DEM VOLKE DIENEN

Alternative sports lessons for primary school pupils in a school playground in Cologne [Source: sportschau.de].

According to estimates by the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB), 31 billion euros will be needed to enable the urgent renovation of ailing sports facilities in Germany. The DOSB counts a good 230,000 sports facilities in total. Particularly affected are the 35,000 sports halls and about 7,500 swimming pools.

As already reported, federal state elections in Hessen took place on October 8, 2023, in which especially the three parties that currently make up the German government had to record large losses of votes. An expression of the fact that by the society away the traffic light government is rejected by large parts of the population by the bank. Which one can see particularly if one reads off the actual election results on the basis the real numbers of all eligible voters and sees that only 22,52% of the possible voices fall on the traffic light parties altogether.

From October 10 to 12, the so-called "Joint Air and Space Power Conference" of NATO took place in Essen. The aim and purpose of this Nato conference, which is organized by the "Joint Air Power Competence Centre" based in Kalkar, is to promote the exchange between military command personnel of different Nato members among themselves. In addition, representatives from the arms industry and bourgeois political advisors from think thanks representing different factions of the respective bourgeoisie also regularly come to such occasions. The host of this event, the Joint Air Power Competence Centre, is one of 28 so-called "Centres of Excellence" established by NATO, which function as national or often multinational military service centers and aim to bundle the various NATO forces under one focus topic. In this case it is about warfare in the air and in space.

On October 8, federal state elections were held in both Bavaria and Hesse. What both elections show above all is a clear loss of confidence of the population in the current government. But also other things can be seen from this election result. In the following article, we will now take a closer look at the elections in Bavaria.

Brazil:
Oct 05:
In the Brazilian state of Bahia, poor peasants of the Support Committee of the Mãe Bernadete land occupation repelled an attack by armed police officers and sent them fleeing. When the police entered the property of the occupation with a vehicle under the pretext of searching for a wanted criminal, the poor peasants attacked the police of the old Brazilian state without hesitation. The poor peasants were also able to find in the back of one of the police vehicles a man named "Marquinho da Barrinha", who was supposed to obtain information about the camp in the service of the Latifundium. The occupation continues to grow, according to the newspaper A Nova Democracia, benefiting especially from the support of the League of Poor Peasants.

The comrades of Rote Presse have informed us that issue 68 of the Rote Post is online. Furthermore, they have also informed us that after the latest issue reaches them, they will publish the respective previous issue. The latest updated issue can be found here.

In the FRG there is the increasing development of the reactionarization of the bourgeois state. This also goes hand in hand with the development over many years that the powers of the executive, i.e. the government and the authorities, are being extended further and further and thus the power of the legislative and judiciary are being limited in order to concentrate the power in the bourgeois state in the hands of the executive.

In many offices, the problem of staff shortages and the associated limitations in their ability to act is currently apparent to varying degrees. This is currently culminating in the conditions in and in front of the Foreigners' Office in Stuttgart. Here, the problems have become so acute that one can speak of a current inability to act on the part of the office. The sufferers of these conditions are above all all those people who do not come from the FRG and now see their livelihoods threatened. Many of them start in their desperation to spend the night in front of the office despite the cold.