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Communiqué des Rota Zora (12 juin 1994) - En Anglais

Rote Zora Communique

Against Immigration Profiteers !

Neo-nazi marches, attacks, and murders are once again daily events here in Germany, as is the public political ritual of disgust and pity which follow. The backgrounds of events like Solingen clearly show that racist mobilizations are not merely tolerated by the state and the cops, not only are they called for and desired, but rather even their culmination - murder - is no accident : In Solingen, a neo-nazi gang of murderers was built up, activated, and shielded from persecution with the aid of a state agent. Five Turkish women and girls died as a result. Racist mobilizations are utilized as justifications for new foreigner and immigration policies. Against the background of attacks on refugees, a mood is created which makes possible any sort of inhumane treatment of refugees.

By means of hungerstrikes, demonstrations, visits to state agencies, and refusing to accept food packets, or by throwing them out the window, women and men refugees have protested against their being shut out of the welfare system and instead supplied with food packets. [Asylum seekers used to be paid monthly cash allowances,with which they could shop and buy food for themselves, but now they are only given food packets instead of money. - trans.] While back in their home countries, their means of living were stolen from them, here they must fight against further destruction through racist special treatment. They are struggling against the new special legislation which took effect on November 1, 1993, which labelled them as people of "lower quality" and which denies them a right to a humane existence. For the first time ever in German post-war history, an entire group of people (women, children, and men refugees without German passports) have been singled-out and excluded from the so-called existence-level minimum welfare income standard.

On German soil, the refugees are placed in camps surrounded by walls, fences, and security guards, where they must lived in cramped spaces under miserable conditions. Having fled from countries in eastern Europe, Africa, and Asia, away from nationalist and racist wars and power struggles, from destruction and a lack of a future as a result of the collapse of their social structures, here they are branded as economic refugees and excess population and are regulated by special legislation. The state immigration policies in the refugees’ countries of origin are managed and designed by the wealthy metropolitan regimes and banks so as to push through their patriarchal "New World Order". The people in the impoverished countries of this world have for years been defined as "excess population" by the ruling powers ("global population crisis", "population explosion", etc.).

