We wish all of you a happy new year 2018 with militant political successes – also and especially in view of the shift to the right in Germany and in the EU. Together let us openly attack the madness of the capitalist system and its logic culminating in war and environmental destruction!

After the demise of de.indymedia.org in the first decade of the millennium, the now banned spin-off linksunten.indymedia.org was founded in 2008; at first only with contributions from southern Germany and later from all over Germany. We from Netzdemo Portal have relied very much on the openness and popularity of linksunten.indymedia.org. Of course, many of our announcements for electronic disobedience actions have been posted there.

The ban of linksunten.indymedia.org shortly before the election in Germany took place, rings the alarm bells. The ban is in fact an electional campaign – and an image campaign for Thomas de Maizière, who shows off as being the strong law-and-order man towards the right-wing populist party AfD. But it is also part of a broader pruning of basic democratic rights, from face recognition and data storage to the censorship that has now taken place.

You do not need to look to Turkey to know what comes after the ban on left-wing extremists. Once the censorship has become established, more bans will soon follow. The consequences of such a political shift to the right are already evident in some of Germany’s neighboring countries. We as radical organisation say „We are all linksunten.“