DEM VOLKE DIENEN

We document a video with impressions of the 8th of March in the FRG.

Last Sunday, the state elections took place in Baden-Württemberg. On this occasion, posters were stuck up in the working-class neighborhoods in Freiburg and hundreds of leaflets were distributed propagating the boycott of the election. In Karlsruhe and Lahr, among other places, some posters calling for a boycott of the state elections have also appeared.

With great joy we share a video by the League of Poor Peasents (LCP) in solidarity with the accused and arrested rapper Pablo Hasél in Spain.

On the 4th of March, a 13-year-old boy in Lyon suffered an accident with a scooter, he crashed badly and was put directly into an artificial coma in hospital.

A Woman in Antalya defended herself against a violent husband, who has been violent for a long time, but after a gruesome night of threats, beatings and rape, he hit her on the head with a rifle, then left and threatened that he would kill her and their two children, and so when he came back, she, while being handcuffed on the ground, was able to get control of the rifle and shot him. She was forced to marry him in the first place, because he raped her while she was still in high school and had to give up on her ambitions to become a math teacher.
When she called the police they detained her, and now she is charged with murder and is facing a trial, that could end with a life sentence. The reasoning from the reaction is that she should have contacted the police before or solved the so-called domestic violence in some other way. But when the police is known for doing nothing to help to help women, pushing women back to their abusive men, and when men are regularly acquitted in court for violence and murder within the family, then it should be no wonder why women have to do what it takes to save themselves and their children.
According to the minister of the interior, 266 women were killed by their husbands last year in Turkey, but this is based on lacking reports, and actual number is much higher, in 2009 the number of murdered women were reported to be 953, which was the last year before official statistics on how many women are murdered was put to a halt by Erdogan’s government.
Just one week after the international day of women’s struggle, this case, together with the daily murders of women in Turkey, shows how the old Turkish state is complacent in these crimes.

Finland:

Comrades from Punalippu (Red Flag) reports that on the 8th of March a manifestation was made in Tampere. While the bourgeois politicians and the bourgeois press, tried stop any demonstrations from happening, a contingent of proletarian revolutionaries stood firm and held a manifestation in central Tampere, held high the banner with the text ”Against imperialism and patriarchy” and ”For a revolutionary women’s movement”. A speech was held on why it is more important than ever to wage struggle on this day and to combat the reactionary and chauvanist measures of imperialist Finland

On Saturday night, 6th of March residents of the district Freiburg Haslach met in a bar to play cards. Because of this, the cops rammed down the door and controlled everybody that was present. To this end, tents and a spotlight as high as the roof were put up. The cops were so heavily armed and masked, the residenst fisrt thought special forces were deployed, which the police denied afterwards.

In the following we want to give a short overview of some actions (allegedly) carried out by the New People's Army (NPA) in the Philippines.