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In order to support the international campaign on occasion of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx – of which the translation of the central campaign declaration has been published this week – international comrades translated the campaign slogan “Proletarians of all countries, unite!” into two more languages. Hence, we document the Swedish and French banners:

We publish some of the pictures the comrades from Ecuador shared with us for the 8th of March. The declarations that are to be translated end with these slogans:


Long live the working, exploited and opressed women!

Long live the rebelling, revolutionary and communist women!

Long live the proletarian leadership of the peasants struggle!

Long live the workers-peasants alliance!

Long live the Popular Womens Movement!

Long live Marxism-Leninism-Maoism!

Honour and glory to comrade Lorenza Abimanay!

Honour and glory to comrade Norah!

Honour and glory to comrade Sandra!

The great materialist Stephen Hawking died in the age of 76. In his most recent video message he stated:

"I want to share my excitement and enthusiasm about this quest. So remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious, and however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. It matters that you don’t just give up."

Only in 2017, three massacres and 60 murders took place in the countryside of Brazil and this expresses the sharpening of the reactionary civil war in the countryside. The amazonian region was stage of most of these murders and also two of the massacres: Pau D’Arco, in Pará, and Colniza, in Mato Grosso. Despite this, the masses keep resisting and advancing in their struggle.

On March 8th, women around the world waged protests against patriarchy, oppression and imperialism. The activities in India, organized by the CPI (Maoist) directly addressed the violence against women through policemen. Hundreds of women participated. The Maoists claimed that the government uses sexual assault and rape as weapon in their desperate attempts to crush the People's War. The fight against this cruelty of every war and for the proletarian feminism in a part of the world where the People's War is currently taking place upholds the truth that the proletarian feminism is an inseparable part of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, principally Maoism and therefore part of the most powerful and universally valid ideology of our time.

The following is a short overview of the declarations by comrades for the 8th of march.

In Chile, the Popular Revolutionary Student Front (FERP) reaffirmed its class character and origin, the student movement underscores its commitment to "develop the Popular Female Movement" in the country.

"If the revolutionaries do not mobilize, politicize and organize women, the opportunists and corporations of the old state will do so,"; "We must strive to direct the women's movement to  emancipation of the women, a struggle that the opportunism and revisionism of bourgeois and petty-bourgeois feminism stagnate in electoral farce or bureaucratic protocols."

 

Moving forward in politicizing and organizing women in all parts of Brazil, the Popular Women’s Movement (Movimento Feminino Popular – MFP) on occasion of this year’s 8th of March published two new tools broadening their agitation and propaganda. Alongside a new bulletin a whole new website for the MFP was launched, presenting not only recent activities, actions and reports but also explaining the principals and goals of the MFP and giving a brief overview on the history of the MFP in Brazil.

Counterreform

The social security counterreform sanctioned by the shift manager Temer which went into effect since November 11, 2017. Despite some adaptations and changes, this is the biggest attack on the labor rights in recent history.