Organized on the occasion of the 90th year of the February fights in 1934 The Red flag A discussion event in Linz. Under the title "Not only dead we buried, but also illusions and errors" the fights were presented in February 1934 and discussed the teachings that can be drawn from it today.
Austrofascism raged in Austria 90 years ago. Democratic and social rights were smashed, there was massive wage robbery and steady increase in unemployment - over half a million was unemployed. There was censorship, freedom of expression was switched off, the freedom of the press was lifted, the Heimwehr carried out the new "laws", the status was introduced. However, the workers were held back from the struggle by the social democratic leadership. Nevertheless, a heroic resistance organized against fascism. The struggle of the workers, the protective bundles and the communist was bloodily depressed, but formed the basis for the further structure of the resistance against Austrofascism and for resistance to occupation by the National Socialists. In this regard, February 1934 was an important and great victory in the fight against fascism. The armed struggle was not a "mistake", as is often attempted to say, but could have gone much further if it had been led in a revolutionary way. So the most important content of the speaker.
In addition, the audience was introduced to the audience from the essential locations of the fights in Linz and Steyr, which not only showed the fights, but also the extent of the rage of destruction of the Austrofascists.
The participants of the discussion event emphasized that there are similarities today. In retrospect for the corona measures critic movement, looking at the broad Palestine-Inasolidarity movement, we are still facing the situation of censorship, restrictions on the right to demonstrate and prohibitions of meetings. The struggle of the working class is still attempted to hold back today by the trade union and mainly reduced to the question of wages. Against this background, the participants stated that it is also the monol media that are used as an instrument for splitting and agitation in the population.
A successful evening was all about "buried the errors and illusions"!