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Public opinion happily condemns systemic racism and excessive police force in other countries, but racist police violence is far from limited to the US. It is easy to denounce someone else’s racism. Few Europeans, for one, would easily overlook the pressing issue with racist police violence in the US. The average liberal newspaper goes at length to praise the #BlackLivesMatter
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The action group Michiel the Robber in which Doorbraak also participates, recently announced a protest action against the colonialist and nationalistic content of the movie “Michiel de Ruyter”. Subsequently a fierce public debate burst out regarding this hooligan of the sea. The media and other parties are currently firing all sorts of questions at our action group. So it is
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Anti-Semitism and anti-Muslim racism in the European Union: why we must get rid of the Left’s ambiguities and fight together these two evils, without capitulating in front of the (Left and Right) identitarians who want to divide us. Around 1,1 millions Jews live in the European Union and 19 million Muslims. It’s obviously very difficult to compare the situation of
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In het Nederlands En Français Translation: Frodo Tromp The British organisation Boycott Workfare calls for an international week of action against workfare and sanctions for people claiming benefits, from 25 April until 2 May. Doorbraak supports this initiative and also calls people and organisations in the Netherlands to take action. In both countries already several actions have been planned. Join
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Last week some of us “were” Charlie. Or maybe we “were” Ahmet. Or wouldn’t it be better if all of us “were” Nigerians right now? In fact, last summer we “were all Palestinians”, and just a few months ago all of us “could not breathe”. This expression of commitment to the victims of violence or oppression is certainly not new
Verder lezen Reageren?Freedom of speech is an eternal source of discussion. We keep talking about it. But let’s be honest: do we actually have freedom of speech? And I don’t mean that we have the freedom to say: “I am against this government”. We also we’re not talking about the fact that “the Constitution states that…”. And we certainly don’t talk about
Verder lezen Reageren?In November 2014 two members of Parliament of Turkish origin, Tunahan Kuzu and Selcuk Öztürk, caused quite a stir in the PvdA after their party member and deputy prime minister Lodewijk Asscher announced that in the coming five years he will be investigating the Turkish religious organisations in the Netherlands. The Turkish term for such organisations is Cemaatler and they
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Racism is showing it’s ugly face in the Netherlands. The demonstrations against the racist Black Pete caricature generated reactions that make it crystal clear. We are often told by our supporters that the days of the so very “progressive and tolerant” Netherlands are really over. Our opponents claim that “they” have been quite “tolerant” towards “the allochtons” (= people from
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Doorbraak has published a lot of articles on the issue of forced labour for benefit claimants. The emphasis has mainly been on the regime they have to work under. But equally important is the substitution of regular paid work that is the consequence of forced labour. This substitution undermines the entire system of paid labour: why should an employer pay
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