The attack of the Kassem Brigades from the Gaza Strip on Israel fills the headlines. As in the Ukraine war, it is being portrayed as surprising, unprovoked and brutal, and once again the German foreign minister is one of the first to promise unlimited solidarity to one of the warring parties. But the attack has …
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XIX regular congress of FIR in Barcelona
20. September 2023
Supported by our Catalan comrades and member associations, the congress will be held in Barcelona from Friday, October 27 to Sunday, October 29, 2023.The schedule is planned as follows:The opening event will take place in the late afternoon of October 27 at the Old City Hall of the City of Barcelona with the presentation of …
Winning the peace – not the war!
31. August 2023
We remember the German aggression against Poland in 1939, therefor the military beginning of the WWII as “Anti-war-day” with peace activities worldwide. The United Nations declared September 21 as international “Peace-day”. For both events, FIR underlines its basic position as “Ambassador of Peace”, to be fighter against war, for direct ceasefire and beginning of negotiations …
XIX FIR congress in Barcelona, October 2023
19. Juni 2023
Our last regular congress has been end of 2019 in Reggio Emilia. It was an impressive event and a successful meeting. Normally we should have had the next congress in 2022, but due to the Pandemic situation not only in Europe the FIR-EC decided to postpone this important meeting for all member federations. In the …
Solidarity with the people in Emilia Romagna
22. Mai 2023
FIR and its member federations convey solidarity and sympathy to all anti-fascists in Italy because of the heavy damages and burdens caused by the flood disaster.We have our congress in Reggio Emilia and the great hospitality still in good memory. All the more we are shocked by the pictures that reached us in the last …
Chief prosecutor at Nuremberg trials Benjamin Ferencz dead at 103
9. April 2023
The FIR and its member federations remember Benjamin Ferencz, American prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, who died in Florida at the age of 103. He was the last prosecutor of the Nuremberg trials still living.After graduating from Harvard Law, he fought in the U.S. Army toward the end of World War II and …
Winning the peace – not the war!
23. Februar 2023
Statement of FIR one year after the beginning of the war in Ukraine
On 24 February 2022, Russian troops invaded Ukraine in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict. The invasion has caused tens of thousands of deaths on both sides and has exacerbated the role of NATO in the area.As a direct outcome of the …
FIR is in solidarity with the victims of the earthquake disaster in Syria and Turkey.
7. Februar 2023
The heavy earthquakes of the weekend in the Kurdish border area between Syria and Turkey have claimed nearly 5,000 lives according to information confirmed so far. Several hundred buildings in the affected major cities have been destroyed or are in danger of collapse. Several thousand people are still missing under the destruction.The FIR expresses its …
Obituary Mikhail A. Moiseev
18. Dezember 2022
It is with deep sadness that we bid farewell today to the Chairman of the Russian Union of Veterans, General Mikhail Alexeyevich Moiseev. He died a few weeks before his 84th birthday.Mikhail A. Moiseev was in the army all his life. Marked by the experience of the Nazi-German invasion and the Great Patriotic War, which …
Belgrade International Anti-Fascist Conference of FIR
28. Oktober 2022
October 24-25, 2022, the International Antifascist Conference of FIR, supported by the Serbian veterans’ organization SUBNOR, took place in Belgrade. Delegates of veterans and antifascist organizations from more than 20 countries discussed the danger of right wing development in Europe of today. This conference was well attended by the media. The main TV-news on Monday …
