European LaRouche Mov"t Leads Fight Vs. Fascism
by Our European Correspondents
WIESBADEN,Dec. 23 (EIRNS)Just as the LaRouche movement is leading the fight against bankers' fascism in the U.S., Lyndon LaRouche's European co-thinkers have taken on that responsibility on this continent. A series of events in the last three weeks laid out the organizing perspectivethe state of the battle and what must be done to win.
The keynote for this fight was given by BueSo Party chairwoman Helga Zepp LaRouche, at the Bavarian BueSo Party Congress in Munich ten days ago. She told the 60-plus delegates that the responsibility for defeating the new fascist threat is on their shoulders. Europe's leaders, including Germany's, have not shown the stomach or brains for the fight. Describing the battle in the U.S., Zepp LaRouche said that Americans are much less demoralized and pessimistic than Germans; we must create a fighting spirit and will to win here, as her husband has done in the United States.
Zepp LaRouche challenged her audience of entrepreneurs, workers, farmers, housewives, and youth, to view this period as if through the eyes of someone seeing fascism coming in the 1930s. Too many people then saw Hitler as only a "conservative guy"; not enough realized that his victory could not be tolerated. Today, she said, the new fascism comes in the guise of "reforms"and what do these reforms mean? Destruction of the social system and abolition of the Constitution.
To win, she said, we must reawaken the positive sense of Germany, of its many poets, musicians, composers, and thinkers in the Classical tradition. This will make in Germanyand in Europethe revolution needed to defeat fascism.
The Battle in France
A similar theme was sounded by the French collaborator of LaRouche, Jacques Cheminade, at the national meeting of the party he heads, Solidarité et Progrès. He told the Dec. 11 assembly that we are in the center of a global storm, "and I am happy"happy because in such a crisis great change is possible, if great leadership is exertedthe kind of leadership the LaRouches represent. As in Germany, we must revive in the French people a sense of the true greatness of their country, what it has done and what it could do for the world. We must give France a renewed constitutional mission to stand for the Common Good, he stated.
Polish Eevents
Meanhile, the Schiller Insitute, which Zepp LaRouche heads, was involved in two recent meetings in Poland, where it has many supporters. One meeting at the headquarters of the Polish peasant party featured presentations on the global fight against the neo-liberal economics behind the push for fascism today.
The Schiller Institute held its own event on the crisis in Warsaw, attended by more than 70 people, of whom 40 were youth from a university 100 kilometers away. There was intense debate on the "post-Nov. 2" world, and what needs to be done.
In addition, several important private meetings were held with representatives of various government ministries, journalists, and others.
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