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Since three days the Iranian government is faced with a series of demonstrations, that erupted and spread to various other parts after some thousand people took to the streets of Masshad, Iran's second-largest city, on Thursday. Denouncing the surge in the prices for basic foods, the high unemployment and the inflation, protesters have repeatedly clashed with Iranian riot police over their demands.
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We share this sad news from Brazil, where the comrade Remís Carla was found dead on the 23th of December, wrapped in a sheet and buried in a hole, 10 meters away from the house of her ex-boyfriend. The latter confessed his murder the same night.
The comrades from the MEPR (Movimento Estudantil Popular Revolucionário – Revolutionary Popular Students Movement) and the MFP (Movimento Feminino Popular – Popular Womens Movement) organised a search campaign for Remis Carla starting on December 19, two days since her last telephone contact with her mother.
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Fury of the masses after the uprising in November 2 in a facility for irrigation.
An important and combative popular uprising against the monopoly of water took place in the city of Correntina1 in November 2 this year, the media monopoly tried to criminalize the movement by calling it criminal and terrorist but, as a result, a bigger demonstration took place in November 11, where around ten thousand people from different neighbouring municipalities were on the streets of Correntina in solidarity to the struggle for the right to water and against the reduction of Arrojado river’s level because of the actions of the landlords and the consent of the environmental organs of the old State. “Igarashi go away!”2 and “we are not terrorists! We defend our rivers!” were slogans that marked the event. In December 1st around five thousand people attended to discuss the water problem in a public audience, and the people made denounces against the actions of the companies and the state concerning the water.
Public audience in December 1st
Also, in a city of Ceará in December 7, the people organized a roadblock with trunks and burning tires and occupied the construction site of the project to redirect the water of the lagoon afterwards. This project aims to supply the Industrial and Port Complex of Pecém and also two municipalities in the outskirts of Fortaleza city. It was denounced that the project doesn’t have an environmental impact study and violates the right to water for the local population.
The monopoly over the water is part of the problem of monopoly of land, as the landlords change the course of rivers to supply agribusiness that increases in the region since the 1970s but especially with the recent policies by the last governments to impulse the agribusiness occupation, counting with imperialism participation. This sharpens the contradiction between the people and latifundium, 156 conflicts concerning water involving 25.579 families were held in Bahia state in the period of 2002 until 2016, being 24 only in 2016, according to CPT3 data.
The dry Northeast has a total area of approximately 700 thousand square kilometres and approximately 23 million people (4 million landless peasants among them), one of the most populated semiarid regions between the tropics. The ground has a low capacity of storing water, the base is solid rock of gneiss or granite and has no space to store water and has a very shallow layer of soil over it, around 1 meter deep. There are some big cracks and openings that sometimes has water in a 60 meters depth, but most times does not worth to dig for it, because it is not proper for consumption.
But the geological and meteorological factors are not the only ones, nor the main reason for the restriction to water in the region. Most of the rivers are seasonal, the exception is São Francisco river, the biggest in the region, and very important for the peoples of Northeast. Most of the water in the region is being destined to agribusiness and mining activities, and the new project of transposition of the river, formulated by opportunism management of the state, were destined to deepen this situation.
It is clear that the situation the right to water is deeply linked to the right to land, with the struggle against latifundium and bureaucratic capitalism in service of imperialism, that restricts the people of the access to natural resources, steals all the natural resources from the people and leave only poverty behind. The struggle is sharpening and is each day clearer that only an Agrarian Revolution to seize all the lands of the landlords, a New Democracy Revolution to seize the big companies to serve the people’s interests and expel imperialism can secure that the peoples will have water, food and dignity.
1 – Correntina is a city in Bahia state, in the north-eastern region of Brazil.
2 – Igarashi is an agribusiness company which has Japanese capital that owns farms in the region.
3 – CPT – Comissão Pastoral da Terra – is a catholic organization that acts in the countryside of Brazil.
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On the 23th of November, the ExNEPe (Executiva Nacional de Estudantes de Pedagogia - National Executive of Pedagogy Students) made several actions on the National Day of Struggle in Defense of Public and Free Education. In the cities of Rio de Janeiro (RJ), Guarulhos (SP), Belo Horizonte (MG), Petrolina (PE), Dourados (MS), Porto Velho (RO) and Itaberaba (BA), demonstrations were held. In other places, like Recife (PE), Montes Claros (MG), Nazaré da Mata (PE), Juazeiro (BA), Luzilândia (PI), Arapiraca (AL), Goiânia (GO) and União dos Palmares (AL), leaflets were spread and other actions executed.In the following, we document pictures and a video of the comrades in Brazil:
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On the 27th of August, peasants of the LCP Northeast took back the land of the Várzea Grande farm in Rio Largo in Brazil's eastern province of Alagoas. In the four months since they have moved, they are faced with constant harassment by the agents of the big landowners and the state. In the face of all intimidation however, the peasants of Várzea Grande last week blocked the mayor highway close by in order to denounce the methods used against them.
