MAKⒶMIK

Suomeksi

On Wednesday, December 4th 2024, the police evicted the social center Kaaoskartano from Kulosaari manor, just half a week after it was occupied. Kaaoskartano had moved to the Kulosaari manor from the adjacent Marttojen maja last weekend because the city tried to smoke the squatters out of Marttojen maja by cutting off the electricity there. Makamik condemns the eviction and the pressure on the squatters that preceded it.

When we occupied the same manor last spring for our spring festival, we noticed how well it would be suitable for a more permanent social center. It is sad how the city would rather let old houses rot away empty than let grassroots actors organize their own activities in them. We will see what kind of luxury hotel they will eventually be able to conceive in Kulosaari, if they even get that far.

Love to the evicted squatters 🖤

Let’s show today at Töölöntori HIN-demo that the police’s hardening grip is not welcome either in Kivinokka or Töölö!

Suomeksi

The 612 torchlight procession, organized by open fascists and disguised as “nonpartisan patriotism,” is being organized for the tenth time this year. In 2014, anarchists and other anti-fascists ignored the then still small and puny Nazi march and, as in previous years, focused on disrupting the nationalist ceremony of the Linnan juhlat with the wild “Lähiöst Linnaan” demonstration. However, fascism does not wither away by remaining silent, and the following year the number of participants in the torchlight procession grew manyfold. In the same year, anti-fascist counter-demonstrations began, which have since become a regrettably traditional sight on the streets of Helsinki on Independence Day.

We say “regrettably traditional” because fascists should not be able to organize and gather publicly in Helsinki or anywhere else, and in that case there should be no need for a counter-demonstration. Fascism as a social movement aims to further entrench white cis-hetero privilege, absolute male supremacy, and class collusion with the ruling class. It is always a threat to both minorities and those working for a better world because it aims to subjugate and destroy us, as has been seen numerous times throughout history.

Let’s not give fascism a place in society, not now and not ever. Never again!

See you at Töölöntori.