The right would like to take part in the new social protests of the left
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Autumn is coming, there are new social protests in the East. The left want to recapture assembly. Can this go well? And what does the Chemnitz band Kraftklub say about it, which sings about “Angst” on their new album?
fthey used to hunt each other. More precisely, some ran away, others followed. “We ran the streets, carried by adrenaline, ran as fast as rabbits, but we were never faster than cars.”
Nazis hunt leftists, that was the nineties in Chemnitz and elsewhere in the East. Felix Kummer talks about this in his songs, but also about why you often only feel pity when you meet one of them, the right-wing extremists, years later.
Today, the left and the right stand side by side on Augustusplatz in Leipzig. Some are holding posters: “No solidarity from the right.” The others are waving home flags. The opponent this time is a common one. The sun is shining, and on the border line between the two camps, where the policemen are waiting, detonators are walking up and down. Today it’s not about right or left, they say, today it’s about those up there. let’s stand together