Marcel Cartier's video: Marcel Cartier - Chemnitz Karl-Marx-Stadt with lyrics

The fight against fascism in Germany continues Verse 1 No pasaran, no they will not pass! The rise of xenophobia, no it will not last! But solutions ain't to be found in liberals their militant potential is frankly minscule let's look at history and why the right has gained power 100 years ago, Europe found itself in tatters the Great War was ending, the old world was stale the monarchies were brushed aside, but what would prevail? Would it be the watered down Social Democrats? who appeased capitalists and would stab the backs? of the workers and farmers who found their strength in the Leninist idea of establishing a dictatorship of the proletarians take the bourgeoisie right out the equation the struggle played out in the streets of Germany the Spartacist Uprising with the goal of the proclamation of the Free Socialist Republic Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht in public rallied masses to take control of their lives but the SPD would rather hold the bosses' knives and their guns in the shape of the Freikorps killed the communists but (could) never shake the source, though of rebellion as people turned against the centre fertile ground for the Nazi Party to enter Chorus Hashtag Chemnitz, you know SOS the AfD trying to revive the fascists Put 'em in their place, never let the seed grow Our militant response, the unity of people Verse 2 It's evident how the victors write history they equate two periods of Germany the notion that the Nazis & GDR were somehow similar is so absurdly far from the truth of the matter, let's remember who the fierce resistance to Hitler has come through it was the communists - yes, the damn communists! Ernst Thalmann led the fight against the fascists the two Germanys to surface post-World War 2 were worlds apart in approach to the Nazis who has run the country, facilitated genocide the west rehabilitated them in their fight against the staunchly anti-fascist workers' state established in the east that combated past hate now we can criticise it for a wide range of reasons but they never gave these fascists the room for breathing now look at Chemnitz, the ex-Karl-Marx-Stadt we can't let these racists tear your soul apart It's a sick irony how these Nazis rallied in front of Marx's quote about forging unity they say it's free speech, tell me how free you feel liberal democracy is just a fuckin' shill it enables and pushes toward fascism the surge of the left our only hope to stop them