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We are very pleased to share here an important document of the Communist Party of Turkey / Marxist-Leninist (TKP/ML). After publishing the statement of the Politburo of the Central Committee on the 1st Congress of the party history in English in May 2019, the full documents of the Congress have now been translated into English.

Denmark

On the 9^th of January protests against the restrictions of democratic rights was held in Copenhagen with between 200 and 250 protesters. The protesters denounced the de facto annulment of the freedom of assembly, that the state is enforcing and questioning why the all the measures against corona put all the burden on the people. There was in several speeches mentioned that there is no democracy in Denmark, and that all members of parliament do not serve the interests of the people and that it would be necessary to “wreck the system”. The demonstrators blasted a song called “Mette Ciao”, which is a remix of the Italian partisan song Bella Ciao, with the name referring to social-democratic Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen.

The yearly march in commemoration of the Martyrdom of the founders of the Communist Party of Germany, the eagles Rosa Luxembourg and Karl Liebknecht, united for ever with that of Lenin, is normally a quite dull affair. The countless political groups line up their forces and measures their relative strength. One have to be somewhat creative to spice up the show. The most exciting thing normally is the obligatory police-assault on the folks carrying symbols of the Kurdish nationalist movement. This year the German State decided to shuffle the deck. In this “modern times” an unprecedented attack on the demonstration, a full-blown assault was launched. The offspring of the Freikorps murderers, then as well as today under a Social-Democratic government, released their rampant fascist rage on the ones honoring the leaders of the working class. Result: more than 30 demonstrators detained, some whereabouts in this very moment are still unknown, several comrades in hospital with severe fractures, fighters tortured in the hands of the goons of the imperialist, children of the working class threatened to death by the Übermenschen. Why? Because they fought back, they hit back and the stood their ground. Cause that´s what the Reds do.

State of Emergency? Fuck you!

Police violence? Fuck you!

Assault, manhandling, torture, detention and death threats? Fuck you!

Imperialist Pigs you will reap what you sow!

With interest.

The children of the working class in this country, shoulder by shoulder with the Partisans of the Peoples War in Turkey, together with the fighters of the North and in a united front with the revolutionary movement in the FRG. When we wipe away the blood from our faces, we can truly say, it was a beautiful day.

Recently, the so-called 15-kilometer rule has come into effect in some German states for so-called corona hotspots, i.e., areas with a 7-day incidence value of 200 infections per 100,000 inhabitants. This means that people in these areas are not allowed to travel more than 15 kilometers from their place of residence. As always, exceptions to this rule are, for example, commutes to work.

In the following we want to give a short brief on the recent actions and actual developments in Peolple´s War in India led by the CPI(Maoist) and also on the apparent media campaign of the reaction.

In Freiburg-Weingarten a banner was hung remembering Oury Jalloh who was murdered in police-custody 15 years ago. The following picture was sent to us:

Protests have erupted this year in Brazil when on January 4 in Rio de Janeiros neighborhood City of God (Cidade de Deus – CDD) a family father of two was shot dead by members of the Military Police. 38-year-old worker Marcelo Guimarães was killed at around 8:30 in the morning on his way home, where he forgot his cell phone, after dropping his son at the daycare center before work.

Since the 1990s there has been a "tradition" in working class neighbourhoods in France of setting cars on fire. Especially in the years when there were fights with the police, this also became a common part of the struggle of the masses there. This year, when the bourgeoisie tried to stop the masses from fighting by imposing curfews, which also applied on New Year's Eve, again many cars were set on fire all over France. Among others in Strasbourg where dozens of cars were set on fire and clashes with the police took place, injuring many policemen and arresting 40 people, including minors.