The Executive committee decided to hold the XVII regular congress of FIR November 18 – 20, 2016 in Prague. Since the XVI regular congress in Sofia we could experience a number of important developments of the political work. Impressive commemoration activities of the 70th anniversary of Day of Victory and common activities like the international …

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For months, the International Federation of Resistance Fighters (FIR) – Association of Anti-fascists and its member federations follows with great concern the political development in Turkey. It was already visible that the government under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan started on one hand an increasingly expansionist policy with the support of IS troops in Syria, on …

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We have to say a last far-well to Elie Wiesel, who died in the first days of July 2016 at the age of 87 years. He was an international well-known survivor of the CC Auschwitz and Buchenwald. Born in Sighet in Transylvania, he was deported 1944 with his family to the extermination camp Auschwitz, where …

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Let’s unite with renewed resistance against new types of fascism!
Speech Vilmos Hanti (Moscow, May 7, 2015)
Dear Antifascist Comrades,
On behalf of the 64 year old International Federation of Resistance Fighters (FIR), which operates in around 30 countries with more than 60 member-organizations, I greet you cordially and congratulate you all for the organization of this very …

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As Secretary-General of the International Federation of Resistance Fighters – Association of Anti-fascists, I am pleased and proud that this great project of European youth meeting could take place again under the common slogan of historical commemoration.
It is an impressive activity connected with the 70th anniversary of liberation from fascism and war, which is in …

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The great event, the international youth meetings “Train of Thousand” is in its final stage of preparation. Born in the joint responsibility of the “Institut des Vétérans”, the Belgian Auschwitz Foundation and the FIR will be – under the auspices of Philippe, King of the Belgians – in May 2015 again around 1000 young people …

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The U.N. Third Committee met in New York on November 26th and approved several texts to be taken up by the General Assembly before Christmas. Among others, the Committee passed a proposal on a global call for concrete action for the total elimination of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance. The recommendation express the …

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On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the WWI on August 1, 1914 and the 75th anniversary of the aggression of Hitler’s Germany on Poland on September 1, 1939, the beginning of WWII, the International Federation of Resistance Fighters (FIR) – Association of Anti-fascists, the umbrella association of organizations of former …

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The International Federation of resistance Fighters (FIR) – Association of Antifascists calls the actual government of Ukraine to stop the civil war against the own people in eastern Ukraine immediately. The reports on the military activities – even against civilians – and the announcement of President Poroschenko to take revenge against all “separatists” make it …

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Die Internationale Föderation der Widerstandskämpfer (FIR) – Bund der Antifaschisten fordert von den gegenwärtig in der Ukraine Regierenden, den Bürgerkrieg gegen die eigene Bevölkerung in der Ostukraine sofort einzustellen. Die Berichte über die militärischen Aktionen – auch gegen Zivilisten – und die Ankündigung von Präsident Poroschenko, Rache gegenüber den „Separatisten“ zu nehmen, machen deutlich, dass …

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