This Friday, November 28, the day before the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, members of DiEM25 and MERA25 will take to the streets of Berlin as part of the global Make Amazon Pay mobilisation.

Alongside Amazon workers, grassroots groups, and international movements, we will protest against the corporations profiting from genocide, occupation, and the exploitation of workers around the world.

In Berlin, the demonstration will begin at 18:00 in front of the Amazon Tower near Warschauer Straße. The action has been initiated primarily by Italian and German members of MERA25 based in the city, and is drawing in participants from many communities and organisations.

This year’s target – Berlin’s much-criticised Amazon Tower – stands as a stark symbol of corporate power and the destruction it fuels globally.

Amazon reported $59 billion in profits last year, wealth built on anti-union repression, exploitation, tax avoidance and extreme automation. Beyond its labour abuses, the company is also directly complicit in Israel’s ongoing occupation and genocide in Gaza: Amazon provides cloud infrastructure, AI targeting tools and surveillance systems through the Nimbus Project, making its technology integral to the machinery of oppression.

Germany’s own role in this violence is becoming impossible to ignore. Military spending is soaring, young people are increasingly pushed toward the Bundeswehr, and the government continues to back Israel’s assault on Gaza.

As Israeli arms companies profit from this arms race – exporting drones, weapons and surveillance systems – public money is being drained from hospitals, schools, universities, wages and pensions to enrich corporations and billionaires instead.

While the Berlin protest unfolds, our co-founder Yanis Varoufakis will join the major demonstration in Genoa, organised by dockworkers and supported by Greta Thunberg, Francesca Albanese and other prominent figures.

Italian dockworkers have shown how collective action can shift the political ground: what began as solidarity with the Global Sumud Flotilla has grown into a mass rejection of war policies that burden workers while governments – from Italy to Germany – ramp up military budgets.

Together, across borders, DiEM25 and MERA25 are calling for an international front against genocide, environmental destruction, labour exploitation, and the corporate power that profits from all three.

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