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Hundreds of demonstrators gathered last Sunday, February 24, in front of the Vale Minas Gerais Memorial, in Praça da Liberdade [Freedom Square], in Belo Horizonte, a month after the crime of Vale in Brumadinho, which occurred on January 25, 2019.

With slogans written on banners and posters, those present demanded justice for the victims of the crime in dam 1, at Córrego do Feijão Mine. Crosses were drawn on the ground and a mock-up of a dam that drained blood instead of mud was made. In addition to harshly criticizing the murderer Vale, the protesters have clearly shown the fear that more dam ruptures will occur again in the state.

For more than 62 years, the Indian state is occuping the Kashmir and Jammu region of northern India. In the majority Muslim state, there is massive resistance against the Hindutva occupiers since the invasion of Indian troops, which manifests itself in a variety of actions.

Since the end of 2018, student demonstrations for climate protection have regularly taken place in Europe. Most of the lessons are blacked on Fridays to carry the concerns of the students to the street. Meanwhile, in the FRG, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, the Netherlands and Belgium a total of up to 100,000 students protest every week.

In the past couple of weeks, comrades in Colombia have developed their campaign to support the struggle of the Venezuelan people against the imperialist intervention in their country. For this, the comrades made a series of wall paintings in the University of Antioquia (UdeA) in Medellin, where also previous campaigns had already resounding success.

The anger and hatred that came down upon the bourgeois French state and its reforms with a multitude of actions – from strikes, to blockades and demonstrations, to all out country-wide rioting against the police and targeted attacks on state institutions -  in what came to be known as the Yellow Vests Movement was a great outburst of the masses. In the face of such broad struggles, the state aims to break the fighting spirit of the people by means of repression and targeting those most advanced, as could also be seen clearly in the struggles against the G20.

On January 25 this year, a huge environmental crime occurred in the city of Brumadinho, Minas Gerais. Such a crime also happened just over three years ago in the municipality of Mariana, also in Minas Gerais, and with the same involved company - the notorious Vale.

 

These cases, however, are only "the tip of the iceberg". Mining activity in Brazil has been developed over the centuries by latifundium oligarchies, by the big bourgeoisie and by colonialism and imperialism, as a form of domination and subjugation of the Brazilian people. The deaths due to the inhuman condition that mineral extractivism imposes are not infrequently.

 

The Yemeni war is one of many where German imperialism takes part in open or hidden ways. Even though it does not appear in the official portrait of the Bundeswehr, the FRG does play a role in this war, in which among others the allies of the FRG (through NATO) USA, Great Britain and France take part by „logistical support“.

During and after the successful Bandh in the guerrilla zones and liberated areas of India, the People's Liberation Guerrilla Army, with the support of the broad masses and under the leadership of the Communist Party of India (maoist), has undertaken several actions to further develop and spread the People's War.

On the day of the armed strike, on January 31, the People's Liberation Guerrilla Army carried out an action in which a truck of a construction company was lit and used as a blockade for an important main road.