FIR protests against all forms of governmental historical revisionism With great concern, the FIR pursues governmental forms of the history revision in different European countries. The delegates of the XVIII FIR Congress at the end of November had rejected the scandalous declaration of the European Parliament of 19 September 2019….
On 29 November in Reggio Emilia (Italy), the 18th regular congress of the FIR begins. Delegates from over 15 European countries and numerous guests from social organizations will participate. The Mayor will welcome the delegates in the “Sale de Tricolore“, the historic hall of the city, before the work of…
FIR News 2019-46 Antifascisme is relevanter dan ooit! English translation below / Ter voorbereiding van het komende XVIIIe reguliere congres a.s. 30 november in Italië presenteerde het uitvoerend comité van de FIR een voorstel voor een politieke verklaring voor de komende tijd, die is opgenomen in de volgende fragmenten: De…
Declaration of FIR on behalf of the EP-resolution. Europese Unie – Historisch revisionisme: Zie ook Verklaring NCPN en CJB over de anticommunistische resolutie van het Europees Parlement ondersteund door bestuur AFVN/BvA. On 19 September 2019, the EU Parliament in Strasbourg passed a resolution that allegedly dealt with the “significance of…
Already several times, the FIR and their member federations raised their voice against many efforts of the rehabilitation of the fascist collaborators in the Baltic republics. Already 20 years ago, we protested against the glorification of SS members in Estonia. For several years, we have been supporting the actions against…
Een wereldwijde oproep om het internationaal recht te redden. Sinds 1945 is het Handvest van de Verenigde Naties het belangrijkste contract voor de betrekkingen tussen de natiestaten van de wereld – het fundament van het internationale recht. Vandaag de dag is het internationale recht en de structuur van een op…
A Global Appeal to Save International Law. Since 1945, the Charter of the United Nations has been the most important contract for relations between the nation-states of the world – the very foundation of international law. Today, however, international law and the structure of a rules-based order that the UN…
Een belangrijke verklaring over het omgaan met geschiedenis Rusland De Russische minister van buitenlandse zaken Sergei Lavrov voelde zich gedwongen om commentaar te leveren op de historische aanvallen op Rusland in een fundamenteel artikel. We citeren enkele aspecten van deze inzichtelijke tekst: Onze tegenstanders proberen de rol van de Sovjet-Unie…
Bulletin of the International Federation of Resistance Fighters – Association of Antifascists
20 years ago, the world experienced NATO aggression against Yugoslavia. It began with the lie of “genocide in the Balkans”. The German Foreign Minister even wanted to prevent a “new Auschwitz”. In fact, there were violent tensions in the Balkans after the Federal Republic of Germany in particular had supported…
At the beginning of February 2019, the US administration put its threat of last autumn into practice and cancelled the bilateral treaty with Russia on the destruction of nuclear medium-range systems (INF) concluded in 1987. This decision was linked to the assertion that Russia had not adhered to the treaty…
The International Federation of Resistance Fighters (FIR) – Association of Antifascists reminds on 27 January not only of the anniversary of the liberation of the extermination camp Auschwitz in 1945, but in this year also of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the city of Leningrad with the break-through…
FIR News Special edition Met o.a. bijdrage AFVN/BvA op pagina 15 Op naar een aktief en strijdbaar 2019!
Wir wünschen allen Kameradinnen und Kameraden, Freunden und Mitstreitern ein gutes und friedliches Jahr 2019
In the 80’s the International Federation of Resistance Fighters (FIR) – Association of Anti-Fascists, the umbrella organization of former partisans, deportees, Nazi persecuted and their relatives, fighters of the Anti-Hitler coalition and anti-fascists of today’s generations, was provided by the United Nations with the honorary title “Ambassador of Peace”. This…
The International Federation of Resistance fighters (FIR), in whose ranks numerous fighters of the International Brigades and their today’s political companions are united, reminds that 80 years ago, at the end of September 1938, the republican government decided the withdrawal of the International Brigades. On September 28, 1938, in the…
9/11 – 9 September is a date of American history in two perspectives. Not only is it the day the New York Twin Towers were attacked, it is also the day 45 years ago, September 9, 1973, when Socialist and Chilean President Allende was overthrown by a coup d’état and…
In the last weeks, four rounds of discussions with the Secretary General of the FIR took place in Düsseldorf, Frankfurt / M., Magdeburg and Vienna. It was an overview of the political influence of the extreme right on government policy, but also about the social influence, without being in government,…
The former Secretary-General of the United Nations passed on 18 August 2018 in the presence of his family after a short illness. Annan was 80 years old. Kofi Annan was born on April 8, 1938. He spent most of his working life at the United Nations. In 1997, the Ghanaians…
Der deutsch-sowjetische Krieg 1941-1945: Geschichte und Erinnerung im Licht neuer Forschungen Freitag, 12. Oktober / Samstag 13. Oktober 2018 Beginn: Freitag, 13.00 Uhr / Ende: Samstag, 12.30 Uhr Tagungsort: Max-Mannheimer-Haus. Studienzentrum und Internationales Jugendgästehaus Roßwachtstraße 15 85221 Dachau Der deutsch-sowjetische Krieg 1941-1945 war die gewaltigste und die opferreichste Konfrontation des…
Von Ulrich Schneider 20.07.2018 Lesedauer: ca. 3.5 Min. Während jedes Jahr bei der Feierstunde am 20. Juli im Berliner Bendler-Block, dem ehemaligen Sitz des Oberkommandos der Wehrmacht, ein Vertreter der Bundesregierung – diesmal Außenminister Heiko Maas – der mutigen Frauen und Männer des 20. Juli 1944 gedenkt, zeigt die Bundeswehr…
Wij mochten hem verleden jaar bij de FIR conferentie in Praag ontmoeten. Pavel, een optimist in de strijd tegen fascisme. Een man uit een stuk, een held. Zie hieronder in het bericht van de FIR op welke fronten hij tegen het fascisme heeft gevochten. Hij deelt zijn sterfdag met Diny…
Under this title took place on May 5/6 2018 an international anti-fascist conference in Belgrade invited by the Serbian veteran association SUBNOR. Among the approximately 100 guests of the conference were eleven different national delegations form all states of former Yugoslavia, from Albania, Greece, Hungary, Bulgaria and representatives of the…
Expositie Bevrijdingsmuseum Groesbeek: De Communisten. In Verzet tegen Fascisme en Kapitaal Communists in the resistance to fascism and capital Exhibition and symposium in the Netherlands While we often in recent months have had to report on historical revisionism, this time we can annotate a good example of anti-fascist historical work….
