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How to identify the sources of Left anti-Semitism in order to fight it

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Oude antisemitische poster.

“And yes, we can oppose Israel’s foreign policy without being anti-Semitic.” (David Rachline, mayor of Fréjus, member of the proto-fascist National Front) The first painful revision we must make, if we really want to get rid of the ambiguities of current Left anti-Zionism, is to fully recognize the existence of an old anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, anti-Semitic tradition, particularly in the Left

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Rightwing populist Wilders promotes forced labour for the jobless

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Doorbraak activists regularly talk to unemployed people and forced labourers about the misery they experience every day. From time to time it emerges that they put their faith in Geert Wilders. “The PVV is the only party defending our rights against the government”, they will say. The former VVD (conservative liberal party) politician who moved further to the right indeed

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Why the Dutch Never Learned From the Nazi Holocaust

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When Dutch Antilleans took an aggressive stance last year to ban the blackface tradition of a national christmas holiday, it evoked a hysterical and hostile backlash among the country’s white majority. A family holiday that appeared capable of binding a fractured and divided nation had become a politically charged battleground. Black critics of the tradition were mocked, humiliated, harassed, threatened

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Wilders’ Best Friends Forever

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Campagnelogo.

Hey! Your posters have really extremist and shitty citations! That’s right. We also think these are shitty and extreme Right citations, and we have printed them with a heavy heart. But the cited texts are not ours. The new European friends of Geert Wilders made these statements. And Wilders thinks all of his new friends are wonderful. Just so you

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Dutch Labour Party (PvdA) meeting in Leiden on how to “decently” impose more forced labour

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The January 8 meeting of the Partij van de Arbeid (Labour Party) in Leiden on the government bill by state secretary Jetta Klijnsma showed in a nutshell the kind of inequitable, patronising and even openly derogatory behaviour that is displayed by a substantial part of the social democrats versus those who receive social benefits. Here is an analysis of an

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Resistance to racism intensifies in the Netherlands

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The reality of everyday violence caused by institutionalized and historically embedded racism in the Netherlands is bringing about new forms of resistance among the country’s most marginalized, challenging the boundaries of Dutch politics and national identity. A march organized against racism on March 22 was the most public and organized expression of this new wave of discontent. “We are all

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Successful protest in Leiden: “You will regret every minute you force us to work for free”

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Trees decorated with balloons with flyers in the centre of the square right in front of the DZB forced labour centre.

On November 27th, 2013, in front of the forced labour centre DZB in Leiden some 45 people have warned politicians, civil servants and employers against using forced labour. The protest took place during the ceremony of awarding the ‘Eureka’ prize by the management of the centre. The protesters gave speeches, chanted slogans, handed out flyers (this had been forbidden by

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Making the forced labor center ungovernable

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Flush forced labour through the toilet.

The struggle continues against the forced labor center DZB in Leiden, where welfare recipients must work without receiving real wages. After successful actions on May 1st and 2nd, the emphasis of Doorbraak’s actions in these coming months will be on undermining the governability of the center.. The original text in Dutch(june 21st, 2013) Translated into English by Jaap On May

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What the Dutch Black Pete-debate is really about

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Pierre le Noir.

In the past three weeks we have published two very widely read and discussed articles by Doorbraak activist Matthijs van de Sande about the racism of Black Pete: “Black Piet and racism: some critical (and spiced) notes” and “Racism is not an opinion”. We do not want to deny you his contributions to the Belgian discussion about ‘our’ blackface tradition.

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The political Left is not always averse to forced labour

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Labour was central to the Sovjet system.

It is striking that Dutch socialist organisations show relatively little interest in the emerging battle of the unemployed against forced labour. Although the more established social-democrat parties and unions are now sparingly showing some solidarity, none of them is taking a principled stand against forced labour let alone more in general against forcing people into wage slavery. “Everyone to the

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