Those people that actually succeed in making it here are confronted with the same politics and ideology. The special legislation is designed to scare refugees out of even trying to come here and to make those that do come have as unbearable a stay as possible. Also, deportations are to be made as frictionless as possible so that they can be "carried out". After refugees fleeing from the war in Bosnia were only allowed into Germany when private individuals were willing to finance their stay, the so-called Refugee Service Law for newly-arriving refugees set the standard for welfare assistance. This law established a humiliating system of "services" (vouchers, second-hand clothes, forced cleanings...). This absence of cash payment is especially difficult in a world where all life activities and the fulfilment of needs are coupled with money. It makes it impossible for the refugees to take care of themselves, to live in a manner they are accustomed to, to make contacts and discuss their social life with one another, and therefore it hands them over to the racist arbitrariness of bureaucrats. It prevents the exchange of experiences and advice with others, and lawyers no longer receive payment, therefore virtually abolishing any judicial outlets which the refugees may have had. Medical care has also been drastically reduced. Only acute, life-threatening, and contagious sicknesses are treated, but not chronic illnesses or the long-term effects of malnutrition, torture, war injuries, or (sexual) violence. Who and what are to be treated is up to the arbitrary desires of the bureaucrats. A lack of cash payment is coupled with compulsory labour at 2 DM per hour, and refusal to do this work can result in the loss of the ridiculous monthly allowance payment (40 DM per child and 80 DM per adult) - and all of this is coupled with the never-ending prospect of deportation. Anyone who manages to stay for more than three months is no longer prevented from seeking work. However, only the worst and lowest paying jobs, ones which western Europeans won’t take, are available to refugees. Because of the hopelessness of this right to stay provided for in the new (unjust) asylum law, many more refugees, including entire families, are going into illegality. That means an even more insecure existence, hunger, and the need for housing. To be able to live here, many women have no other choice but to hand themselves over to illegal sex traders. One success which the refugee women and men have achieved is that, for example, Cologne is now once again handing out the reduced welfare payments, and Freiburg is as well, at least to those refugees that have been in Germany for at least a year. Some cities and towns are willing to make compromises, partly because providing other services means dealing with loads of red tape and bureaucratic organization. For this reason, Hamburg, Kassel, and many other cities refused to adopt the service proposal. Because the inhumane treatment of refugees is a matter of political interest, a new proposal has since been introduced by Birzele [interior minister of the province Baden-Wurtenburg -trans.] which would extend the service legislation principle to ALL refugees, regardless of how long they have been in Germany. This must be prevented !!! For resourceful businesses, the delivery of food packets can mean a new market and high profits. The market value of these packets is well below what the city officials pay for them. Costs for packaging, transportation, etc. are passed on to the refugees. Therefore, the refugees actually only receive about 50% of the social welfare they are entitled to. Profits can also be increased by sacrificing the quality of the food provided. Old and spoiled food, which can longer be sold in stores, gets put into the refugees’ packets. When the refugees refuse to eat this garbage, the good Germans call them ungrateful. In the business of providing food products to women, children, and men refugees, the entrepreneur Herbert Weigl from Bavaria is the main profiteer who cashes in big from the state’s refugee policies : Weigl’s business in Nurnberg secured a monopoly on providing meals and accomodations for refugees in Bavaria and for refugees in many other provinces as well. In order to maximize his profits, Weigl produces cheap fruit and vegetables in the ex-DDR through a sub-corporation known as MEIGO. MEIGO (situated near Gera and in Berlin) primarily provides for refugees in Saxony, Thuringen, Brandenburg, and Berlin, but also in West German provinces as well, such as in North Rhein-Westphalia. At present, Weigl/MEIGO are earning profits from approximately 20,000 refugees, who (according to a Monitor report published in March 1994) receive compulsory services. Weigl’s meat business in Hircheid in Bavaria delivers meat that has sometimes turned green to refugees, while another sub-corporation, OGEVA in Leipzig, provides the canned foods for the food packets, and the firm CANTOP in Eisenhuttenstadt provides the metal packaging. Food packets are humiliating and demoralizing for refugee women, children, and men. And their degrading housing conditions in hostels and camps (segregated from the rest of the population by means of fences and guards, entering and exiting controls, visits only from camp personnel...) leaves them with no other choice but to eat what they are given. Their last hope for self-care and self-responsibility is thereby destroyed. The practice of food distribution in refugee hostels and camps is a form of compulsory service, like those here in psychiatric institutions and prisons. Alienation and targeted humiliation are designed to prevent self-responsible and self-consciousness action, to reduce social experiences to a minimum so as to break resistance and to command obedience. The German speciality of "perfect" management is forever trying to "transform" people into dependent and bureaucratically controllable masses, on whom human degradations can be easily performed. And yet refugee women and men have made things difficult for the typewriter bastards and the greedy businessmen ! Food preparation and eating take place in a social context. That which we eat, who prepares it and how they prepare it, where and how we eat it, all of these things are connected to our habits, traditions, social structures, etc., with the division of labour by gender on the one hand, and social and technological destruction, alienation, and dispossession on the other. In most societies in the world, patriarchy ensures that women take care of the reproduction of the (men in the) family, or frequently they take care of children without a man, in other words, they do the work and are responsible for it. The special legislation is not gender neutral. The introduction of the so-called Refugee Service Law is especially directed against refugee women. Less-valued compulsory services consciously make caring for the family more difficult, it is a burden for the women, and it makes female reproductive work in the forced camp conditions a familiar additional labour and a depressing task for women with children.

