DEM VOLKE DIENEN

The decree made by the manager of the Republic of Brazil Temer in February 16 for the military intervention in Rio de Janeiro is a measure that promotes the centralization of the different repression apparatus under the command of the Armed Forces.

Walter Souza Braga Netto, general of the Military Command of the East (CML) since 2016, who was appointed as the intervener acted in the federal intervention on Espírito Santo in 2017 and also acted during the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Netto also appointed the general Richard Fernandes to be the secretary of security in order to promote centralization.

This centralization means a leap in the repression against the people in the city.

To intensify the war actions against the people the commander and General of the Army, Eduardo Villas Bôas, affirmed in a meeting of the Council of the Republic that is necessary to grant "guarantee to act without the risk of a new Commission of Truth is created".
The referred commission had represented no effective advance for the punishment of the crimes of the military regime at all; it was supposed to investigate tortures, murders and disappearing made by the Armed Forces during that time. However, despite not punishing the murderers and torturers, the Commission was inconvenient for some high-ranking officers for eliciting some of their actions.

Also he suggested that the military crimes that will be done during this intervention should only be judged by the Military Justice and also he admits the possibility of the practice crimes as barbarous as the ones perpetrated during the military regime should be admitted.

One day before de minister of Defense Raul Jungmann affirmed that Eduardo Villas Bôas foresaw the necessity of collective arrest warrants in the areas considered conflagrated, which means the military forces will have permission to invade any street, neighborhood, or whole regions.

Despite the harsh rains and floodings, the lack of electricity in many areas for long periods and the attack made by the military police in the favelas, the people are raising in revolt practically every day in many different places of the city. Only organizing this growing revolt can the people resist the attacks of the old State and create the New Power in the favelas.

People revolted after the murder iof a worker in Duque de Caxias municipality in the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro in February 21.

During the revolt in Duque de Caxias the people burnt a bus and raised a burning barricade in the street.

People revolted after a woman was shot by the police in Cantagalo favela, Rio de Janeiro January 22.

The Indian Home Minister Ramsewak Paikra was lately accused of not fighting successfully enough against the Maoists by his opposition. To keep his face, he revealed the numbers of killed, arrested and surrendered comrades and of confiscated weapons and landmines of the past two years. Those numbers - published by the “Times of India” - would proof that the governmental “Anti-Naxal operations and policies” could decline the Maoists activities in several areas. Unfortunately, losses and setbacks are an inevitable reality of war. But Paikra is only trying to irritate the people – and of course he wants to stay in office. Reality, on the other hand, speaks another language than Paikra, who almost certainly palliated his numbers. Especially when it comes to “surrendered” comrades the bourgeois press has published fake numbers repeatedly and had to admit that later on. And the “Times of India” itself (as well as other bourgeois periodicals) underlines the continuing success of the Maoists by publishing news on Maoist activities weekly. Those listed beneath are only a few examples of five days.

We publish a not revised english translation of the document posted on the blog https://serviraopovo.wordpress.com/:

Celebrate the 170 years of the Manifesto of the Communist Party

Centre for Studies of the marxism-leninism-maoism

Five years ago – on the 21th of February 2013 - Juan Pablo Jiménez, himself a trade-union activist, was shot dead on his way to work at the electrical engineering company Azeta. Soon after, protests started as the police investigations seemingly went nowhere. In the end, the police produced some 16 year old gunslinger who supposedly shot dead Jiménez from a distance of 1035 meters with a 9mm handgun. A bogus story never believed by his friends, family and activists as he was due to take part in a meeting denouncing the companies anti trade-union practices the very day after he was murdered. Commemorating him and demanding justice, a combative demonstration was held last week.

In a massive mobilization activity comrades from Columbia took to the streets of Medellin on the 9th of February. The short marches and combative speech, slogans and songs held by the activists addressing the issues of the broadest and deepest masses soon drew in a big crowd. Combating the cutbacks in the lives of the rural and urban workers, the comrades mobilized in defense of the basic workers rights, such as the raising of wages, the reduction of the costs for daily living and cheaper public transportation.

Proletarians of all countries, unite!

Joint declaration of the Red Women Committees in Austria and the FRG:

Unleash the wrath of the women as a mighty weapon for the revolution!

Shoulder to Shoulder, united in the struggle of the revolutionary women in all the world, the Red Women Committees in Austria and the FRG call on the combative women to make this 8th of March a joyful and decisive day of struggle of the women in the heart of the imperialist beast. This struggle is closely connected to the struggle in the storm centers of the world revolution, the oppressed nations. Spurning the hypocritical crocodile tears and promises of the rulers and combating the double exploitation and oppression, women take their place side by side with their class comrades in struggle for political power, for the dictatorship of the proletariat, for the emancipation of the whole humankind.

Today the arrest warrants of 4 of the 10 accused in the TKP/ML trial were dropped. The Higher Regional Court of Munich put an end to the investigative custody, the revolutionaries still have to show up at the cops regularily and be present on the trial days.

Comrades in Stockholm announce to spread thousands of leaflets at the beginnig of school after winter regarding the topics "Down with Imperialism!", "Stop pinch!", "Increase student grants!" and "The school lies about Sweden!".

We publish an inofficial translation of the first leaflet: