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In Sweden there is a campaign to denounce the character of the state while bourgeois elections are currently taking place on the country, as we have published before. There was an agitation in Husby - an area where there is presence of a leftish scene - the agitators denouncing that while under bourgeois rule there cannot be rights for the workers if they to not forcefully demand it, if they do not struggle. Also the Left Party were in the same place with their flyers calling for the bourgeois elections.

In the followig we document a statement of the group Proletarian Autonomy regarding the fascist activities in the german City of Chemnitz this week:

Statement regarding the fascist riots in Chemnitz

On the 26th and 27th of August 2018 pogrom-like riots took place in Chemnitz, provoked mainly by fascist leaders, radical right hooligans and tolerated by the state and police.

The riots began a day after the 35 year old German Cuban Daniel H. was stabbed to death with a knife. His Facebook-Profile reveals that he had an inclination towards the left and that he was antifascist minded. With the fascists who now want to gain political capital out of his death, he had no dealings with.The exploitation of his death, despite the tragedy of the whole affair, follows the logic of the fascist leaders. In this sense, rumors arose after the Chemnitz City Festival that this dispute would have been about the harassment of women. For us, it is insignificant whether or not the alleged offenders have an immigration background.

Since 2017 reactionaries of all sorts in France gather under what they call “Bastion Social”. Closely linked to the Italian Casa Pound and supported by contacts in the Front National and other organisations, there were able to establish a number of locals through France, such as for example in Lyon, Clemon Ferrand or Marseilles. In Marseilles, antifascist militants developed a broad campaign against the opening of the "Bastion Social" local in the town they live in by breaking the windows, trashing the place with red paint and massively mobilizing the people against it.

Now antifascist and maoist militants from Clermont Ferrand also took bold action in their city: Last night, they broke into the local of "Bastion Social", trashed the place and looted at least several flags from there. In a statement published online and signed by both the Antifascist and Revolutionary Cell of Auvergne ("Cellule Anifasciste et Révolutionnaire d'Auvergne" - C.A.R.A.) and the Young Revolutionaries (“Jeunes Révolutionnaires”) the call is made to face fascism blow by blow and to develop popular self-defence. In the images accompanying the statement, four masked militants - all wearing shirts with the symbol of the C.A.R.A. - can be seen showing the banners they took from the local.

Attack on bastion social 2

Link: Facebook

Last week Dem Volke Dienen reported on the successful manifestations and flyer actions carried out by Swedish comrades to kick of their campaign to denounce the electoral farce. In recent days, these actions were complemented by posters at the university and others put up to sabotage the bourgeois parties’ electoral campaigns. In Stockholm’s district of Akalla graffities in support of the campaign were painted on the walls.

Past weekend in several cities of Europe commemorative events for the six fallen Tikko combatants took place. In Stuttgart more than sixty people attended the activity of Partizan in the leftist Lilo Hermann Centrum.

Swedish comrades past week kicked off their campaign to denounce the electoral farce that is currently taking place in Sweden as general elections are scheduled to take place on the 9th of September. Actions were made in various neighborhoods of Stockholm where comrades came together in small manifestations distributing leaflets and carrying a banner calling on the people to choose the struggle outside of the parliament.

In the following we document an English article in full, published today by the comrades of Tjen Folket Media, concerning the struggle against rightist line in their organisation Norway. With this declaration, the comrades of Serve the People / Tjen Folket take a firm stance for the principle of self-reliance, not being tied to state funds, and for open two line struggle rather than facebook slanders as well as a position against revisionism attempting to assume the disguise of Maoism:

On the ongoing struggle against a rightist line in Serve the People
Statement from the leadership in Serve the People - Communist League, August 2018

Anfang August fand in einer Region des ehemaligen Jugoslawiens eine sehr wichtige Solidaritätsaktion für den Genossen Igor Mendes aus Brasilien und die mit ihm gemeinsam verurteilten weiteren 22 Genossen statt.