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Tjen Folket Media reports that actions were made by Kampkomiteen in Bergen, against rising electricity costs. Fliers were distributed, and the manifestation ended in front of the offices of major energy company, where also a banner condemned the Norwegian Imperialist activity in Chile.

Below we publish a call by the Communist Party of India (Maoist) for participation in the nationwide protests by farmers and peasants on January 31 and the nationwide strike on February 23 and 24.

Former SPD secretary general and SPD executive board member Yasmin Fahimi has been elected DGB chairwoman by the DGB executive board. That an SPD member becomes chair of the DGB (Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund /german federation of trade unions) is nothing new, but is tradition in the leadership of the unions. The party card is obligatory for a union boss. The final decision, which can be considered a formality, will follow in May at the DGB national congress. The party book enables a high function in the union and a high function in the union enables greater influence in politics. In Fahimi's case, one can see very well how this worked. For example, she managed to become secretary general for a short time and later became state secretary in the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs thanks to her party colleague Andrea Nahles.

We publish an unofficial translation of the French song "Les nouveaux partisans" which was sent to us.

A rally for the freedom of Ahmad Sa'adat of the Alliance against Imperialist Aggression took place in Hamburg on the 22nd of January. This rally is part of different actions that have been carried out in the framework of the international solidarity week for Ahmad Sa'adat from the 15th to the 22nd of January.

The Communist Party of India (CPI[Maoist]) had called for days of resistance in several districts on January 21 to 26 to mark the cowardly murder of three comrades in a fake encounter in the Karriguttalu forest area on the Telangana-Chattisgarh state border on Tuesday and to demand the release of a cadre of the party. In this regard, several actions were carried out against the old Indian state.