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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.

On occasion of yesterdays 125th Birthday of Chairman Mao, not only comrades in the FRG took action, but internationally, in many countries, comrades held combative events and published declarations on the teachings of Chairman Mao. Some comrades, on occasion of this anniversary, also took up the opportunity to link these actions with manifestations of solidarity with the international campaign for Dr. Sernas Garcia to be presented alive.


Amid a wave of protests, the arch-reactionary government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban imposed a cuton the  workers' rights by a law that became popularly known as the "law of slavery." The measure, which was approved on December 12 and promulgated on December 20, allows monopolies to compel workers to accumulate 400 extra hours a year and only pay them in parts over a three-year period.

In support of the international campaign #DrSernasPresentaciónConVida for the alive presentation of comrade Dr. Ernesto Sernas Garcia, who was forcefully “disappeared” by the reaction, activists in the FRG in the last couple of weeks have produced a number of stencils with a lasercutter with his likeness and, together with a leaflets explaining the situation of the comrades in Mexico, send them to different internationalist and anti-imperialist localities throughout the country.

Today, 125 years ago, one of the great titans of though and action, Chairman Mao Tse-Tung, was born. On occassion of his birthday, actions took place in Berlin and Hamburg in which his conterfei was painted together with the slogan „Long live Chairman Mao!“ and in which the banner with the hammer and sickle was hoisted.

The Philippine Armed Forces (PAF) has been carrying out massive and offensive bombings since early December in the provinces of Eastern Misamis, Bukidnon and Southern Agusan, in the Mindanao region. The bombings threaten and reach the peasant regions where the New People's Army (NPA), led by the Communist Party of the Philippines (PCPh), is celebrating its 50th anniversary.