Dokumente

The comrades of Rote Presse have informed us that they have put the current issue of Klassenstandpunkt online. In this issue, the comrades from the editorial board of Klassenstandpunkt have, among else, written a response to the article of "Kommunistischer Aufbau" on Maoism.

Here we publish pictures of a graffiti in honor of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Friedrich Engels, which we received.

In recent months and years, an increasing erosion of democratic rights can be observed in the FRG, which can be seen not least in the new police laws and currently especially in the so-called Corona measures. The current curfew and the de facto abolition of the inviolability of the home are just two of many examples. But in addition to this open reactionary approach, the state also takes a rather pragmatic unofficial approach to its own legislation.

Since 2018 German police in Rheinland-Pfalz is, according to them, „successfully“ using tasers in everyday patrols. From now on (that is, January 2021) these tasers, officially called „Distance Electro Impulse Devices“, this equipment is also to be used for policing three cities in NRW.

The comrades of Rote Presse have informed us that issue 34 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.

We want to share here a report on this year's LLL demonstration on the 10th of January, published on Tjen Folket Media at the Norwegian comrades.

It was already foreseeable: The lockdown is not expected to end on January 31. Chancellor Merkel and Baden-Württemberg's Prime Minister Kretschmann are pushing to move up the planned talks on an extension.
Kretschmann also wants to determine stricter regulations "as a precaution."

This year's LLL-Demonstration, commemorating the founders of the Communist Party of Germany and the Great Lenin, was different from the demonstrations in the recent years. This was not only due to the state of emergency of the German state and the pandemic, but was inevitably linked to it. The "tradition" of this demonstration is usually a mainly calm and rather boring one, apart from the usual maneuver of the police against the sympathisers and bearers of the symbols and flags of the Kurdish national movement. This year, however, the state chose a different approach to the demonstration. Motivated by the smaller number of participants than the previous years, due to the pandemic, obviously well directed and commanded by the political police and of course incited by their traditional reactionary hatred against all those who call themselves communists, the black-helmeted foot soldiers of German imperialism attacked the demonstration for more than an hour. The pretext used to beat up the participants, torture old people lying on the ground and mistreat many others, was the wearing of the symbols of the former GDR (German Democratic Republic) youth organisation FDJ (Freie Deutsche Jugend; in English: Free German Youth), which are by no means clearly banned in the FRG (Federal Republic of Germany).