The Conference of Interior Ministers (IMK) is a 1954 regularly scheduled meeting of Interior Ministers and Senators of the states-involving various security, intelligence and police bodies. It takes place twice a year and replaced every year the town. This year, the Presidency is interior minister Christoph Ahlhaus in Hamburg, where the first on Thursday and Friday, 27th & 28 will take place in May 2010 the regular spring meeting.
On the agenda are issues relating to the term "internal security": Protection of the Constitution and Police Affairs, "Immigration Law", "fight against terrorism." The IMK formulated for West German politics crucial legislative initiatives: it is about the extension and reinforcement of the monitoring and control system, to preserve, strengthen and defend the existing capitalist economic system and power relations of that country - internally and externally.
The organized resistance to the IMK was held until today almost exclusively as a traditional battle of the Anti-Ra
movement. This year it's different: The No-IMK-preparation circuit consists of a broad spectrum of leftist movements! In May and especially in November, we will work together to delegitimize the interior ministers conference, disrupt, unsafe!
What exactly address the participants of the conference, everything and / or order is not known, much is considered "classified" withheld from the public. It is true that at the request of the Chairman interior minister Ahlhaus this year laid the official conference focuses on violence against cops and emergency personnel, violence in football and cyber crime, but will certainly also talked about other issues. had
What specific impact IMKs past and there can be decisions taken that illustrate at a few examples:
a topic of vital importance in recent IMKs many of the racist laws which migration-asylum law, deportation and residence "regulate" are. As an example of the "market-based management" of migration, we see the so-called "grandfather clause" (Decision of the IMK 2006). What right to stay here as was announced so as at least temporary relief from the hundreds of thousand people for years tolerated Damocles sword of deportation, was in reality simply as another instrument of German authorities in order to sort people into the possibility of their economic usefulness. Those of the German Economic benefit to work, to which others would be deported today rather than tomorrow.
In times of falling incomes, mass unemployment and the deliberate dismantling of social security systems migration is perceived primarily as an economic problem and trigger social conflict, in which the existing social order is protected with its economic realities and structures of exploitation must. For state actors, this seems to ensure only one way to be: the expansion of state power.
Uncontrolled migration is as a disruption to the smooth running of the capitalist system, and therefore as a threat to "homeland security" seen. The Term "security" means but not the welfare of all people, but the maintenance of the capitalist economic order and state hegemony.
To be tightened surveillance measures and the expanded powers and cooperation between police and intelligence agencies. Among the topics of IMKs in the past included such as the increased surveillance of train stations, parks, stadiums, the massive expansion of telecommunications surveillance by police and intelligence services, the retention of the construction of new (eg ELENA) and the networking of existing databases (eg anti-terror database), the introduction of a biometric ID card, must obtain the declaration and control of finances and thus lifting of bank secrecy for people on benefits undundund - the list is long ...
takes the same time, to repression of more people. Everywhere we tighten up the right to assembly met with more and more arbitrary restrictions and bans demo. And the partial strike ban was enforced, as well as beginnings of quick justice. In the field of football, there are more limitations of fan-rights, as stadiums. Not the shiny consumer Downtown Image right people / groups are distributed by local bans in public places and excluded public So space is privatized. And the immigration office helps more against "Schwarzarbeiter_innen" act - a particularly blatant form of racial special treatment.
is parallel promoted the militarization of society: Under the heading of "civil-military cooperation (CIMIC) are increasingly militarized civilian facilities. The extended structure of the "disaster response" is associated with the increased use of armed forces in the interior, the privatization of parts of the armed forces and the struggle for greater social acceptance for German combat missions. In 2010, the construction of over 400 nationwide so-called "compound commands" be completed, which was adopted in 2005 by the IMK. The connection command of the army should guarantee the "crises", including in riots or strikes, including the protection / defense of the sensitive, so-called "critical infrastructure" of the state. This includes, inter alia, government buildings, banks, telecommunications equipment, (nuclear) power plants and roads - previously this was only a matter for the police. The government installed here an inconspicuous area-wide military structure, crushed for its resistance Bürger_innen in the case of an emergency as quickly as possible.
racist special laws, increased surveillance and Repression, but also the increasing militarization are not considered separately but are related to each other: they are the most visible part of an overall social authoritarian formation. This has its origins in one part of the massive escalation of social and economic conflicts of recent decades is aimed, on the other hand also to the further continuation of neoliberal policies and managing them. The upgrade of the security state is only part of this development. The legitimization of alternatives and to make impossible, the task of a more and more subjects extended security discourse, the central thesis of the structural contradictions of capitalist insolubility and resulting resulting conflicts. Instead, the suppression by ever more intense repression is propagated. Characterized in particular the targeted transfer of state intervention is far in advance the potential occurrence of conflicts, thus a possible comprehensive prevention. This includes the attempt to people into the mainstream that is, as objects of repression and surveillance stakeholders in the system and the preventive logic of the security state that this ideology is internalized and collected it eventually subjects, a contributing part to the leave.
The official program of the IMC is only a few days before each meeting to the public. The Program is known from recent years: (. 26.5) Wednesday night are unofficial "fireside chats" instead. The conference will begin Thursday morning (27.5.) Press conference is expected Friday at noon (28.5.) Be.
the preparation committee, who have come together in order to mobilize protests against the IMK includes groups and individuals of different political spectrums. This also makes it clear that the measures being discussed at the IMK mean spectra across repression us all and must be tackled together so well! Let us together take action against the Minister of the Interior conference! Whether in May or November, or in any other month, you participated in various actions. Let us make it clear:
We want a life free of controls and monitoring, no war and no military, no repression, no racism, no fortress Europe, and not capitalism!
all come to Hamburg! To prepare 27 & 28 May the IMK in November before - we our resistance!
The IMC takes place every year twice. The May conference will include the preparation of the General Conference in November. We urge everyone to come to Hamburg in May to link up to us to organize broad opposition to the Conference of Interior Ministers in November and to start initial actions! First
Point of contact / information point at 05.27. Centro Sociale, Sternstr. 2, making HH
Hamburg unsafe! - Conference of Interior Ministers can fall into the water!
Contact: no-imk@nadir.org
