Neo-Nazi marches in Dresden religious congregations participated was attended by members and supporters of the neo-Nazi party NPD. In 2008 both anti-fascist groups that operated nationally and liberal parties, concluded that the annual Nazi march in Dresden was no longer a regional issue, but had way outgrown this limited importance by becoming the biggest gathering of Nazis in Germany. Thus, both groups organized protest against the Nazi marches in Dresden nationally. The first did so with the formation of national coalition of antifascist groups. "No Pasaran", an antifascist slogan that originated during the Spanish Civil War, was its program and name. "This year we
Neo-Nazi marches in Dresden the Nazi-march in February 2009 provided the setting for the "Dresden Nazifrei" alliance in fall of 2009. It was announced on an "action conference" organized by "No Pasaran" in Dresden. The conference announced a public call to block the Nazi march. It said: "We will use the tactic of mass blockades in which everybody can participate to prevent the Nazi-march" and it called for the creation of a "framework to plan and coordinate the necessary actions". This framework was created with the official announcement of the creation of the alliance "Dresden Nazifrei" (Dresden without Nazis) in the first week of