7. April 2022
We received the attached pictures of the desecration of the soviet Memorial in Berlin-Treptow Park, where the members of the EC honoured in autumn last year the veterans of the Anti-Hitler-Coalition for the liberation of Berlin in May 1945.
We condemn in clear words this barbaric act against the remembrance of the soviet veterans of the …
24. Februar 2022
The FIR is an “ambassador of peace”. We stand for peace without war! Therefore, FIR condemns the Russian military action on the territory of Ukraine. As highlighted in our last newsletter, we do not see military escalation as a solution to the disputes between the Russian Federation and Ukraine in the context of the Donbass …
23. Februar 2022
In its latest Newsletter FIR presented the following tasks to solve the political conflict:
From our point of view, there is a solution to this problem, to which all sides can actively work on:
A propagandistic de-escalation and preparation of a European security conference in OSCE format, in which contractual agreements are concluded which correspond to the …
21. Januar 2022
We remember one of the most active comrade in arms of the International Federation of Resistance Fighters (FIR), Prof. Dr. Ilya S. Kremer, because of his 100 birthday on 22 January.
Born 1922 in Gomel (Soviet Union), he studied 1939 at the faculty for history of the Leningrad University, from 1940 at the Moscow University. The …
11. Januar 2022
We were saddened to learn that the President of the European Parliament died this morning in an Italian hospital.
Sassoli was the son of a fellow member of the Italian Resistenza. He never forgot or denied these roots in his political life. We remember that in his inaugural speech after the European elections, he referred in …
20. Dezember 2021
With large satisfaction, the FIR took note of the result of the presidential election in Chile. Not the right-wing conservative Pinochet supporter José Antonio Kast could defend his lead in the first election round, but the representative of the left forces Gabriel Boric received with 56% of the votes a clear confirmation in the runoff. …
5. Dezember 2021
After the FIR Bulletin 62 went to press, we received the attached graphic about the decision of the United Nations General Assembly on the resolution with the unwieldy title “combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fueling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance.” For several years, this …
22. November 2021
With deep sadness, we have to say farewell to a longtime comrade and friend, who for many years helped to shape the work of the FIR also on a responsible level, Heinz Siefritz, our longtime financial secretary. He died at the age of 75 years in the hospital last week, after he had increasingly health …
2. November 2021
On October 30, 2021, at the invitation of FIR, representatives of the Society and political friends congratulated Albina Moimas, a 100-year-old survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp and a comrade-in-arms of the Italian Resistenza in Kassel.
Under the conditions of the Corona rules, it had to be a small gathering. Nevertheless, the vice-president of the International …
6. Oktober 2021
With dismay and anger the International Federation of Resistance Fighters (FIR) – Association of Anti-Fascists had to learn that on Tuesday the memorial Auschwitz-Birkenau, the symbol of the industrial mass extermination of Jewish people, Sinti and Roma and others by German fascism, was desecrated with anti-Semitic slogans.
If someone thinks that with such graffiti he can …
