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Appropriately named is the company that produces the new analysis tool for Germany's police: "Palantir", like the seeing stones used in the Lord of the Rings by the dark lord Sauron, among other things to spy on his enemies and bend them to his will.

Norway

Comrades in Bergen have painted slogans on public walls, on occasion of the initiation of the peoples war in Peru.

 

Denmark

An article has been published by comrades from Socialistisk Revolution, that stresses in the face of the upcoming plebiscite, where the government wants to legitimize its decision to remove one of the “special exemption”, that were part of a compromise called the “Edinburgh Agreement”, when Denmark ratified the Maastricht Treaty, a compromise also made due to protest from the masses regarding the EU. The “special exemption” the government want to remove, is the exemption from the EU common military actions, as the government want to be more active in foreign military intervention, in collusion with other imperialists in the EU. The article from Socialistisk Revolution stresses, that the plebiscite itself is not so important, since it does not change anything fundamentally about Danish imperialism, but that the focus should be on condemning Danish imperialism and in particular the current militarization and increase of military budget, including condemning the participation of Denmark in the EU and NATO, exemption or not.

 

So this is what defence looks like.

To thunderous applause from the members of the German Bundestag, Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced on 27 February the special fund of 100 billion euros with which the Bundeswehr is to be upgraded. The much-mentioned so-called "turn of the times" was what would make this special fund necessary and Russia's war against Ukraine would be used as a pretext. Scholz and consorts kept talking about having to defend democracy. Now, in joint negotiations with the CDU, the government has decided to divide up the special assets. But what is planned has little to do with defence.

The revolutionary hip-hop group Ameaça Vermelha from Brazil has released a new song and music video that we would like to share here. The song is called "Long Live Ibrahim Kaypakkaya" and is a salute to the TKP/ML, Ibrahim Kaypakkaya's party, which turned 50 this year.

Food delivery service Gorillas has announced it will lay off 300 workers, mostly in Berlin.

The left-wing musician Ihsan Cibelik was arrested on May 16 along with two other turkish leftists. They are accused of allegedly being members of DHKP-C. We received pictures of graffiti demanding Ihsan's freedom.

Reports of racial profiling, migrants being racially insulted and beaten up by the cops and in some cases even murdered, all this is unfortunately not uncommon. Even if the government often tries to present it differently, racist police violence is everyday life in Germany.

Even when large parts of the "Corona measures" were lifted at the beginning of April, one thing remained: The relaxed rules in the application of short-time work justified by the pandemic. The German Bundestag extended the so-called facilitated short-time allowance until 30 June 2022. In concrete terms, this means that the maximum period of entitlement to short-time allowance has been extended from 24 to 28 months. In addition, it is sufficient if at least ten percent of employees are affected by work loss, although according to actual legislation at least one third of a company's workforce must be affected.