DEM VOLKE DIENEN

Recently, the TV channel ARTE released a documentary on the situation of artists in Spain. Since the "Citizen Protection Law" came into force in 2015, popularly known as the Muzzling Law, freedom of expression has been increasingly restricted, especially in the field of culture.

On Saturday 28 August - one year after the death of the Turkish lawyer of the people Ebru Timtik - a memorial demonstration was held in Magdeburg for the martyrs Helin Bölek, Mustafa Kocak, Ebru Timtik and Ibrhaim Gökcek who died in hunger strike.

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The comrades at Tjen Folket Media report on a counter-demonstration against a chauvinist grouping.

The International Office of the KKE (m-l) has published a statement for solidarity with Chairman Gonzalo, which you can find HERE.

The NRW-wide alliance "Stop the Assembly Law" called for the second large-scale demonstration on August 28. Between 4000-5000 demonstrators from all over NRW came to Düsseldorf that day. Alone 700 participants of different revolutionary organizations formed the anticapitalist-internationalist block. A contingent of German and Turkish revolutionaries also participated together in this block.

In the following we are publishing an excerpt from a speech by the leadership of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) on the 20th anniversary of the People's Liberation Guerrilla Army, which was previously published in the 16th issue of the magazine "People's March". ¹

The Partizan Youth Initiative / Marxist-Leninist-Maoist has carried out actions for the freedom of Chairman Gonzalo in four countries in Europe. In Germany, France, Austria and Switzerland, under the slogan "Let's defend the life of Chairman Gonzalo!" banners were hung, murals were made and dazibaos and posters were pasted. The report of the comrades with all the pictures can be found here.

The documentary named „The Uprising of the Middle Class“ presented by ARTE illustrates with different people the collapsing of the so called middle class.