Pre-cooked foods and food packets are also a form of cultural submission and is part of the dispossession and destruction of traditional female life and reproduction activities, and thereby also of the self-knowledge and self-consciousness of women. It prevents a form of host friendship which is usually taken for granted, and it no longer makes possible the communication and social interaction which takes place at a common meal. The special legislation supports the maintenance and renewal of patriarchal violence relations. Because of conditions in the camps, women become even more dependent, both on their men as well as on the racist institutions (the immigration bureaucracy) and their representatives. Male aggression is directed against women who can no longer carry out their roles of being responsible for food and for the family. Housing conditions, the lack of any place of escape for women, the loss of female friendships and relationships...these make the situation for women just about unbearable. Sexual attacks, intimidation, threats, and rapes by staff and other hostel inhabitants are part of everyday life. And problems with language and services further increase the women’s isolation ; it’s not even possible to go shopping for food, thus making it difficult to invite people over or to hold a party. It’s easier for the men to find other means of earning money, because they contend that public life is their sphere and thus they can move about freely, without any responsibilities in the reproductive sphere. Only the very worst paying jobs like cleaning, prostitution, and begging are available to the women. The resistance and struggle of women refugees is primarily concerned with the question of social reproduction, the renewal of social relationships, also among the women themselves, which get largely destroyed due to the conditions of flight and camp life, a struggle which is beyond the criteria of usefulness and sexual availability, violent beatings and subordination, a struggle for life and a humane existence. State refugee policies, which were ushered in by the never-ending wave of pogroms against immigrants and attacks on homeless people, handicapped people, etc., are another step along the path of German post-war history into the realm of previously unknown social polarization. It’s power is derived from racist, sexist, and social attacks, the renewed capitalist patriarchy makes the usefulness of people the standard of measurement for their right to exist and declares those people that are not useful, even those in the metropoles, to be excess population whose right to exist is then openly questioned. Then it becomes justified for these people to receive "special treatment". The special legislation enacted against refugees is part of a continuity of a general form of politics which singles out the elderly, handicapped people, the sick, and the poor. For one thing, this forces adaption and subordination to sharpened conditions of exploitation : rising unemployment and poverty, thereby allowing the expansion and legalization of the so-called second labour market (rotten pay without any social security or protection from lay-offs). These conditions especially effect immigrants as well as women with German citizenship. At the same time, the illegal ("third") labour market is expanded, which is the only realm of employment available for illegal immigrants living here (expanding prostitution and women-trading from eastern Europe, cleaning jobs and black-market commerce, etc.). While the patriarchal structures renew themselves and secure an even better foundation, women are becoming increasingly confronted with sexual violence and exploitation. The high level of unemployment among women, particularly in the ex-DDR, forces women into harmful exploitative relations with sexual harassment in the workplace and a strong economic dependence on men. And men are increasingly becoming organized to counteract attacks against sexual violence carried out by the women/lesbian movement - for example, "abuse of abuse", etc. The threat to the existence (hence their status as "excess population") of illegals, war refugees, and newly-arriving asylum seekers can be directly converted into an expansion of the second and third labour markets, which can be greatly exploited, something which the ruling powers welcome. They function as "dregs" for attacks on the wage system in general, thus allowing the ruling powers to once again stabilize the German economy’s powerful position - and many people welcome this, even so-called "multi-culturalists" ! New laws and regulations in the social sector have practically abolished the old welfare and healthcare system, thus effecting the severely ill, handicapped persons, the elderly, drug addicts, and the homeless. If you don’t work, then you can’t eat, in other words, those that can, pay, those that can’t either shouldn’t live or they should at least die faster. Euthanasia, so-called death assistance, and eugenic measures according to criteria which attach use values to life are now no longer up for discussion, but rather they are being practiced and are in demand.

- The pushing through of pre-natal controls for women with the demand that they bring healthy, productive children into the world, and so that they themselves stay "healthy", that is, productive ;
- The new laws concerning forced sterilization ;
- The murder and neglect of elderly people and people in need of care ;
- The discussion around the "right to life" for newborn handicapped babies ;
- The establishment of so-called ethics institutes which legitimize these measures...

These are all pieces in the puzzle of population politics, which sort people out according to criteria of "valuable and unvaluable life". Once again a mode of conduct in becoming socially acceptable and made into concrete reality, the same one which lead Germany to Auschwitz. Along with the increase in exploitation and poverty, racist, anti-Semitic, and sexist violence and exploitation are on the rise as well. In order to re-establish the patriarchal capitalist power relations, the majority of the white, non-Jewish, German population must be able to take part in social power-sharing (by securing their privileges and allowing them to carry out sexist and racist violence) - they know what they, as whites, as Germans, as men, have to protect. Both the ruling powers as well as the rank-and-file claim that refugee women and men are the ones responsible for unemployment, the lack of housing, and welfare fraud. This serves to strengthen the right-wing nationalist climate and it secures the re-establishment and re-formation of the social consensus.

By means of a variety of actions - campaigns against internment camps, special legislation, and compulsory services, actions against deportations and deportation prisons, beginning to organize places to flee as well as church asylum, and so on - a minority of the population of this society are trying to break this sexist, racist, and anti-Semitic consensus.

Our contribution to this : On the night of June 12/13, we expressed our fiery rage against several trucks belonging to the Weigl/MEIGO corporation in Nurnberg and Meilitz/Gera. MEIGO, Weigl, and all other profiteers : Stop making money off the plight of refugees !!! We support the demands of women and men refugees :

"We want a humane existence !"

"The abolition of food packets and mass-servicing - full payment of all welfare benefits !"

"Cash payments, not services !"

"Against the lack of medical care - for equal medical treatment for all !"

"Against second-hand clothes - full welfare payments !"

"Against forced labour - stop forbidding us from seeking normal jobs !"

"Abolish the racist Refugee Service Law !"

"Abolish all deportation prisons !"

"Against the racist deportation measures - a right to stay for all !"

For the right to exist for all marginalized people, away from patriarchal-capitalist performance and value standards !

A right to stay for all women, children, and men refugees !

June 12, 1994

Rote Zora


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