cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/55583377
Repression against left-wing, anti-imperialist and Palestine-solidarity structures in Germany is increasingly aimed at undermining their economic means of existence.
Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/12/23/in-germany-critics-of-the-government-are-losing-their-bank-accounts-and-more/
Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.
Those organizations were labeled as terrorists by the US. This means companies even remotely tied to US services can’t work with them unless they want to get hit by sanctions for supporting (supposedly) terrorist organizations. In case of banks this means no access to credit cards (Visa, Mastercard) or PayPal which is effectively a death sentence. So German banks are closing the accounts of these organizations. However, this is not on behalf of the German government but the US. So blaming Germany as a state is highly misleading.