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Yesterday, at the 29.08.2023 the political prisoner Thomas Meyer Falk was released after over 26 years of captivity. A long time of this he was inprisoned at so called “preventive detention” which is based on a law, which was introduced by the German fascists.

 

25. August:

There is news in the case of the four arrested activists of the Manoel Ribeiro camp. The activists Estefane, Ricardo, Ezequiel and Luiz Carlos were summoned again for a hearing on August 25. The four farmers and activists have faced constant repression since their arrest on May 14, 2021, as part of a process against them based on false evidence and the political will to criminalize the struggle for land that is gaining momentum in Brazil.

After a month-long stalemate, the governing parties have finally achieved and agreed on a compromise on the so-called basic child security. In addition to the government's obvious and well-known inability, it is also striking in this respect that poverty is in no way reduced, limited or even combated by the new regulations.

In early August, the Springer (BILD etc.) press and various AfD-affiliated blogs, etc., once again ran big chauvinistic headlines about a "criminal migrant" being protected by the German state. This was in fact about a crime against the people - a 23-year-old Afghan from Regensburg who came to Germany in 2015 had sexually harassed and raped several young women and girls (the youngest was 16) between 2019 and 2022.

The German economy is in the midst of an ongoing economic crisis. After the GDP fell by 0.1 percent in the first quarter of this year, it stagnated at 0 percent in the second quarter. The International Monetary Fund forecasts a decline in German economic output of 0.3 percent for the whole of 2023, while the Leibniz Institute for Economic Research even predicts a decline of 0.4 percent.

On the second of August, the Federal Ministry of Interior and Homeland, under the control of Interior Minister Nancy Faeser, published a discussion draft on the issue of asylum law. The content of this draft provides for an expansion of powers for police and authorities in deportations and represents a clear attack on the rights of refugees.

Ecuador:
In the run-up to the legislative and presidential elections in Ecuador, the first round of which took place on August 20, a deadly confrontation has occurred within the Ecuadorian big bourgeoisie between bureaucratic faction and the comprador faction. On August 9, Fernando Villavicencio, a presidential candidate in the upcoming elections who according to Ecuadorian comrades represents the comprador bourgeoisie, was assassinated in an assassination attempt. Before the assassination, the candidate had reported receiving threats from the "Los Choneros" cartel, but an opposing group called "Los Lobos" claimed responsibility for the attack. According to a statement by the "Front for the Defense of Popular Struggles in Ecuador," the assassination of Villavicencio is an expression of the serious crisis in which the country finds itself. They further state that the elections, which were brought forward by the incumbent President Lasso, are an expression of the need for Yankee imperialism to reposition itself in the region in times of developing inter-imperialist contradiction with Chinese social imperialism and Russian imperialism.

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