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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
Verder lezen 1 ReactieWhen 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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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
Verder lezen Reageren?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
Verder lezen Reageren?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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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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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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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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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
Verder lezen Reageren?The new generation of struggling refugees appears to be influenced and inspired by, among other things, the Iranian Uprising of 2009 and the Arab Spring and Occupy movements of 2011. It seems that the spirit of autonomous and decentralised resistance that predominated in all these movements is also visible today among the new refugee movement in Western Europe. We talked
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