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Major police violence against pro-Palestine protestors going on in Amsterdam right now (hexbear.net)

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Seeing reports of people getting beaten up and even thrown in canals by the police. Hundreds of arrests. Police apparently bussed arrested people off to remote parking lots and beat them up without arresting them. We can't get in contact with some comrades who were involved. Shit's really scary.

CW: police violence

https://www.instagram.com/free.palestine.nl

https://www.instagram.com/amsterdam.encampment

Background: Protests have been going on since fascist Israeli football hooligans rioted in the city center last week. Local folks came out in the street and soundly kicked their asses. Both the national government (fascist) and the city government (GreenLeft party, lmao) have fully sided with foreign fascist mobs over their own citizens. They've declared a state of emergency in Amsterdam and heavily restricted protests.

Europe's slow march towards fascism is becoming more of a sprint.

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Germany’s Project for Europe Is in Tatters (jacobin.com)

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Actually interesting article with more imperial-minded framing than typical from jacobin, which is nice to see

As time passed, the design for a new German hegemony expanded to include the entire continental space. The austerity imposed on member states and the boundless eastward enlargement of the EU were the pillars that supported the construction of Germany’s neoliberal empire.

EU enlargement has enabled German industry to be able to stretch value chains to geographical areas dense with relatively cheap, skilled labor and that have “friendly” tax regimes. At the same time, austerity gave German capital a threefold competitive advantage: First, it allowed Berlin to finance public spending at (even) negative interest rates through the “spread” mechanism (i.e. the difference between bond yields in different eurozone member states, as a measure of market confidence). Moreover, it turned the productive apparatus in potential competitor countries into a desert. Added to that, it offered the ruling classes of peripheral countries the ideal motivation to cut wages in areas destined to fit into a subordinate role in German industry’s supply chains, thus lowering the costs of these supplies.

The grim part for germany and humanity is the seeming bloodlust of all political parties in the next elections (cdu/greens/spd under pisstorius/afd (*maybe not against russia, but america seems to be able to fix those oversights see:italy)

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German economy is being hit increasingly hard by the lack of orders. In October, 41.5% of companies reported a lack of orders, up from 39.4% in July. The highest level since the 2009 financial crisis. (www.ifo.de)

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German snap election may not be possible because of ‘lack of paper for ballots’ (www.telegraph.co.uk)

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