Ook dit jaar zijn de tienduizenden slachtoffers van de fascistische terreur in de Eemslandkampen weer herdacht in het Duitse Esterwegen, vlak over de grens. Waarschuwend voor het herlevende fascisme sprak daar op 12 mei 2018 Ewout van der Hoog, secretaris van het Comité van Waakzaamheid. Hij deed dit mede namens…
Mitgekommen aus Holland und neben mir steht Hein van Kasbergen, Sekretär des Anti-Fascistisch Verzet Nederland / Bond van Antifacisten. Diese AFVN ist damals von kommunistischen Widerstandskämpfern gegründet worden und ist Mitglied der Fédération Internationale des Résistants — FIR. Meine Name ist Ewout van der Hoog. Ich komme ebenfalls aus den…
Jaarlijkse herdenking van het concentratiekamp Esterwegen. Meer lezen: Folder Esterwegen 8 Mei is de geschiedenis ingegaan als dag van de bevrijding van het Duitse fascisme. Het is belangrijk voor ons deze dag te herdenken, omdat de bevrijding de voorwaarde is voor de ontwikkeling van democratie en een leven in vrede.Nederland…
Международная Федерация Борцов Сопротивления (ФИР)– Ассоциация Анти-фашистов приветствует всех участников Дня Освобождения, Дня Победы и памятного«Бессмертного Полка». While in recent weeks we have had repeatedly to warn of historical oblivion and historical revisionism, this time we can name various positive examples of anti-fascist remembrance work. In recent days, commemorative…
Beste lezers en anti-fascisten. Op zaterdag 5 mei 2018 worden de drie overigen herdenkingsplateau’s aan de grens bij Bad Nieuweschans, in de Kanaalpolder en bij de pont in Petkum onthuld. Zie de uitnodiging en het progamma in de bijsluiter. flyer_de Wij doen een verzoek aan u om de uitnodiging met vrienden en…
For several years now, the FIR protested against state efforts of historical revision in the Baltic republics and in Poland. This year again, under the protection of the state organs and with the participation of representatives of the state in Latvia, the veterans of the SS-associations and their friends marched…
The FIR welcomes the various activities of the German peace movement and the peace forces in other countries on these Easter holidays. As United Nations “Ambassadors of Peace”, the FIR and its member federations have been working for decades to overcome the East-West conflict, to achieve comprehensive disarmament and to…
Bron: FIR Demonstrations and other events in several European countries, March 17, 2018 The UN’s International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination was inaugurated in 1966 to commemorate the 1960 Sharpeville massacre, which saw 69 anti-apartheid protestors killed and 178 wounded for taking to the streets against the regime’s…
Italy: Together against neo-fascism and racism ANPI and trade unions organized mass-meetings in about 120 cities March 4, in Italy the electoral campaign for the parliament ends. Because the danger of the empowerment of the right-wing forces like Forza Nuova, Fratelli d’Italia, Lega Nord or open fascist groups like Casa…
FIR: maart 2018 | Bulletin 47 englisch 1
The member federations of FIR have been making great efforts for many years to ensure an honorable memory of the antifascist fighters and the liberation by the anti-Hitler coalition. Even when government agencies boycott such commemoration work, worthy events take place, as our Hungarian association MEASZ repeatedly shows. On the…
This weekend again more than 1000 neo-Fascists from Bulgaria and other European countries held a public event in Sofia. They showed again Nazi uniforms and fascist symbols. In slogans, they offended refugees, foreigners and Turkish minorities in the country. The protest against this march was wide. More than 175.000 person…
On February 2, 2018 the International Federation of the Resistance fighters (FIR) – Association of Anti-fascists celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Red Army’s victory of Stalingrad. The way to Stalingrad was signed by murdering, homicide, exploitation, suppression and destruction – done by German fascism and its allied. Coventry, Rotterdam,…