SHOCK: German Leftist Rag TAZ Calls for MURDER to Stop AfD From Winning Free Elections

In a stunning display of radical left extremism, the influential German newspaper taz (Die Tageszeitung) has published a column that openly contemplates “forms of resistance – if necessary of a violent nature” against a potential AfD-led state government.

The piece, written by taz editor Jens Uthoff and published August 21, 2026 under the title “Antifaschismus und Militanz: Weckruf zur Wehrhaftigkeit” (“Antifascism and Militancy: A Wake-Up Call for Defensiveness”), comes as the Alternative for Germany (AfD) surges in polls ahead of the September 6 state election in Saxony-Anhalt.

Uthoff writes that executive power in a German state “could soon fall into the hands of the AfD.” Therefore, he declares, “it is imperative to deal with forms of resistance – if necessary of a violent nature.” He frames this as a defensive reaction to a supposed “right-radical coup attempt” rather than left-wing aggression, while carefully denying any “violence romanticism.”

Let’s be crystal clear: the AfD is currently polling between 40 and 43 percent in Saxony-Anhalt – far ahead of the establishment CDU. If voters hand the party a majority or a governing role in free, secret, and general elections, the left’s answer, according to this national newspaper, is to start discussing physical violence.

As the Ostdeutsche Allgemeine (and similar outlets) correctly noted the next day, this is not some fringe blogger ranting. This is a major left-wing editorial voice treating the possibility of citizens voting the “wrong” way as justification for contemplating violence against an elected government.

Political Violence Is Not a Metaphor

Political violence means beatings, attacks, kidnappings, and yes – murder. That is the historical reality of leftist “militancy” from the Spartacists of 1918–19 through the Red Army Faction and today’s Antifa street thugs. Uthoff’s carefully worded column pretends this is complex and defensive. In practice, it signals that the left will not accept a democratic outcome it dislikes.

This is not isolated. German authorities have already recorded a sharp rise in left-motivated violent crimes targeting AfD politicians, offices, and supporters – arson attacks on vehicles and party facilities, physical assaults, and constant intimidation. The AfD has become the primary party target of left-wing political violence.

Yet mainstream German media and the establishment parties continue their “firewall” against the only serious opposition to open borders, mass migration chaos, and the green energy disaster that is crushing German industry and households.

History Repeats: Left Violence Breeds Backlash

In 1918–19, German leftists rejected the democratic Weimar Republic and launched violent Spartacist uprisings aimed at imposing Soviet-style rule. They failed – and helped create the conditions for the Freikorps and the later militarization of politics. Uthoff and his allies appear determined to replay the same script: refuse to accept the will of the voters, then cry “fascism” when the backlash arrives.

The AfD’s program – secure borders, deportation of criminal foreigners, energy realism, and national sovereignty – operates fully within Germany’s constitutional order. No serious observer claims the party plans a “coup.” The only “coup” on the table is the left’s refusal to live with election results.

The New Program of the Left: Murdering the Opposition

For years, the Western left has insisted that “punching Nazis” is acceptable and that anyone to the right of the Greens is essentially Hitler. Now a major newspaper is casually discussing physical violence, ie murder, against a party that is simply winning free elections in eastern Germany. The same voices that scream about “threats to democracy” when the AfD rises are the ones contemplating extra-legal force against it.

Violence has no place in a civilized democracy. The proper response to a party you dislike is to defeat it at the ballot box – not to prepare terrorism and murder when voters reject your failed policies on immigration and the economy.

The German people in Saxony-Anhalt (and increasingly across the country) are voting AfD because the establishment has failed them. If the left’s answer is to talk about beating, attacking, and murdering, then the real threat to German democracy is not the AfD. It is the radical left that can no longer tolerate the people having a say.