Anti-NATO Events in Krakow

poland / czech / slovak | imperialism / war | news report Saturday February 21, 2009 19:10 by Akai - ZSP

No War but Class War!

In response to the meeting of defense ministers of NATO countries held in Krakow, anarchists organized a conference and demonstrations.

On 18 of February there were anti-militarist films. The main events, a demo and counterball, were held on Feb. 19. A few hundred people demonstrated against NATO, mostly anarchists. They had slogans such as "The government to the front" "No war but class war" and "NATO - legal terrorists".

During the demo there were some speeches and a march to the location of the NATO meeting, although police tried to block this, people eventually got through.

In the evening there was a counterball across from the venue of the NATO ball.

The next day there was a modest conference on NATO, militarism and responses to it. There were films, presentations and talks made by the Anarchist Federation Krakow and ZSP. There was also a guest from the Anarchist Federation of France who invited people to attend the anti-nato demos in Strasbourg at the beginning of April.

More on that, plus links to photos and videos: http://cia.bzzz.net/anti_nato_demonstration_and_confere...rakow