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INPRIMATU
Trying to tie up the fights
Nekane Txapartegi 2025eko maiatzaren 21

I have had days of visits, experiences and reflections. There I am, trying to make intersectionality a reality, trying to connect struggles, trying to say all the points as bertsolaris, without pounding...

From the community radio station LoRa where I work, we organized a round table on freedom of expression on May 1 with journalists from Palestine, the Philippines and Kurdistan. I narrated, among other things, the closure of the media and the political persecution in the Basque Country. Once again a surprise, because few people know how they have built a discourse imposed on the Basque Country and disseminated internationally. They assume from the public that there is persecution in these other countries, but in Europe? Colonization, assimilation policies, occupation, militarization, torture... as if they started from the other side of the sea. Again certification: the narrative of the colonists remains.How to deconstruct it?

Fifteenth femicide in Switzerland. I'm just a group chat. In addition to denouncing, we will conduct a course of feminist self-defense. In the square baptized with this name we will hang photos and texts. Lately they don’t last long, in our opinion they are removed by neo-Nazi groups.

At the same time, the solidarity group of Daniela Klette [activist and former member of the Red Army Faction (RAF), imprisoned since 2024] is also in Zürich. Beyond the importance of the transmission of history and its sinister prison conditions, we talked about the need to organize solidarity and its difficulties, because he is pro-Palestinian. We talked about this more extensively with some friends from Berlin. After 30 years of flight, two members of the German clandestine organization K.O.M.I.T.E.E have just returned from Venezuela. After a dinner we were told about the drama of the left movement behind the discourses that the newspapers normalize. The contradictions of the Middle East issue on the left in Germany are not new. In recent years and months, however, the attitude of the so-called Antideutsches has become incomprehensible and the whole movement has exploded and fragmented, from antifa to queerfeminism.

Unlimited stickers with the Star of David can be found in streets and bars, while in social gatherings of the autonomous left, wearing the “Palestinian kufiya” is frowned upon or forbidden

The Antideutsches recognize and support the existence of Israel by declaring themselves the custodians of the Jews. Ignoring the consequences that this moral debt brings, and everything that it says that I have the existence of Israel is considered anti-Semitic. Unlimited stickers with David’s star can be found in the streets and bars, while in the social gatherings of the autonomous left, wearing the “Palestinian kufiya” is frowned upon or forbidden. While I am reflecting on how to link struggles, others have no problem in unifying anti-fascism and a colonial project.

In order to round up the article, while my head is smoking, I have received news of Iratxe Sorzabal’s confession of torture. It's caused me a lot of excitement, it's made me get out of my previous thoughts. What we knew, what we said out loud and denounced, has been taken by a Spanish court to accept. So I remember his mother, his daughter, those around him, the members of the prison, the tortured and especially all the women tortured. As well as the words written by Iratxe:

They stripped you, they stripped me/ They beat you, they beat me/ They raped you, they raped me/ They burned our body skin with electrodes/ They beat us with a plastic bag/ But we are alive and we are free/ They confessed to you. I've been confessed. We've been recognized.