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International Days of Action: G20 Hamburg 2017

When the heads of government of the world’s 20 most powerful
countries are arriving on 6 July and the assembled world media are
waiting for news from the crisis zone around Hamburg’s exhibition halls,
we’ll be already in the streets.

We are mobilizing internationally to turn Hamburg into a location and
an exclamation mark of resistance against old and new authorities of
capitalism.

A demonstration at the G20 summit’s eve will express protest and
resistance, radical critique and practice against the patriarchal and
capitalist state of affairs. We are resisting the discursive priority of
receptions and fireside chats during the days to follow.

G20 is creating a temporary state of emergency and its political bias
stands for everything we are fighting against. The police and military
are present on the roofs of Hamburg during the summit, and they are
perpetuating capitalist regimes all over the world. Neo-liberal and
protectionist capitalist models are both similarly part of global
exploitation, walling-off and impoverishment.

Whether this cynical violence is going to be obvious or rather
superimposed by grand receptions and beautiful pictures is also at stake
during Hamburg’s hot days. We are opposing the summit as well as any
effort to include political critique and resistance as a part of the
summit’s orchestration as a democratic institution. Summits like G20 and
institutions like IMF, WTO or the World Bank being instruments of
peace, human rights or climate policies is one of the great lies and
illusions of the powers-that-be.

When the pieces of global politics are picked up after the summit on 9
July, capitalism and exploitation will still exist. At the end of the
day, there will be final statements and success-oriented resumes of the
assembled bodies politic and the public. Crises and wars are part of the
capitalist system, likewise protest and scandals are part of the summit
orchestration. It’s up to us to open a new page and new resistance
perspectives.

The apparently unchallenged triumph of capitalism has left behind a
trail of devastation. War is prevalent not only as military conflict,
but as well in more and more people’s minds. A racist mob is mobilising
in Germany, around Europe and all over the world. Racial and nationalist
ideas are getting acceptable again. Among others, right-wing populists
and fascists have managed to accomplish a shift of society’s discourse
to the right.

Strong states and closed borders are being called for more and more
forcefully. Proxy wars for spheres of interests – instruments of world
order created in the century before last and the one before that –
appear more than ever to be legitimate means to achieve political ends.
We are living in a time of rising nationalism and hate towards
minorities. Pogroms against refugees and other population groups beyond
majority, attacks on homosexual, trans* or inter* people as well as the
significance of fanaticism of whatever persuasion are increasing
dramatically.

Migration and flight will be focal points of the summit and of the
protests as well. It’s not freedom of movement for all, not even safe
flight corridors to prevent mass death in the Mediterranean, to be
established. Rather, borders and the flow of goods are being
safeguarded. Cynicism and fishy deals prevail, while the summit is
taking its course.

The logic of capitalist value is supposed to expand into the last
nooks in the metropolises as well as in rural regions‘ periphery. Yet,
world-wide capitalist penetration is also connecting the terrain of
resistance. For instance, resistance against mining projects in Columbia
is linked to urban-political struggles against the coal power station
Moorburg in Hamburg harbor which is using Columbian coal as a resource.

Devastation and migration due to global warming are related directly
to the struggle for the right to stay. Connections of capitalist
exploitation interests can be demonstrated, criticized and confronted
politically. G20 resistance is supposed to focus on these
inter-dependencies on a local and global scale and to develop mutual
relations and resistant practices.

Various and unpredictable mass resistance will disrupt the smooth
proceedings of the summit’s performance. Many people will stand up
against this staging of power – politically and practically. Unlike
civil opposition, we are not going to suggest alternatives in order to
keep the capitalist system alive. We are going to oppose oppression,
exploitation and exclusion with collectivity and solidarity.

Organise yourselves, be creative and contribute vociferously, angrily
and powerfully to the international anti-capitalist demonstration on 6
July. Let this demonstration be a first expression of our resistance and
our unconciliatory antagonism towards the prevailing conditions and the
summit spectacle. Up with social revolution!

We will start on 6 July at 4 p.m. with a great opening meeting.
Cultural, musical and political contributions will be held. From 7 p.m.,
the demonstration will be approaching the red zone and the final
meeting will be held a stone’s throw from the summit’s location in the
exhibition halls.

Don‘t let capitalism get you down – live resistance!

DAYS OF ACTION – 6/7/8 JULY 2017

• *INTERNATIONAL ANTI-CAPITALIST DEMONSTRATION OF THE RADICAL LEFT ON THURSDAY 6 JULY 2017
• *DYNAMIC ACTION IN AND AROUND HAMBURG: MILITARISM, MIGRATION, EXPLOITATION, URBAN RESISTANCE AND OTHER THINGS
• *FORMATION OF OPPOSITIONAL, ANTI-CAPITALIST BLOCKS AT THE MASS DEMO ON SATURDAY 8 JULY 2017
• *AND DURING ALL THIS TIME: RESISTANCE AGAINST THE SUMMIT AS SUCH!
• OBSTRUCT, DISRUPT, DISSECT G20 SUMMIT!
• CAMPAIGN “G20 – WELCOME TO HELL”