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cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/55583377
Repression against left-wing, anti-imperialist and Palestine-solidarity structures in Germany is increasingly aimed at undermining their economic means of existence.
Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/12/23/in-germany-critics-of-the-government-are-losing-their-bank-accounts-and-more/
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Your disclaimer is a tad on the mild side. This is a gross, and purposeful misrepresentation of facts.
Elaborate?
Those organizations were labeled as terrorists by the US. This means companies even remotely tied to US services can’t work with them unless they want to get hit by sanctions for supporting (supposedly) terrorist organizations. In case of banks this means no access to credit cards (Visa, Mastercard) or PayPal which is effectively a death sentence. So German banks are closing the accounts of these organizations. However, this is not on behalf of the German government but the US. So blaming Germany as a state is highly misleading.
No, those organizations are not labeled as terrorist organisations by the US. (source: https://www.state.gov/foreign-terrorist-organizations/)
There is only one German organisation on this list, “Antifa Ost, aka Hammerbande”.
What you said is 100% true, but at least “Die rote Hilfe” has also been target of repression and investigations from originating from the German state. As far as I know they are tracking who donates to them, i have heard more than one time, that donating to them will get you put on an observation list of The German “Bundesverfassungsschutz”
Donating to or being a member of the “Rote Hilfe” also effectively bans you from working in civil service and is one of the organisations that legally you have to admit to being a member of during the application process for a job in civil service.
Well, rumours were that the German BaFin warnded GLS on behalf of the US. So, the German government IS involved as extended arm of the US.