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As more or less announced for some time, Turkey last week left the Istanbul Convention, the " Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence" adopted in 2011. Turkey was said to be sufficiently equipped with its laws and constitution to "guarantee women's rights".

Denmark

In Denmark a painting was seen in Copenhagen on occasion of the 150 year anniversary of the Paris Commune. The painting shows the hammer and sickle on red flag and has the slogan "Proletarians of all countries unite!"

Actions were also carried out in Baden-Württemberg to mark March 18. In Freiburg, a demonstration was organized under the slogan "Freedom for all political prisoners", which started with a rally at the square of the old synagogue.

Various organizations from the revolutionary and anti-fascist movement were involved. In the speeches, the participants demanded freedom for different political prisoners, including the imprisoned antifascists Dy and Lina. In the process, mobilization was also made for the demonstration on the 20th in Stuttgart.

The demonstration then moved through the city to the prison, where more speeches were held. In a last speech, revolutionaries demanded to unite even more firmly against the attacks of the bourgeois state and to answer them unitedly. They also called on all present to fight for the freedom of those who have to pay for our struggle with their freedom. In particular, they mentioned in their speech Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, Dr. G.N. Saibaba, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Leonard Peltier and Chairman Gonzalo. They then used their speech to also remember those who were murdered and imprisoned by reaction in the fight for the Paris Commune. The Paris Commune was classified as a decisive event in the history of the proletariat that still resonates in the struggles of our class today. The speech ended with the words "Freedom to all political prisoners!". Long live the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune!"

In Karlsruhe, on the night of March 18-19, a graffiti was painted with the slogan "Long live the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune!"  

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

On the 20th of March, in the city of Stuttgart a combative demonstration marched against state repression and fascism in which about 1000 progressive forces took part, among them was a contingent of proletarian revolutionaries.

In the following we want to give a short overview on the recent actions (suspected) carried out by the Peoples´s Liberation Guerilla Army (PLGA) under the leadership of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) [CPI(Maoist)] in the ongoing People´s War in India.

NATO countries increased their military budgets to $1.1 trillion last year despite the economic crisis. The European countries and Canada in particular increased their budgets, as the Yankees have been demanding for years. This means that the 30 NATO member states are now responsible for 60% of all global military spending. This is further clear evidence that this alleged "alliance of values" is not about defense. They are arming themselves in order to counter the imperialist competition from China and Russia even more aggressively.

The FRG government is also determined to stick to the so-called 2% target. For 2020, it has announced military spending of 51.5 billion euros, although the defense budget is 45.65 billion. This means that the cost of armaments is hidden in other budget items. In the federal government's Corona stimulus package of 2020, they not only approved additional armament projects, but also a new cyber center for the Bundeswehr for 500 million euros. Thus, the imperialist war machine is being further expanded under the guise of fighting a pandemic. And such budgetary trickery is not an isolated case. So-called EU missions in Africa, in which Bundeswehr soldiers were also involved, were in the past also gladly paid from the EU development aid budget.

The anti-militarist "Informationsstelle Militarisierung" sees the arms industry and the Bundeswehr as clear winners of the crisis: "In political terms, the German government is trying to use the Corona pandemic to increase military spending even further." (own translation)