October 31st FFM - a new era of the radical left?

Looking back, everyone who sees themselves as a radical left tended to be skeptical about October 31st and “Gen Z”. The announcements were too vague and the mobilizations too unconventional. Über 30 Städte? And conditions like in France? We, as people who consider ourselves autonomous, were, admittedly, suspicious. Too many years had passed since the last real riots in Germany, and given the police repression in the post-G20 Hamburg period, there were too few opportunities for left-wing radical freedom to develop in the demonstrations.

Then October 31st came and we were simply surprised. Und begeistert. In many German cities, thousands took to the streets; for the first time in many years, large crowds did not allow themselves to be chased through the streets by cops, but rather turned the tables. The cops were properly paved, as in Cologne and Hamburg. Elsewhere, for example in the otherwise well-behaved Stuttgart, thousands took their own demo route and brilliantly confused the cop concept. Shops were looted and barricades were set on fire. Older ones of us felt like we had been transported back to the 1980s, when militancy was still part of everyday German demonstrations.

However, the most beautiful pictures were here in Frankfurt. The authors of these lines were there, initially in a manageable number, because some of them didn't trust the Mobi ("is there really anything going on?") and stayed at home. Many people, including older and more experienced drivers, some who had experienced the times around the runway, joined us over the course of the evening. FFM experienced an hour-long riot, the likes of which the city has not seen since March 18, 2015, when the opening of the ECB was marred by fire and broken glass. In a revolutionary alliance that was obviously no longer considered possible in 2026, radical leftists, together with people from the entire Rhine-Main region, attacked the cops, temporarily beat them back and took the Frankfurt Zeil. Redistribution actions followed, the likes of which Frankfurt had not seen since the violent street battles following the death of Günter Sare over 40 years ago. Wonderful moments of collective freedom, the people took what they needed. Once again it became clear that the cop concept with BFE thug squads hitting the scene reaches its limits when larger crowds offer militant resistance. At practically every corner of the FFM City, hail of stones, pyrotechnics and other things fell on the cops, so that when they were in distress they even fired tear gas grenades with rifles.

We want to take advantage of this new type of uprising and invite militant activists from all over Germany to Frankfurt next Friday, November 20th. We stand in solidarity with other actions in dozens of cities on this day, but we do not believe it would be strategically expedient if we, as the radical left, split up nationwide. We need your courage, your power, and also your "clout" this evening in downtown Frankfurt. October 31st in FFM should not only be repeated, it should be topped. In joint action with others, with young people who have previously been apolitical, with the victims of a society characterized by racism and repression, we will take the city again this evening. Goods from overpriced stores should be brought to the people.

The cops will certainly strengthen their muscles under the black CDU hardliner Poseck, their shame of losing control runs too deep. But anyone who now expresses concerns that radical left-wing actions will not be successful should be told: the cops will not be able to gather thousands of cops due to the other GenZ protests taking place nationwide at the same time. Whether we will take to the streets in a demonstration or not, whether it will be registered or not, we cannot yet say with certainty today.

However, we would like to clearly warn the Hessian Interior Minister and the police at this point: If a demonstration is banned in FFM on Friday, we will turn the entire city center into a field of confrontation. And this time it won't just be a few demolished shop windows. We will lay fire and stones on the metropolis of predatory capitalism. No major German city offers as many suitable targets in the center as Frankfurt: shopping streets from the Zeil to the Freßgass, bank buildings as symbols of the financial world. Therefore, once again urgently: Don't you dare ban or attack our demo.

The revolutionary fire that ignited on October 31st will really break out on November 20th.

Everyone to Frankfurt on November 20th. Let's take the city center. A new era of the radical left has begun.

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