DEM VOLKE DIENEN

Against the Holiday of German imperialism, October 3rd, the “League against the State of Emergency and the Police State” mobilized this year to a demonstration in Hamburg. The demonstration was against police state tendencies that have been developing particularly in the last months of the “Corona State of Emergency”. To protest, about 300 people gathered in front of the Rote Flora on that day.

The Secours Rouge Geneve sent their solidarity to the revolutionary movement in Germany. There action related to the police actions against Roter Aufbau as well as to the repression in Berlin.

Since 20th September 2020, a lot of protests and riots started in Madrid. Especially in South Madrid, the masses took the streets for their protest. The reason for all of this are new Covid19 legislation, restricting movement particularly in the proletarian neighbourhoods. Rich quarters are not affected

In Freiburg, racist police checks have repeatedly occurred in recent months, with the cops repeatedly using excessive force when those affected resisted. At the beginning of August, a man was checked by the police after he had taken his son to the daycare center.

After the yellow vest protests started again in France and the masses took to the streets fighting against the bourgeois state and its state of emergency, the French police now want to bring new guns to bear. For years the police used armoured vehicles, which had been in use since the 1970s and recently even more so. These were suitable, for example, for clearing barricades. However, as they were getting on in years and the market did not offer anything that met the requirements, they were renovated and old army stocks were used. A very expensive affair, the renovation, which only prolongs the operational capability by 10 years, costs around 300,000 Euros, but a new acquisition "only" 700,00 Euros. Now, within the framework of the new finance law 2021, which still has to be passed by parliament, it has been decided that the budget for the mission "Security“ will be increased by one billion euros to 13.9 billion euros. This will allow the mobile police to buy 89 new armoured vehicles for about 65 million euro. By 2030, the number of light armoured police vehicles will be increased to almost 1000.

Apart from new vehicles that meet today's requirements, the police in France also like to use so-called LBDs, rubber bullets, which among other things caused the death of one person in 2010. While the police want to get rid of disruptive demonstrators with their tanks, resistance to their weapons is prohibited, however, a "violent gesture", as a yellow vest protestor recently experienced. After a cop aimed his LBD at him at close range and the protestor quickly pushed the gun away, he was now sentenced to six months in prison and a fine of 250 Euros. Militarisation is advancing in France and anyone who resists is condemned.

Turkish police have again arrested two suspected "high-ranking" members of the DHKP-C (Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front) in Istanbul. This continues the Turkish state's offensive against the various revolutionary forces. An EU report with Europol data of 23rd of June had more strongly emphasized the "terror threat" posed by the DHKP-C among others and underlined that Europe was the logistic base, e.g. for smuggling weapons.

The friends of SOLROJISTA published the following article on actions regarding the 6th anniversary of the forced disappearance of 43 students, which is here translated perliminary and inofficial:

On the sixth anniversary of the forced disappearance of the 43 normal students of Ayotzinapa, various popular organisations have taken to the streets demanding truth and justice throughout the country.

Collection of antifascist Hip Hop from Brasil: