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A call to block schools, universities and companies!
by: from the anti-fascist youth Leipzig on: October 20th, 2026 - 4:28 p.m. Topics: Worldwide For a month, tens of thousands of students in France have been fighting for an improvement in their living conditions, etc
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But it's not just school that fucks us. Over 16% of the German population is considered low-income, more than one in three students lives below the poverty line (Poverty Report 2025), the richest 1 percent of the German population owns 35% of the private assets (DIW 2025), Generation Z works more than any other generation (IAB 2025), rents in Leipzig have risen by 68% in the last 10 years (BMWSB 2025), almost everyone There is a femicide every day (BMFSFJ 2024), women in Germany earn 16% less than men (DESTATIS 2025), there are more wars in the world than ever before (UCDP 2025), military spending in Germany and the entire world is at an all-time high (SIPRI 2025), around 40% of 18-29 year olds have low psychological well-being (RKI 2024) and suicide is the most common cause of death in young people, accounting for 18% of all deaths (Destatis 2024). The world is racing towards a climate catastrophe, the capitalist economy is in global crisis, the German welfare state is being rapidly dismantled by the Merz government and society is being militarized with compulsory military service for the youth and billions for the Bundeswehr. All the reasons for a revolution are there. But reasons don’t make revolutions – bodies make them. Five German schools have already been blocked and many actions are still being planned! Now we are in demand, because things have to go on!
- Get organized with your friends and classmates and discuss with each other!
- Gather 10-20 people who are ready to block the school entrances from 6:30 a.m.!
- Bring blockade materials, a large music box and banners
- Share the blockade and our demands on social media. This is how we become more!
- Other actions and organizing in political committees help on the way to the Blocus!
- We are not alone. Trainees, students, workers and activists are on the same side of the barricade with us!
But in Germany you can't strike like in France? During the nationwide education strike in 2009, around 300,000 schoolchildren, students and trainees took to the streets in 80 cities, occupied university buildings and even broke into state parliament buildings: proof that protests, strikes and occupations also take place here when people no longer want to accept the existing conditions. Blockages are a first break. They say: We refuse to be part of this machine. But blockages are also fragile things; they arise in a moment and dissolve. To have real power, they must be part of a larger refusal and a step toward founding a new way of being together. It's time to act! The future we are promised is far more dangerous than a revolution! To the adults who want to stop us, we would like to say: Just because you accept your exploitation - treated degradingly, poorly paid, unable to afford even the bare necessities - does not mean that the entire next generation has to endure your cowardly silence. You can find our call as a PDF and JPG file in the attachment. Send out the call! Print out the call, post it and distribute it as a leaflet! Post the call on social media!
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