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Comrades from both A Nova Democracia from Brasl and the English-language New Epoch Media have reported on the participation of the Maoist contigent of the LLL Demonstration. A report from DemVolkeDienen on this demonstration in German can be found here.

In the following, we document the article published by New Epoch Media:



Translated from A Nova Demcracia, with information from the newspaper El Pueblo

On the afternoon of January 9, artisanal fishermen raised burning barricades and blocked the entrance to the port of San Vicente, Talcahuano, in the region called Bío Bío.

The Military police officers, aboard an armored vehicle - the "caveirão" -, made an operation in the Chacrinha favela, in Praça Seca, and executed three people, among them a young boy with autism. According to reports from the residents, the military police arrived early firing at the population on the street.

More than 50,000 protesters took to the streets of France again in the eighth major protest against the government of Emmanuel Macron and its anti-people measures on 5 January. The protests took place in several cities and assumed violent form, mainly in Paris, spreading through the poor districts.

The so-called "Lima Group," made up of governments from 13 Latin American countries, decided not to recognize the Venezuelan government of Nicolás Maduro, who takes office on January 10. The decision was taken at a meeting held on January 4. The current Foreign Minister of Bolsonaro military government, Ernesto Araújo, attended the meeting.

While the question of the “Brexit” still continues to be a focal point in the persisting political crisis in Britain, police and military are already preparing for what they consider the worst case scenario: a “hard border” within Ireland. In fear of what is to come, now plans have been put into motion to train almost 1.000 additional cops from England and Scotland for they deployment in Northern Ireland before the end of March.

The Taliban (or Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan), an armed organization that acts as part of the Afghan National Resistance, issued a report on the ongoing war of resistance in that country against the imperialist occupation led by US imperialism. The report on the progress of Mujahideen (combatants) and territorial control from the end of the year, translated into English and published on the official Taliban website on 31 December, is sub-entitled The Year of Collapse of Trump’s Strategy, signed by the Commission for Cultural Affairs of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.

On occasion of the current week of Martyrs of the Party and Revolution comrades of IKK published two videos commemorating two combatants of the TIKKO: Ferdi and Zilan. Both gave their live for the revolution through the People’s War led by the TKP/ML and are forever etched into the memory of the international proletariat. Both, as well as ten more combatants of the TIKKO died, when the Turkish army, gathering a massive amount of troops and special forces, attacked the region of Aliboğazı in Dersim in between the 24th and 28th of November 2016.