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- ↑ "Let's Mobilize to Jena: The VOICE 25th Anniversary of Refugee Struggle in Germany". OPlatz — Berlin Refugee Movement. OPlatz — Berlin Refugee Movement. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
- ↑ Aaron Bernstein, Francesca Antonini, Lorenzo Fusaro, Robert Jackson (26 November 2019). Revisiting Gramsci's Notebooks. Brill. p. 223. ISBN 9789004417694.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ↑ Monforte, Pierre (2014). Europeanizing contention : the protest against "fortress Europe" in France and Germany (First ed.). New York. p. 56. ISBN 9780857459978.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ↑ Institutional Racism in the Left, Alytusbiennial
- ↑ Perolini, Marco (July 2020). "Movement report Abolish all camps in times of corona: the struggle against shared accommodation for refugees in Berlin". Interface: A Journal for and About Social Movements. 12 (1): 213–224. Retrieved December 7, 2021.
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- ↑ Perolini, Marco (July 2020). "Movement report Abolish all camps in times of corona: the struggle against shared accommodation for refugees in Berlin". Interface: A Journal for and About Social Movements. 12 (1): 213–224. Retrieved December 7, 2021.
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