Why Smash the War Machine (“Knus Krigsmaskinen!”) must also mean Smash Colonialism
This text reflects on the anti-colonial solidarity efforts of Knus Krigsmaskinen!, an anti-militarist forest occupation in Norway. It explores the opposition which Knus Krigsmaskinen! received from liberal Sámi activists and dives into the nourishing conversations and relationships that developed from these frictions.
Liberation struggles, solidarity, and failing utopias. A conversation with Henning Melber, anticolonial activist and SWAPO member
Henning Melber (born 1950) is a renowned expert on German-African colonial relations and on memory cultures. In 1974 he became one of the first white members of Namibia's liberation movement, the South-West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO). Due to his activities he was banned from entering Namibia and South Africa till the end of the apartheid regime. This biographical interview gives an account of gaining anticolonial and antiracist consciousness across the long lines of political struggles. Henning reflects on his political upbringing, solidarity actions in West Germany in the 1980s, pedagogy of liberation, and on state capture and kleptocracy in Namibia today.