Demonstration: No fascism in Belgium or in Europe

Categories: Event
Date: 28/05/2019
Time: 18 h 00 - 20 h 00
Location: Place du Luxembourg
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“We, citizens with and without papers, organisations from the social movement in all its diversity (workers’, antiracist, feminist, LGBTI+, antifascist, youth and defense of human rights movements), launch a call to action against the rise of the far right. At the federal and regional level in Belgium, the far right party Vlaams Belang has realised a dramatic breakthrough. In many countries of Europe, like in France, Poland, Hungary, and the United Kingdom, the far right parties are also the great winner of the European elections.

This rise of the far right at the elections of the 26th of May does not come from nowhere. Indeed, the multiplication of repressive, racist, sexist and antisocial measures have been witnessed these last years: the withdrawal of nationality creating second class citizens, the criminalization of the solidarity with migrants and the hunt of the exiled in the Mediterranean sea, numerous impediments to the right to strike or attacks against the professional secrecy for the social workers. These constitute as many direct attacks against our fundamental rights that lead us towards a more authoritarian and unequal regime.

We affirm that the far right has no place in parliaments and governments, nor in our streets, and that our united front will mobilize, as long as necessary and on all the possible fronts, to prevent it from doing any more harm. We call on you to stand up with us against the far right this Tuesday 28th of May at 6pm at Place du Luxembourg.”

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