This is simply wrong. The website called for violence.
Also riseup is a communist organization.
That's actually true. I don't know why both the CCC and Riseup feel the need to exclude that the website explicitly asked for violent protests. It doesn't change the fact that the raids were pointless and to some extend disproportionate. It sure is a good way to give up the moral high ground though.
[1] This appears to be site in question: https://augsburgfuerkrawalltouristen.noblogs.org/ (German). At first glance it seems pretty tame. Maybe they changed it, I don't know. And of course the relation to raids is tenuous.
https://augsburgfuerkrawalltouristen.noblogs.org/anleitungen...
These are the article, which are problematic. First one calls for riot/turmoil ("Krawall"). Second one has instructions for violent protests.
Do you have the original website text/archive?
> Also riseup is a communist organization.
They appear to be pro-democracy, anti-authoritarianism.
https://augsburgfuerkrawalltouristen.noblogs.org/anleitungen...
These are the article, which are problematic. First one calls for riot/turmoil ("Krawall"). Second one has instructions for violent protests.
They are using communist/socialists emblems. Their statements indicate that they do not like the current capitalist society and want to abolish it: "freedom from want"; "world without oppression or hierarchy, where power is shared equally" https://riseup.net/en/about-us
Please donate here to support them: https://riseup.net/en/donate
riseup is for sure not a communist organization. It's anti-authoritarian and anti-fascist. Communists are very authoritarian. German police seems to be also very authoritarian and fascist friendly. They are multiple accounts of german courts and police actively protecting fascists, who are calling for violence. And targeting anti-fascists, who are criticising said violence.
Apparently the authors use a Riseup email account.
The Communist Manifesto ends with the words "The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare..."
Thus, to be a communist means to openly declare that you are a communist. Marx made this point elsewhere, as did subsequent communists.
Of course, under state repression (like this) this convention is not expected to be followed blindly. If communists are being arrested in a country, communists are not expected to put up their hands and say "come get me too". But to be a communist means to openly be one when legally possible (with few exceptions - a handful of self-described communists like Ted Grant thought otherwise).
Riseup.net does not describe itself as communist. In fact its about page says it stands against vanguardism, which in the milieu in which it sits means it is against Leninism. Which means they are not communist in any form modern people would understand.