capitalism is entering a stage of total war, and we no longer have the luxury of choosing whether or not to fight. The only question that matters today is how must we fight and resist against it, together.

Strong mobilisations have emerged recently—e.g. February 13th’s demonstration of class power, the movement for the total liberation of Palestine, the organization of antifascist fronts across various regions, strike pickets (Delhaize, Audi, March 8 etc.), and committees against police violence.

We must capitalize on this momentum of resistance, strengthen solidarity among ourselves, and coordinate our actions.

We cannot expect anything in our favor from those in power. We will never fall in line with their injunctions and lament over the situation, nor will we ever withdraw into ourselves. Let us remain united in the face of state violence. Let us organize, struggle, and refuse to back down.

We call on everyone to join us and stand as one against the attacks of the capitalist state.

There's no time for indignation, it's time for action.

LET’S ALL MARCH UNITED FOR A REVOLUTIONARY MAY 1ST!

Combien de pas encore?

Combien faudra-t-il encore de pas vers le fascisme pour décréter que, cette fois, on y est ? Et finalement, est-ce bien ce qui importe ?

La question qui devrait nous préoccuper serait plutôt comment chacun de ces pas ces dernières années a été fait dans cette direction. Comment chaque crise — économique, climatique, sanitaire — et chaque “solution” portée par la bourgeoisie a permis de converger vers un repli réactionnaire. La précarisation des populations, la répression qui s’abat sur les militant·e·s et sur les jeunes dans les quartiers, la normalisation des idées d’extrême droite et leur implantation dans les politiques gouvernementales sont autant de conséquences des mesures prises en réponse à des crises que le capitalisme a lui-même créées.

Tout cela ne vise en réalité qu’à diviser notre classe pour mieux régner et les solutions proposées par les réformistes ne servent qu’a refouler temporairement l’arrivée de la prochaine crise.

En Europe et au-delà, le fascisme et la guerre semblent être, à nouveau, le seul salut pour un système capitaliste en crise. L’augmentation de ces violences nous laisse dans un état de sidération. Nous sommes tristes, en colère et effrayé·e·s. Mais cela ne doit pas pour autant nous mettre à terre. Face à l’accélération de ces attaques, nous n’avons plus le temps pour l’indignation : il est temps de passer à l’action. L’État mène une guerre de classes permanente sur son territoire contre les travailleur·euse·s, contre les chômeur·euse·s, les personnes précaires, les minorités de genre, les jeunes, les vieux, les personnes racisées, les sans-papiers. Mais aussi hors de ces frontières, par ses politiques imperialistes-coloniales contre les migrant·e·s, contre les peuples palestinien, kurde, soudanais, congolais, et même contre la biosphère en général… Là où le mythe du “camp de la démocratie” est de moins en moins crédible, l’impérialisme montre son vrai visage. Le capitalisme entre dans une phase de guerre totale et nous n’avons plus vraiment le choix : la seule question qui importe aujourd’hui est de savoir comment nous allons résister, ensemble, contre lui.

De fortes mobilisations ont vu le jour ces derniers temps, avec la démonstration de force du 13 février, le mouvement pour la libération totale de la Palestine, l’organisation de fronts antifascistes, les piquets de grève (Audi, Delhaize, 8 mars, etc.) les comités contre les violences policières, etc. Nous devons investir ces espaces de résistance, renforcer la solidarité entre eux et coordonner nos actions.

Refusons de céder à cette injonction à nous replier sur nous-mêmes, restons uni·e·s face à la violence de l’État, organisons-nous, luttons, ne reculons pas. Nous appelons tout le monde à nous rejoindre pour ne faire qu’un contre les attaques de l’État capitaliste.

Plus de temps pour l’indignation, passons à l’organisation.

1ER MAI TOUTE L’ANNÉE.

https://acties.todon.nl/event/demonstration-may-1st-manifestation-1er-mai