Anti-fascist information sheet
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| description | Nationwide magazine of the Antifa movement |
| Area of Expertise | Anti-fascism |
| publishing company | Self-published (Germany) |
| Headquarters | Berlin |
| First edition | 1987 |
| Frequency of publication | four times a year |
| editor | Editorial collective |
| Web link | www.antifainfoblatt.de |
| ZDB | 1219282-x |
The Antifaschistische Infoblatt ( AIB ) is a nationwide print magazine of an independent, voluntary editorial group based in Berlin. Since 1987 it has been reporting on ethnic-nationalist ideologies on the right-wing edge of the political spectrum, on actors, organizations and infrastructure in this area as well as on current developments from an anti-fascist perspective.
Self-image
The magazine sees itself as a "counter-public" and "anti-fascist resistance". The editors assume that - for example during the nationwide wave of pogroms against refugees in the first half of the 1990s - political backgrounds are hidden in the mainstream media, authoritarian, nationalist and racist moods in society are denied and right-wing activities are trivialized. We want to help close this gap. At the same time, you see yourself as a mediator and platform for information, concepts, campaigns and content-related debates by anti-fascist groups and initiatives.
It contains reports on German and European history, in particular the time of National Socialism , on national and international connections and ideological similarities between national conservatives, right-wing populists and neo-Nazis, as well as continuous analyzes of this entire spectrum. In addition to the current manifestations, it also deals with its intellectual historical sources and references. Extensive background articles are intended to provide thoroughly researched information that "would not be offered in this level of detail in commercially oriented media".
The editorial group is divided into different sections: "Brown Zone", "History", "Society", "Racism", "Repression", "Discussion". The authors include Markus End, Sebastian Friedrich , Frances Henry, Stefan Jacoby, Andreas Kemper , Franz Josef Krafeld , Dirk Laabs , Rudolf Leiprecht , Sebastian Lipp, Michael Plöse, Pro Asyl , Harry Waibel and Volker Weiß .
The magazine appears four times a year and has a volume of around 60 pages. It is self-published by a voluntary editorial collective.
Cooperations
As a nationwide publication, the AIB works with various media projects and archives in the same direction, with journalists, historians and activists in Germany. It has been working with anti-fascist initiatives in Europe and North America since 1988 and has been a member of the international Antifa-Net network since 2003 , through which it is connected to anti-fascist initiatives in Europe, Asia and the USA.
The sheet cooperates with the Internet platform Linksnet . His information offers are received within a spectrum of opinions, the representatives of decidedly left-wing positions, journalistic researchers and authors, the trade union ver.di , the student and young scientist association "Engagierte Wissenschaft" (EnWi eV) of the University of Leipzig , established university specialists or local Citizens' initiatives like the alliance initiative “Leipzig - City for All”. A study by the Bertelsmann Foundation sees the AIB as one of two noteworthy German publications within an international network of anti-fascist and anti-racist NGOs alongside the anti-fascist news .
It is jointly with searchlight (Great Britain) and enough is enough publisher of two book publications that deal with specific aspects of right-wing populism and the radical right: Right-wing populism can be deadly! and white noise . Right rock, skinhead music, Blood & Honor . The second publication was well received far beyond the narrow readership of the AIB and even the Neue Zürcher Zeitung .
reception
The expertise of the AIB is used for their studies by many political science authors on the subject of Middle Extremism, Right-Wing Populism and Neo-Nazism. The research results of the AIB are also reflected in quality journalism. It is perceived as an "alternative medium" to the mainstream.
The political scientist Armin Pfahl-Traughber rates the AIB as a “relevant publication organ” for left-wing extremism within the field of “anti-fascism”.
Web links
- Website of the anti-fascist information sheet
- Antifascist information sheet in the catalog of the German National Library
- 30 years of the anti-fascist information sheet "Never greeted the editor-in-chief" , taz dated September 30, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ Proof in the journal database .
- ↑ a b About us. Anti-fascist information sheet, accessed on March 3, 2017 .
- ↑ [1] .
- ^ University of York: [2] .
- ↑ Duisburg Institute for Linguistic and Social Research, authors, in: [3] .
- ↑ Controversy over the right to information Neo-Nazi watch blog [= "Störungsmelder"] is an organ of the press, in: Der Tagesspiegel, February 15, 2017, see: [4] .
- ↑ Regular author of the proceedings . Journal for Citizens' Rights and Social Policy, see: [5] .
- ↑ See for example: Andrea Röpke / Andreas Speit (eds.), Blood and Honor. Past and present of right wing violence in Germany, Berlin 2013, here: Acknowledgment, p. 232.
- ↑ See for example: Florian Osuch, Antifaschistisches Infoblatt , in: Menschen macht Medien, September 11, 2009.
- ↑ Weblink on engagiertewwissenschaft.de to the anti-fascist information sheet
- ↑ Pegida confidential , December 9, 2016.
- ^ Bertelsmann Stiftung (ed.), Strategies for Combating Right-Wing Extremism in Europe, Bielefeld 2010.
- ↑ Tobias Alm / Cordelia Heß / Farhiya Khalid / Jaakko Koskinen (eds.), Right-wing populism can be fatal! Development and consequences of the shift to the right in Scandinavia, Münster 2013.
- ^ White Noise: Right-wing rock, skinhead music, Blood & Honor - Insights into the international neo-Nazi music scene (series of anti-fascist texts), Münster 2004.
- ↑ For the review by Stephan Hentz (NZZ) see Perlentaucher, August 24, 2000, [6] .
- ↑ See for example: Christoph Butterwegge / Janine Cremer / Alexander Häusler / Gudrun Hentges / Thomas Pfeiffer / Carolin Reisslandt / Samuel Salzkorn, Topics of the Right - Topics of the Middle. Immigration, Demographic Change and National Consciousness, Wiesbaden 2002; Thomas Grumke / Bernd Wagner (eds.), Handbook for right-wing radicalism. People - organizations - networks from neo-Nazism to the middle of society, Opladen 2002; Ralph Gabriel / Ingo Grastof / Tanja Lakeit, future exact. Youth culture in Oranienburg between right-wing extremist violence and democratic engagement, Berlin 2004; Ute Döring, fear zones. Right-dominated places from a media and local perspective, Wiesbaden 2008; Jan Schedler / Alexander Häusler (eds.), Autonomous Nationalists. Neo-Nazism in Motion, Wiesbaden 2011; Uwe Wenzel / Beate Rosenzweig / Ulrich Eith (eds.), Right-wing terror and right-wing extremism. Current manifestations and approaches of political education practice, Schwalbach / Ts. 2015; Martin Langebach / Michael Sturm (eds.), Places of Remembrance of the Extreme Right, Wiesbaden 2015.
- ↑ Andrea Röpke / Andreas Speit (eds.), Braune Kameradschaften. The militant neo-Nazis in the shadow of the NPD, Berlin 2005; Stefan Aust / Dirk Laabs , homeland security. The state and the NSU series of murders, Munich 2014
- ↑ Bernd Hüttner / Christiane Leidinger / Gottfried Oy (eds.), Handbook Alternative Media 2011/2012. Print media, free radios, archives and publishers in the FRG, Austria and Switzerland, Neu-Ulm 2011.
- ^ Armin Pfahl-Traughber : Left-wing extremism in Germany. A critical inventory , Wiesbaden 2014, p. 183.