Statement by A-ryhmä on Finland joining NATO.
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Solidarity with Ukrainian anarchist and anti-fascist resistance [Helsinki, Finland]
Helsinki. Finland. Statement about a solidarity action at Yango in Helsinki. Yango is a Taxi application of Yandex, an IT company connected to the Russian state.
Continue reading Solidarity with Ukrainian anarchist and anti-fascist resistance [Helsinki, Finland]The long relationship between the Finns Party and the far-right in Southwest Finland
In this article Varis Turku will showcase the connections between the Finns Party (Perussuomalaiset) and the far-right in Turku and Southwest Finland (Varsinais-Suomi, Finland Proper). The article can be read as a local example of how the Finns Party has furthered and normalized racism and fascism in Finland, especially during the chairmanship of Jussi Halla-aho. The article was previously published in Finnish.
Image above: Vilhelm Junnila, a Finns Party MP, speaking at the “188 Kukkavirta” demonstration in 2019. Posing on the opposite river bank there are members of the Nordic Resistance Movement and Soldiers of Odin, offering a context to how the relationship between the Finns Party and the rest of the far-right has developed.
Continue reading The long relationship between the Finns Party and the far-right in Southwest FinlandHelsinki, Finland: Banner Against Tigray Genocide
Helsinki. Finland. As a response to the call for a Global Week of Action against the Tigray Genocide and Starbuck’s made by our comrades in the Horn of Africa, we dropped a banner by a busy railway track next to the Helsinki Central Railway Station. The Ethiopian state has waged merciless war against the ethnic minority in Tigray for over half a year, aiming for a homogenous nation state.
Continue reading Helsinki, Finland: Banner Against Tigray GenocideFive theses on the #coronavirus
Finland. March 18, 2020. Like during any crisis, when hit by an epidemic the society is forced to choose its direction where to go. Do we tighten control or do we try to overcome the crisis by building a more sustainable society based on responsibility and solidarity? To us antifascists, feminists and anticapitalists the answer is clear: sharing the burden of the Corona virus evenly is the only sustainable way to push back against the epidemic on all levels of society, and mutual aid is a key part to efficiently mitigate epidemic. This is why we have collected five theses about the social and political nature of the epidemic and about initiatives, which could take us beyond the crisis towards a free, equal and ecologic society founded on solidarity, as opposed to just new series of financial and health crises and states of emergency.
Continue reading Five theses on the #coronavirus#Antifa #Finland: #Moonsorrow touring with National socialist black metal band (NSBM) band #Loits
Finland. National socialist black metal (“NSBM”) band Loits, known for their historical revisionism and Estonian nationalism will be the warm-up act for the famous Finnish pagan metal group Moonsorrow on the Finnish leg of their European tour in 2020.
Continue reading #Antifa #Finland: #Moonsorrow touring with National socialist black metal band (NSBM) band #Loits#Helsinki: Eviction at squat #Kattila!
Helsinki. Finnish territory. December 27, 2019. This morning around 9am police invaded squat Kattila. Many comrades were arrested at the house.
Continue reading #Helsinki: Eviction at squat #Kattila!International call: Come to #Finland to oppose nazi demos on December 6th, 2019
Since 2014, the far right has been organizing demonstrations on the 6th of December, the Finnish Independence Day. This year the nazis of the Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM) are again planning to organize a national socialist demonstration in Helsinki, as they have done for the past three years. Later on the same day, the 612-demonstration gathers together all of,the Finnish far right, with NMR nazis marching side by side with members of the Finns Party. We are calling on all antifascists to come to Finland to oppose these far right demonstrations.
Continue reading International call: Come to #Finland to oppose nazi demos on December 6th, 2019#Finland: Police attacks Kurdish demonstrations, organizers condemn the provocation by police
Finland. On Saturday 19.10.2019 we organized a demonstration against the occupation war of the Turkish state and its allied jihadist wargroups. We have organized similar kind of demonstrations with different kind of topics – at times because of the situation in North Syria or the Turkish domestic policy situation – since year 2014.
Continue reading #Finland: Police attacks Kurdish demonstrations, organizers condemn the provocation by police#Helsinki: About the #Mayday squat – legal repression on the horizon
During this years antiauthoritarian May Day demo a building was squatted an evicted by cops. Five people were arrested, suspected of criminal damage and contumacy to the police.
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