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We publish this declaration of the TKP/ML which was already published in german and english and is also available in greek:
Partimiz içinde yaşanan gelişmeler ve ayrışmaya dair “son bir açıklama” yaparak kamuoyunu bilgilendirmek ve yönelimimizi çizmek bir ihtiyaç olarak ortaya çıkmaktadır. Zira Partimizde yaşanan ayrışmaya dair bütünlüklü bir bilgilendirme yanında, partimizin gelinen noktada sınıf mücadelesinin görevlerine odaklanacak bir yönelime hızla sokulması açısından bu açıklamayı önemli görüyoruz. Kamuoyuna yansıyan ve yansımayan boyutuyla ana hatları ve dönüm noktalarını tespit ederek süreci bütünlüklü bir değerlendirmeye tabi tutacağız. Son yaşanan gelişmelerin ne anlam ifade ettiği, parti kamuoyumuza ne anlatmak istediğine dairde perspektifimizi ortaya koyacağız. Zira artık gelinen nokta tüm cepheleri ve hatları çizilmiş, örgütsel ayakları oturmuş, siyasi-ideolojik çizgileri belirginleşmiş net bir ayrışma durumudur. Bu tabloda partimizden bir hizip çalışmasıyla ayrışan grubu nasıl tanımladığımız, ilişkilenmemizin ve yaklaşımımızın ne olacağı, bu grubu siyasal-ideolojik tanımlamamızın ne olduğunu yeniden ve bütünlüklü ilan etmemiz gereken bir aşamaya gelmiş bulunuyoruz.
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Following an information event on the 14th on who Musa Aşoğlu is, Red Guards Austin organized a successful manifestation outside the federal court building in solidarity with Musa Aşoğlu on the 20th, the day his trial began. He was arrested on the 2nd of December of last year under the accusation of being a leading cadre of the Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C).
Statement of the Red Guards Austin:
On December 20, in Austin, Texas, a lightning rally was held outside of the federal court building in solidarity with Musa Aşoğlu, who began trial that same day. Below are a video of the statement and action.
On December 14th a meeting was held to discuss support for Musa and to teach those in attendance more about Musa as well as Halk Cephesi. The chosen venue which we have redacted for security was filled to capacity. Below is a copy of a talk given at the event.
Musa Aşoğlu is a Turkish revolutionary who was arrested in Hamburg, Germany, on December 2, 2016. He has been accused by the fascist Turkish intelligence service of being a central committee member of DHKP-C (Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party/Front).
Because DHKP-C has targeted US imperialists and their interests in Turkey by attacking military and diplomatic personnel, striking a blow against US imperialism, the reactionary US government seeks to extradite him and has placed a $3 million bounty on his head.
Musa is a Dutch citizen, but the US will do everything in its power to extradite and eliminate him. We must therefore organize the fight to prevent this and take actions in solidarity with all those fighting on his behalf in Germany, with the comrades locked in armed struggle in a life-or-death battle with the Turkish state, and with all those who fight US imperialism.
The Belgian government has already charged and acquitted Comrade Aşoğlu once before for alleged membership in the banned DHKP-C, but the Turkish state has long arms and deep pockets. If Musa is extradited, his chances of exoneration and freedom are greatly reduced.
The long reach of the Turkish state can be seen in the recent arrests of nine Turkish revolutionaries in Greece on the morning of November 28 of this year. These nine revolutionaries are also being charged with membership in DHKP-C. They are being held and tortured based on a lie that they were plotting the assassination of Turkish fascist president Erdoğan. Syriza, the allegedly leftist government of Greece, has shown its true colors as the bourgeoisie in the service of Turkish AKP fascism. Social-democrats once again truly prove themselves the twin of fascism.
Revolutionary organizations the world over have begun solidarity actions in defense of Musa, who had been living underground prior to his arrest, which took place in a raid on a safe house. The only “evidence” of his alleged crimes was provided by the Turkish anti-terrorist file service, which is famous for its use of torture to acquire confessions and for falsifying data. These pigs are right now foaming at the mouth for the blood of our comrade.
Musa Aşoğlu is fifty-six years old and has spent most of his life as a revolutionary fighting against US imperialism, Turkish fascism, and the reactionary order of the bourgeoisie. He has, as an internationalist, championed progressive causes all over the world in solidarity with the world proletarian revolution.
As a Turkish comrade in Europe informed me, his father recently passed away. His father’s death happened while Musa was in prison on this recent charge. Musa is so beloved by the people and revolutionaries that his father’s funeral was visited by a bloom of red flags and a procession of masses, workers, and revolutionaries, who attended in Musa’s stead.
We in the US and especially in Austin know from experience that rising fascism leads to the state criminalizing all of the people’s revolutionary and antifascist organizations. We see evidence of this trend in reports from the Department of Homeland Security, as well as local and federal police reports that name Red Guards Austin. We have seen this in the tireless campaigns of reactionaries to have “Antifa” labeled a terrorist organization. We have seen the repressive apparatus of the state attempt hysterically to label people as members or leaders of such organizations. We should understand this as a series of moves building steadily and inevitably toward the banning of revolutionary communist organizations.
We have seen this same process take place in India, China, Turkey, and the Philippines. We should understand what fascism has in store for us—and the practical and necessary response to this understanding means carrying our water as antifascists, internationalists, and anti-imperialists.
Musa is one of us! His life is an example of what it means to be a revolutionary antifascist. We must oppose the US imperialist bribe of $3 million and show our comrades abroad that there are those in the belly of the beast who stand with Musa Aşoğlu.
We must unite behind the slogan “Making revolution is no crime!”
Freedom for Musa Aşoğlu!
Death to fascism and imperialism!
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On the 25th of December, Alberto Fujimori, former president of Peru and convicted for genocide (by the reactionary old peruvian state!), got released by the current yankee lackey president of Peru, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski. This release is no surprise and elaborated for a long time. The Communist Party of Peru wrote in their declaration on occasion of the centenary of the Great Socialist October Revolution:
"The Yankee PPK has recently met with the United Nations representative of foreign affairs issues and plans of their "Human Rights" (HR), which are nothing but the rights of the bourgeoisie and to guarantee the crimes of the old Peruvian state, he said that the UN told him to submit the genocide Fujimori to an examination of international doctors; for what? To give the pardon. They guarantee the genocides of the bureaucratic way and want to fulfil their main counter-revolutionary task of destroying the PW and the CPP."
