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A month ago, on the 3rd of August, fascist Patrick Crusius drove to the US-Mexican border town of El Paso only to kill 22 people at a Walmart in what he called the “response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas”. In the face of this murder, many US politicians such as Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick not even paid lip service to antifascism (before, of course, stating that this can only be done in the most toothless way imaginable to, in the next breath, denounce real, combative antifascism) but went directly on the offensive, warning all antifascists to “Stay out of El Paso” and the state of Texas in general. Also Greg Abbott, the Governor of Texas, was quick to turn the table, announcing at the funeral celebration of the victims of the mass shooting to create a new Task Force against Domestic Terrorism - whose target however will not be to stop fascists or planned massacres against people perceived as Mexicans immigrants but to combat “Hate crime and extremism” in Texas. One must not think very hard who the principle target of such an organization will be - the revolutionary forces in Texas – it is enough to remember, that in the aftermath of the shooting and in the face of anarchist protests the very same Dan Patrick also called for classifying “antifascists” to be “terrorists”. This was  a question directly picked up by Trump.

On Friday, August 30th, revolutionary and anti-imperialist forces, from various oppressed nations as well as the FRG, held a rally under the slogan "Against the imperialist Aggression - Yankee go home" at a central location in downtown Bremen. Just a day earlier, the US Department of Defense confirmed that a military mission had been launched under the guise of a mission to protect ships crossing the Strait of Hormuz.

As we reported last week the Papua are uprising in the state of Indonesia and claiming for national liberation, an end of racism against their people and an end of repression by the security forces and other reactionary elements. Meanwhile the security forces started to murder in pubic, but this is not a defeat for the rebellion, but in the opposite it is watering the struggle.

Two days ago combatants of the Liberation Army of the Workers and Peasants of Turkey (TIKKO) have conducted a successful action in the capitol of Turkey, Istanbul. In the business district of Sarıgazi a bank and the local PPT (postal service) branch were bombed and attacked with a molotov cocktail. To complement these actions, a banner was hung up with the signature of “TKP/ML-TIKKO”

Today the courts in Munich withdrew the arrest warrant issued against the Turkish activist Deniz Pektaş who stands accused in the so-called TKP/ML trials for supposedly being a high ranking member of that organization and, hence, of  having violated "anti-terror" paragraph 129a/b. On the condition to still having to attend court session, he was released after he spend more then four years in prisons of the German state, partially in solitary confinement, without ever being sentenced for a crime.

 

On August 22, 2016 Mapuche leader and environmental activist Macarena Valdés was found hanging dead from the kitchen ceiling, being murdered for imperialist interests. Macarena opposed and organized the Mapuche community against the hydropower plant of the Austrian energy company RP Global on the nearby Tranguil River.

In the following we document the translation and video of the Mexican comrades mobilising for a series of regional events called the "Workshops for Ideological and Political Formation", that are soon to take place in a number of places.

The Workshops for Ideological and Political Formation 2019 are coming!

Comrades from Dazibao Rojo have documented a picture of an action in support of the international campaign for Dr. Sernas to be presented alive and well and for justice for the murdered Luis Armando to be served. The picture taken in Galica shows the extend of the campaign initiated by the Mexican comrades from Sol Rojo, that with the posters put up now by the comrades has further extended to also stretch to the Iberian Peninsula.