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On the occasion of May Day there were actions, marches and rallies in the whole Ruhr area. We would like to report on a few of them here.

In the night leading up to Mayday several red flags with hammer and sickle were spotted in Leipzig. We publish pictures that were sent to us.

On April 6, raids on fascists took place throughout Germany. These are directed against the supporters and members of a branched fascist network consisting of various groups, which overlap with each other. A total of 61 objects were searched. The basis for the searches were five different criminal cases. Among the accused is an active Bundeswehr soldier with the rank of sergeant.

On Thursday, April 28, thousands of preschoolteachers and social workers in NRW went on strike. Additional strike rallies and marches were held in Essen, Dortmund and Cologne respectively.

The following pictures were sent to us

Global spending on armaments and the military reached an all-time high last year in 2021. According to SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute), states spent a combined total of 2.1 trillion dollars on rearmament. The front-runners, as expected, are the Yankees with spending of 801 billion dollars. The USA is followed by China, India, Great Britain and Russia. The FRG is in seventh place with 56 billion dollars.

We reproduce here an article published by Samidoun-Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network on the mass demonstrations in Berlin at the weekend.

Marking Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, Samidoun Deutschland organized a mass demonstration in the streets of Berlin, where large crowds of Palestinian and Arab youth participated in the march, along with representatives of German leftist parties and solidarity organizations. The massive demonstration launched from the Neukölln district’s town hall, proceeding down Sonnenallee, a street packed with Arab and Palestinian shops and restaurants and a central meeting point for the community.

Easter marches took place in several cities in NRW last weekend, including Dortmund, Cologne and many cities in the Ruhr region. A broad spectrum of democratic and progressive forces mobilized in the various cities with participant numbers in the four-digit range in some cases, such as in Düsseldorf. The question of the imperialist aggression of Russian imperialism was omnipresent and the haggling of the different imperialist powers with this situation was denounced in many speeches.