Kompass-newsletter No. 143 - 04/2026

We’ll Come United plans following the strategy meeting +++ 18 April in the border triangle between France, Switzerland and Germany: demonstration for borderless solidarity +++ 10–12 April in Erfurt: Preparatory conference by “widersetzen” against the AfD party conference in July +++ 25 April in Berlin: Africa Unite – a pan-African conference +++ 5 May in Frankfurt: Book launch of “No Border lasts forever” and mobilisation against deportations +++ Return Hubs – the new “Return Regulation” +++ Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights: Freedom for Saadia Mosbah +++ New investigation by Border Forensics on the English Channel: How ‘Stopping the Boats’ kills +++ New book from Ljubljana: The Balkan Corridor – 10 Years After +++ New video marking 10 years of the Summer of Migration at trans-border.net +++ Review: 28 March in Valletta: Protest action marking 7 years of criminalisation of the El Hiblu 3 +++ Outlook: 30 May at Frankfurt Airport against deportations; 12–14 June in Jena: Entgrenzt – first lawyers’ migration law conference; 12–14 June in Offenbach: Right to the City Forum; 17–19 June in Hamburg: Youth without Borders at the Conference of Interior Ministers; 4 July in Erfurt: ‘Resist’ against the AfD party conference; 4–8 August in Cotonou, Benin: World Social Forum

Dear friends.

80 activists, delegations from 15 cities, plenary sessions and working groups in 6 languages: We’ll Come United’s exchange and strategy meeting in Darmstadt in early March 2026 exceeded our own expectations. Important agreements were reached regarding joint mobilisations and decentralised actions. There were in-depth internal discussions, including on challenges in the processes of self-organisation. Furthermore, the refaced website and the newly published book provide a collective framework for further stabilising or even expanding the germanwide network with its transnational connections in the coming months.

There will be a greater need than ever for reliable structures within transnational networks as the next wave of attacks on the rights of refugees and migrants looms this year, with the introduction of CEAS and return hubs, alongside the EU-wide tightening of migration controls. Far-right and fascist parties and organisations are emulating the ICE model from the US, whilst the supposed firewalls have already degenerated into mere decorative hedges.

In a transnational context, we would like to recommend two recent publications. Firstly, friends from Ljubljana have published a comprehensive book: „The Balkan Corridor – 10 Years After“. Secondly, Border Forensics has published an in-depth study on the deadly developments in the English Channel: „How ‘Stopping the Boats’ Kills…“. Secondly, two further comments on the situation in Italy: Meloni suffered a heavy defeat in the referendum on so-called judicial reform on 22–23 March, which is likely to have repercussions beyond this vote. And a few days later, on 28 March 2026, – in parallel with the No Kings mobilisations in the US – over 100,000 people took part in a mass demonstration in Rome against the post-fascist government. The central mobilisation slogan here was: “Together Against Kings and Their Wars”.

In this spirit with solidarity greetings, 

the Kompass crew