DEM VOLKE DIENEN

In Izmir there was a strong earthquake last week, in which according to Turkish media nearly 100 people died and about 1000 others were injured. In each case after the regular earthquakes in Turkey the so-called earthquake tax is again in discussion. The "earthquake tax" is originally called "special communication tax" and raises the costs of cell phone calls, radio and television programs. It was originally raised in 1999 to repair the damage caused by the Marmara earthquake, and has been continuously expanded since 2003. According to the Ministry of Finance, the tax has raised the equivalent of USD 36.9 billion in the past 20 years.

We hereby publish a preliminary and unofficial translation of a statement of the Comunist Party of Ecuador:

COMRADE JOSELO: IN THE HEARTS AND STRUGGLES OF THE CLASS AND THE OPPRESSED PEOPLES OF THE WORLD!

Proletarians of all countries, unite!

We hereby report on some developments in the political situation and the class struggle in the various Nordic Countries.

Norway:
The comrades at Tjen Folket Media reports that posters honoring the fallen comrades from the TKP/ML, have been spotted in Kristiansand.

Sweden:

The comrades from The Communist League in Sweden reports that posters have been spotted in Stockholm, which call for solidarity with the League of Poor Peasants (LCP).

Finland:

The comrades at Punalippu (Red Flag) have made a commentary on the current inter-imperialist contradictions in the Nordic Countries and the increased armament of Sweden, Norway and Finland, there is now a English translation, which can be read here. 

Also they post an article on the current chauvinist campaign, headed by French Imperialism, with the unquestioning support of the reactionary bourgeois French press, against immigrant masses, mainly aimed at oppressed peoples from West-Asia, and how these attacks try to make Imperialism seem justified, and trying to paint the rebellion against (principally French) Imperialism as unjustified.

Denmark:

Currently the Imperialists are struggling on the issue of increasing the military budget and further strengthening the military capacity, after a report from NATO’s meeting with Defense Ministers from the 22. and 23. of October, criticized the military priorities of Denmark to be “misaligned” with NATO’s strategic plans (principally the plans of Yankee-Imperialism)

The report concludes:
“Allied   Defence   Ministers   agreed   that   Denmark   should   give   priority   to   the development of: a heavy infantry brigade, including associated CS (Combat support, Ed.) and CSS (Combat service support, Ed.) elements; JISR (Joint intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, Ed.) capabilities;  and  ASW (Anti-submarine warfare, Ed.) capabilities. The  lack  of  progress  since  the  previous  Capability Review is of concern.  These developments lead to the conclusion that the Danish and the NATO defence planning priorities are misaligned. Denmark needs to fully implement all of its NATO Capability Targets, in full and on time, with a special emphasis and urgency on all three of the prioritised capabilities.  Until it does so, other Allies may potentially have to pick up part of Denmark’s fair share of the Alliance burden.”

Defense Minister Trine Bramsen rejects the criticism as “politics” (which is already obvious to everyone), and puts forwards that the review, does not fully put into account the contributions of Danish Imperialism in the Arctic, and that the military forms on Greenland (mostly reconnaissance) are sufficient.

It is clear that the old military tactics of Denmark are becoming insufficient for the evermore rotting Imperialists, and soon changes will have to be made to ensure the continuation of Danish Imperialism’s dependency on exploiting the peoples of world.

There is a new international Website:

Communist International

International Comunista

which we like to make our readers aware of.

Time and again, important protests and disputes take place in Turkey in the countryside, which receive little attention from the outside. In a village in Ordu Province in northern Turkey, resistance by the inhabitants against drilling for mining activities has been going on for a long time. In the morning hours of October 28, the village was again occupied by gendarmerie units to ensure drilling operations.

In October, a large number of solidarity actions were carried out in France for the political prisoner Georges Ibrahim Abdallah. Georges Abdallah is a revolutionary from Lebanon and has been a prisoner of French reaction since 1984. Here we want to give a brief overview of the actions.

We hereby report on some developments in the political situation and the class struggle in the various Nordic Countries.

Sweden:

The Communist League in Sweden reports that revolutionaries from Gothenburg have made several good actions, in solidarity with the League of Poor Peasants (LCP).
On the webpage Aktion Proletär it is written:

“Proletarian Action Gothenburg stands behind The League of Poor Peasants (LCP) and the 600 families that on the 10. of October, were evacuated from their land by the military police. The Brazilian state increases its offensive against the growing revolutionary movement, but they are condemned to lose. The masses have nothing to gain from the old state, but everything to win in their fight for their rights, in the city as well as the countryside.
It is the victories that the peasants are winning, such as the newly founded camp Acampamento Manoel Ribeiro, that make the reactionaries desperate. The last attack demands solidarity with all the revolutionaries and fighting people of the world, but it is also a sign that the masses of the LCP and Brazil are on the right path in their struggle.”

It is inspiring to see the enthusiasm and initiative of the revolutionaries developing in Gothenburg.

Norway:

Tjen Folket Media reports  that that actions have been made in Trondheim and Stavanger against the extradition of Irish political prisoner Liam Campbell, who has been falsely charged for crimes in Lithuania.
Aditionally they report that a banner was hung in Bergen with the slogan Long live CPI (Maoist)

Finland:
Punalippu (Red Flag) reports that stickers have been spotted in Tampere, in solidarity with the martyrs of the TKP/ML.

We share a video from Austria in solidarity with the struggle of the Poor Peasants League in Brasil: