DEM VOLKE DIENEN

Camera surveillance in Hamburg is already very extensive. Large parts of the city center and the area around the main station are comprehensively screened with cameras, every subway station is monitored and there are also cameras without end in so-called dangerous places. From mid-July, however, the city is planning a new project in terms of camera surveillance. Near the central station, at Hansaplatz in St. Georg, surveillance cameras based on artificial intelligence will be used in the future.

The Militarization in the FRG continues to advance. This can be seen not only in the 100 billion special assets for the Bundeswehr or in the recently adopted federal financial budget, where pretty much everything is saved, except the military but also in the restructuring and reorganization of the Bundeswehr and its soldiers. The so-called reservists also play a not insignificant role in this. Thus, shortly after the war of aggression of Russian imperialism on Ukraine, it was decided to establish new homeland protection regiments, which are mainly composed of reservists.

On June 24 there was this year's „Cristopher Street Day (CSD)“ in Freiburg. At the edge of this there was a violent action from the police against some people who had participated in this event. A journalist who documented this faces now a criminal charge by the police.

Norway

Activists of Kampkomiteen (Struggle Committee) has put up posters in solidarity with the poor peasant Luzivaldo de Souza Araújo and his brother Robélio in Brazil have been put up in Kristiansand. Both have wrongfully been imprisoned since 2019. Luzivaldo has been subjected to poor conditions and abuse in prison and has been denied medical aid.

India:

24th June : Posters against the killing of three Maoist fighters have appeared in Kalahandi district of Odisha state, causing fear and panic in the camp of the old Indian state. The posters paid tribute to three Maoist fighters killed in a fake encounter on May 9 and stated that the three revolutionaries were not killed in a firefight but tortured to death. The posters also highlighted the lives and achievements of the three martyrs for the new democratic revolution and called on the masses to support the bandh (author's note: armed general strike) on June 25. Posters were also found in Rayagada district warning against acting as police informers or face serious consequences.

The months-long debates on the federal budget 2024 and the financial planning until 2027 again show the weakness of the government. The same applies to the outcome of these disputes, which is to be immediately heard by Parliament.

In the past few days, the Berlin Senate, led by the new black-red government (which agreed on a coalition agreement under the name “The Best for Berlin”), published a first draft for the allocations for funds available to the districts in the years 2024/2025. The district of Neukölln has hit it particularly hard, in a communication from the district council of Wednesday it said: “[...] the district office of Neukölln for the financial years 2024/2025 [miss] per year 22.8 million euros to hold the status quo.” The district then presented a strike list that shows how the rulers does not care about the situation of the neighborhoods.

Last week, it became known through a question initiated by Fanhilfe (fan aid) Magdeburg and presented via the Left Party in the Saxony-Anhalt state parliament that the police had used drones to monitor fans at 1. FC Magdeburg's home games against Hamburger SV and Hansa Rostock in April.