Through the teargas, I saw something missing from German politics for too long: hope | Scott Roxborough

I joined thousands of people blockading the AfD’s Erfurt congress. A civil disobedience movement is showing how to beat the far right At 5am on Saturday morning, I found myself jogging across a field with a few hundred strangers, on my way to block a highway. We were just outside the east German city of Erfurt, one of several groups setting up roadblocks to try to stop delegates from reaching the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party conference. We set up facing a row of police in riot gear – helmets on, batons ready – filming us with cameras on monopods. A few years ago, I would h

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