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The comrades from the editorial team of Rote Post have sent us in advance the editorial of the February issue of the RoPo, which we have translated and would like to share here.

At February 19 was the first anniversary of the Hanau attack. In all parts of the FRGtook placecommemoration events. So is was in Wuppertal as well. A combative demonstration with over 300 people moved through Wuppertal-Barmen. The event was organized by an alliance of revolutionary and progressive forces, for example the Karawane which fight for justice in case of murder of Oury Jalloh.

In Baden-Württemberg  there will soon be state elections and as always, bourgeois parties will use this occasion to drown us with their election propaganda. They try to sell themselves with junk devoid of any content or just appeal that people have to vote in order to change something.

In the long series of entanglements between fascists and Berlin "security authorities" (DVD reported), another incident has occurred. Accompanied by the nice greeting "Dear AfD deputies, enclosed is an expert opinion of the Berlin Office for the Protection of the Constitution on the AfD Berlin", an internal document of the Verfassungsschutz (domestic intelligence) was forwarded to the right-wing party. The 43-page letter then also certifies the AfD's loyalty to the constitution and rejects its assessment as a suspicious case.

On January 11, the police in Singen arrested an 11-year-old Sinto without any justification and, according to the boy, also threatened murder in broken Romanes. Alone the act of arresting a child is illegal in Germany.

On Saturday, January 11, the young Sinto was checked in front of his home for no reason. There the officers found a small legal pocket knife and thereupon handcuffed him and took him to the police station, where he was stuck for an hour and could not even tell his family why he had disappeared.
The cops spoke to him in broken Romanes and said they knew his "gypsy" family. After that they said that the "Mulo" would come for him, which can be translated as death. This should leave no doubt as to the motivation of the act.

This is to be seen as part of the fact that the police are always trying to test the limits of what is socially acceptable and thus expand their possibilities. By terrorizing the children of our class, they want to intimidate the deepest and broadest masses, those who have the most reason to make revolution.
This time, although they have clearly acted against the law and, in addition, have gone so far as to cause an uproar in the bourgeois press, it cannot be expected that this behavior will be seriously punished by the state. The ruling class will probably not want to get rid of good henchmen.

The comrades of Rote Presse have informed us that issue 35 of the Rote Post is online. Furthermore, they have also informed us that after the latest issue reaches them, they will publish the respective previous issue. The latest updated issue can be found here.

After Angela Merkel offered the help of the army to the federal states, a massive additional contingent of soldiers will be deployed once again in Baden Württemberg, as in many other states.

In Baden Württemberg alone, up to 900 soldiers will be deployed across 68 missions. Some until the beginning of July and two of unlimited duration.
The gains the state wants to make from this are manifold:
-first, the Bundeswehr as compensation for the ailing health care system, since it was not considered necessary to take care of the health care system even since the beginning of the pandemic. Here the Bundeswehr, there some state of emergency, all mobilizations to temporarily cope with the next challenge. The German state is not at all in a position to guarantee adequate health care for the population.
-Secondly, the reputation of the Bundeswehr is to be raised again. It should be seen as a helper. As if that would make up for the fact that it murders abroad for the economic interests of the imperialists.
-third, the deployment of the Bundeswehr in the interior is normalized. The masses are gradually accustomed to ever greater presence in order to normalize the state of emergency and keep down rebellion against it.
-fourth, the armed forces of the German imperialists take on informer tasks, in this case contact surveillance "in the sense of fighting the pandemic." In this way, the Bundeswehr takes on areas in which it has no business and gains access to data that is otherwise denied to them for good reason.
No matter how "reasonable" the stated reason may seem at first: we don't need soldiers on the streets, but more nursing staff and a health care system that serves us and not the bosses.

 

After the comrades of Rote Presse made the effort to scan the newest issue 18 of the Magazine Klassenstandpunkt, which contains a response to the “criticism” of the German Maoists, we publish an unofficial translation of the preface of the response. We think this is of further use for comrades developing work in imperialist countries, especially to grasp the issue of the front.