The neo-liberal FRG regime continues targeting dissidents.
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Earlier this month, GLS Bank informed the German Communist Party (DKP) that all of its accounts would be discontinued effective December 31.
According to the DKP, GLS Bank did not provide any reason for its decision but had previously requested information about the party’s fundraising campaign for Cuba.
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Klaus Leger, head of the finance committee at the DKP, told NachDenkSeiten media outlet that bank representatives had suggested in a phone conversation with him that “there had been external pressure, and that the closures were not based on a sovereign internal decision by GLS Bank.”
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Last March, Berliner Sparkasse froze the account of a Jewish anti-Zionist group named the ‘Jewish Voice for Just Peace in the Middle East.’
We weren’t the only ones hit with termination of our bank accounts. The Rote Hilfe („red help“, think like a network of leftists of all kinds, that acts like an insurance for political repressions) also got their account terminated a few days ago. The DKP still plays one of the most important roles in the peace movement here. This debanking comes right after the informal youth organization, the SDAJ, organized a school strike against the planned mandatory military service, with a size that dwarves most school strikes in the last 2 decades. Of course the reason the bank gives is Cuba. But trying to silence one of the few organizations which can actually do something against Germanys military plans is nothing new.