Under the motto “Against their wars” gathered on Saturday, the 19. April 2025, around 400 People in Kassel, To the anti -capitalist Easter march. The demonstration was from the alliance “Rheinmetall disarmed!“Organized.
The protest began against 10 Clock in front of the Turkish consulate, Where a first speaker drew attention to the ongoing massacre of Alawites in southern Syria. She condemned the silence of the international community and spoke out for peaceful coexistence and the protection of all population groups in Syria.
The demonstration then pulled over the stone's throw and Dutch square towards the work gate of the armaments company KNDS. There was an intermediate rally there, at the youth alliance against war and military service as well as the autonomous youth municipalities. The youth not only criticized the federal government's savings plans in the education- and social area, but also denounced racism and sexism in the Bundeswehr and particularly warned of the attacks on women and queer people, which multiply through militarization and acts of war. With the slogan “The rich want war, the youth a future”, made it clear against the planned reintroduction of conscription.
With transparent, Drumming and loud speech choirs finally went, Accompanied by passers -by interested:within, Through the downtown Kassel. The demonstrators made it clear, that their protest is not only directed against specific companies, but also against the political system, that enables wars and benefits from them. They showed solidarity with people in war zones worldwide - from Palestine to Ukraine, From Kurdistan to Iran.
At the Kassel town hall, the demonstration train then joined the Easter March of the Kassel Friedenforum, which with about 400 People had run from Bebelplatz to the town hall. Occupational groups with reference to the conspiracy ideological party "The Basic" or Germany flags were also present, without attracting attention. With 800 The Kassel Easter March was the second largest in Hesse.
At the final rally, the Kassel Friedensforum illustrated, The Palestinian community, The Left Party, The BSW and the alliance “Disarm Rheinmetall” their positions. The Palestinian community drew attention to its concern and the consequences by the genocide in Gaza, Violetta Bock (The left) criticized the approval of parts of her party to 500 Councilor of the Federal Government “Adjustment” Sharp to the government line and called to organize an anti -militarist.
Rheinmetall Dilking described War as part of the capitalist logic. The special fund of the federal government is a “Betrayal of your own population”, the it in living space, Nurses and teachers:Inside missing. The alliance criticized the transfiguration of the war as a supposedly emancipatory progress and solidarized with the conscience of the military service:inside and deserters:within, which stand courageous and from responsibility for life against the patriarchal masculinity of the military and the logic of the war.
“All together – Disarm Rheinmetall” was still heard in the city in the evening. The Rheinmetall alliance disarmed addressed the dark history of the armaments group in Dock4. With an exhibition, the group showed, How the armaments group in the Tannenwald concentration camp near Unterlüß had Jewish forced laborers made ammunition for German troops in the Second World War. She also had the Berlin Theater X. In the almost sold -out house, the group made the perfect practices of forced labor in its spectacle, Lobbyism and legislements, who have been the company since its foundation 1889 to accompany to this day – but not without protest.
