DEM VOLKE DIENEN

In the village of Sulak (Kurdish: Bafê) in south-eastern Turkey, the inhabitants are fighting a debt of one million Turkish liras, which the local peasants are now supposed to pay themselves for a water pump bought for the village 20 years ago. Meanwhile, the electricity to run the pumping station was cut off to the village three months ago.

The comrades from the editorial team of Rote Post have sent us in advance the editorial of the February issue of the RoPo, which we have translated and would like to share here.

At February 19 was the first anniversary of the Hanau attack. In all parts of the FRGtook placecommemoration events. So is was in Wuppertal as well. A combative demonstration with over 300 people moved through Wuppertal-Barmen. The event was organized by an alliance of revolutionary and progressive forces, for example the Karawane which fight for justice in case of murder of Oury Jalloh.

During the past week, several actions were again carried out (allegedly) by the People's Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA) under the leadership of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) [CPI(Maoist)] in People's War in India.

In Baden-Württemberg  there will soon be state elections and as always, bourgeois parties will use this occasion to drown us with their election propaganda. They try to sell themselves with junk devoid of any content or just appeal that people have to vote in order to change something.

As we reported earlier, France is in thefight against so-called "Islamism".  But this is not only happening nationally, but also internationally.

In the Şişecam factory (bottle and glass production company) in Bursa, glass workers have started the economic struggle inside the factory as a result of the imposition of unpaid leave at the end of 2020 against some employees, while there are to be 64 new hires. In the first days of the unpaid leave, there were collective marches to the factory. For three months now, workers have consistently stopped working overtime.