Stop social cuts – class struggle instead of rearmament!

On the night of Wednesday to Thursday, unknown activists left several stencils at the entrance to the SPD Braunschweig.

On Thursday morning, the words “Stop social cuts” and “The rich want war – they can have it” could be read on the window. Brecht's “In Consideration” was also quoted:

"In consideration of our weakness, you made laws that are intended to enslave us. Let the laws be disregarded in the future, considering that we no longer want to be slaves."

The action took place a few days before the local elections in Braunschweig. Because the local SPD cannot be separated from the politics that its party supports at the state and federal level. Anyone who campaigns locally with the SPD logo must also be measured by what is decided and implemented elsewhere under this logo.

While basic security and other social security measures are being tightened and cut and the next “reforms” in pensions and the welfare state are already being discussed, enormous amounts of money are available for rearmament.

The message is clear: those who have little should do without. Those who are dependent on social benefits should be more closely monitored, sanctioned and put under pressure. Employees should work longer and worry about their social security.

But when it comes to the military, weapons and armaments, suddenly different rules apply. Then there is money available.
This policy is not an obligation. It is a class decision.

While there is an argument at the bottom about who gets a few euros less, billions are being distributed at the top. While social insecurity grows, the population should be sworn to war.

We are supposed to pay for a crisis that is not ours. We should do without while others benefit.

The depth of the crisis in social democracy was recently shown in the state elections in Saxony-Anhalt. The SPD once again ended up in the single digits, while the AfD was by far the strongest force.

Then came the familiar declarations: the social question had to be taken more seriously again. You have to regain trust. You can't just carry on as before.
But that's exactly what happens.

The SPD is sticking to the federal government with the Union and is therefore supporting a policy that does not combat social insecurity, but rather further exacerbates it.

At the same time, the debate in parts of the party is already moving in a different direction. After the election, Markus Bauer, SPD district administrator in the Salzland district, called for the AfD not to be ruled out as the strongest force and for discussions to be held about the possibilities of forming a government.

The problem cannot be solved with Sunday speeches.

You can't help manage social cuts for years, put people under economic pressure and subject public services to the red pen - and then be surprised when social rights become stronger.

And you can't constantly warn about the AfD while at the same time there are discussions within your own ranks about handing over political responsibility to it.

Anyone who wants to take away the ground from the right must fight the conditions in which it thrives: social insecurity, competition, fear of decline and the experience that money is always there for the interests of those who have money, while the rest have to do without.

Your policy also has a local address. That's why the stencils were placed where this policy also has an address in Braunschweig.

Elections do not change the fact that our interests are opposed to the interests of those who benefit from exploitation, social cuts and rearmament. Our response to this cannot be to tick every few years and then hope that parties will fight our battles for us.

We have to organize what we want to fight for ourselves.

Against social cuts and rearmament.

Against shifting their crises onto our shoulders.

Against a policy that finds billions for weapons and cuts money for those who already have little.

Your crisis – not our bill.

Stop social cuts!

Against rearmament and war policy!

Class struggle instead of peace!

Class struggle now!

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