Fuck Arizona, defend Audi workers

Audi Brussel, zondag 13 april om 12:00 CEST

Front d'Action Révolutionnaire, AFA-BXL (source)

This Sunday, April 13, at noon, for Act III against Arizona, a rally has been organized by the Brussels antifascist AG in front of the factory. To support them directly. To rebuild their camp, destroyed by the police. And to warn that the closure of the Audi plant is not just a social disaster, but also a gateway to a militarized future.

Practical infos:

• Rally at the Audi factory : 201 boulevard de la Deuxième Armée Britannique, 1190 Forest

• Let's bring materials to rebuild the destroyed camp.

• Let's bring some food for the barbecue, some banners, some soccer. In short, something to make this afternoon festive!

• And above all, let's bring solidarity and strength. Let's be many !

Forest, April 2025. The Audi factory in Brussels is at a standstill, officially closed since the beginning of 2025. However, it could soon be waking up... in the service of war. A project to convert the plant into a military vehicle factory is being promoted by the Belgian government, as part of a vast remilitarization plan. But some life still stirs onsite.

A few dozen workers, left out in the cold, are still occupying the site. Ignored in the social plan, invisible in the media, they are the ones who, against all odds, are waging a fundamental struggle. For recognition, for their dignity, against the brutality of licensing.

When the closure was announced in July 2024, Audi left over 3,000 subcontractors out in the cold. Management negotiated a few meagre bonuses for some, nothing for others. Those who remain onsite today were left out of these negotiations. They are the ones from whom everything was taken.

Those excluded, left with mere scraps or nothing whatsoever. Those who didn't leave, because they had nothing left to lose. Those for whom the camp they had managed to maintain until then was razed to the ground in less than a night on March 31.

But the camp will be rebuilt. Because they continue to fight, and because they are not alone. To be there on Sunday is to defend their presence on the site, to make their demands a reality, to give them the collective impetus they've been denied for months.

Remilitarization advances on their ruins

What Theo Francken is proposing for the Audio plant is a double humiliation, advancing a brutal social breakdown and erasing the last pockets of resistance. On top of this, his plans would see the ruins of this workplace transformed into war workshops.

This remilitarization is not neutral. It is part of a global project: that of a fascist international, stretching from Trump to Netanyahu, via Macron, Orban and Francken. An authoritarian, colonial security front, which normalizes war as a political horizon.

This mobilization is a refusal to let the concrete of their workshops today be used tomorrow to produce armoured vehicles for neo-colonial wars. It is a refusal to allow social erosion to be a victory for militarism.

Since the invasion of the Ukraine, Europe has entered a new era. An era in which armaments become a budgetary, industrial and symbolic priority. Germany is releasing a trillion euros for its armies. France speaks of a « military nation » and announces record military budgets. In Belgium, the government is falling into line, bowing to pressure from NATO and the arms lobby.

Everywhere, factories, speeches, schools and research are being remilitarized; a war economy is being promoted, while social protection is collapsing.

Waging war on war means standing against the global remilitarization driven by this fascist and imperialist international.

Because the weapons built here don't gather dust on assembly lines - they're deployed to destroy. In Gaza, across much of the African continent, in our neighborhoods, at our borders, and against social movements... they fuel a system of control, dispossession, and terror.

That's why, this Sunday at 12PM, we'll be there. To continue helping to rebuild the destroyed camp. To say that the occupiers' demands are vital, that they are not alone, and that their struggle deserves to be heard. To prevent their silence becoming the condition for a new warlike industrial order.

Supporting Audi workers today means refusing to let a working-class factory be recycled as a war factory. It means continuing to fight with them to ensure that their demands are heard. It also means remembering that antimilitarism is not opposed to the working class - it is an extension of it. It says: not in our name. Not for your war, not on our ruins.

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