DEM VOLKE DIENEN

We hereby report on some developments of the revolutionary movement and the class struggle in general in the Nordic Countries during the past weeks.

We have already reported on the series of fascists attacks in Neukölln, including that the solving of the attacks obiviosly was hindered by the police and justice system.

Tens of thousands of protesters are taking to the streets in Belarus to fight against government election fraud.

On July 2, the police carried out  9 house searches in the state of Baden-Württemberg. A DNA sample was then taken from almost all affected. Most of the affected have been released since then, but the anti-fascist Jo is still in jail in Stammheim. The cops use a confrontation between anti-fascists and activists of the fascist pseudo-union "Zentrum Automobil" as a pretext. This right-wing association is home to members of the terrorist Blood & Honor network, the Identitarian Movement and AfD, as well as supporters of the NSU.
JoThe above-mentioned attack was carried out on the fringes of one of the so-called "hygiene demonstrations"  in Stuttgart. Thousands of people had gathered here under the name “Querdenken 711” to demonstrate against the so-called “Corona restrictions”. The organizer did not bother to draw a line of demarcation towards the right and so from the beginning organized Nazis and members of the AfD and the Identitarian Movement were an integral part of these demonstrations. Therefore, anti-fascist protests were developed that consisted of several forms of action; Educational work such as distributing leaflets, posting posters, but also targeted attacks against fascists.
It is obvious that the above-mentioned confrontation only serves as a pretext for the arbitrary criminalization of anti-fascism. Proceedings are still being conducted against people who were demonstrably not at the scene of the incident. Although the public prosecutor's office has meanwhile had to admit the innocence of a defendant, the proceedings against him are continuing. The reason for this? In the past he has researched, among other things, the new police law in Baden-Württemberg and fascist terror networks in the state apparatus. The police almost exclusively seized usb-disks in his apartment. This is certainly not a coincidence, which he himself also expressed in an interview
The anti-fascist struggle is justified and necessary everywhere. It should therefore be self-evident for every anti-fascist, revolutionary and generally every progressive person to show solidarity with all accused anti-fascists. The house searches carried out are a state attack on the anti-fascist movement and an expression of a reactionary campaign by the German state, which, in view of the worsening economic crisis, has ever greater problems in keeping the resistance of the masses in check.

They targeted some, they meant us all.

After the explosion in the Lebanese capital Beirut on Tuesday, 4^th ofAugust, more than 150 people died and more than 5000 persons were injured, France's president Macron visited the country as the first. He promised financial support. But not without conditions. Macron would be committed to help the people in Lebanon, it would be an historical responsibility. Therefore he dictates what he demands from the Lebanese government: There has tobe a general political change. Further the corruption has to be fought by the government. An energy reform has to be enforced as well as the lack of transparency in the banking system has to be fought. France always stood side by side with Lebanon, he announced.

This Monday Turkey once again sent a research vessel, the "Oruc Reis", to investigate the seabed for natural gas deposits in the eastern Mediterranean. According to an agreement between Greece and Egypt from last week on the affected sea area, Turkey has no rights there. This agreement defines a territory in which both states have an "Exclusive Economic Zone" (EEZ) off their own coasts, in which they have control over the resources in the sea. According to the agreement, the area navigated by the Turkish research vessel is part of the Greek zone.

Hany Babu Musaliyarveettil Tharayil, an associate professor in the Department of English of Dehli University, has recently been arrested and is now in judical custody until at least the 21th of August.

In Peru, the struggles of the class conscious teachers within the SUTEP to isolate opportunist and state-conciliatory positions manifested in two calls to debate how to approach this matter. In their call, the Teachers' Youth Committee states:

We must fight to take the leadership within the trade union, taking up the reorientation and reconstruction of the basis and isolate the opportunist and electoral constraint of the Patria Roja and expose the revisionists and opportunists of FENATEP, with Castillo Terrones at the helm,, who took the lead in the historic strike of 2017 by betraying it for the promise of recognition of their FENATAP by the government, followed by the 2018 strike where they again betrayed the Peruvian teachers.

We must call attention to the teachers from the class who do not want to take over the leadership of the trade union, enough of this hesitation. We reaffirm the principles of class-based trade-unionism to overcome the present moment that our union, the Sutep, is going through.

In Chile, the hunger strike of the political prisoners of the Mapuche in Angol, Temuco and Lebu prisons is continuing, breaking the 80 day threshold. While their health situation becomes worse day by day the solidarity campaign to support their struggle has reached new heights.

At several points, roadblocks were erected by armed detachments. In the morning of July 27, families and members of the villages took over the public buildings in all the municipalities of the province of Malleco, in addition to the municipality of Temuco. At the same time marches and broad variety of forms of actions are developing.

Two days ago, the 25th anniversary of the Heroic Resistance of the Peasantry of Corumbiara, Brazil, was celebrated by the League of Poor Peasants. On August 9, 1995, the old Brazilian state, in collusion with the big landowners, attempted to commit a massacre on the 600 families living in the former Santa Elina ranch. However, they delusion of having an easy time assaulting the peasants were shattered, when they organized fierce resistances and engage the reactionary forces in what became known as the Battle of Santa Elina. More then 11 peasants were murdered over two hundred wounded by bullets or scarred psychologically by this attack. Several disappeared. That this number has not been greater is only due to the strong resistance organized despite being outgunned.

About 20 activists from various parts of Rondonia- students, lawyers and peasants -  gathered this Sunday, to commemorate those who died that day and to denounce that the murderers and torturers still go unpunished with no compensation given to the families either.

A new call denouncing the electoral farce as well as its candidates and calling for combative actions has been issued by the comrades in Ecuador. Under the slogan "Don't Vote, Prepare People's War" they state:

- Generate awareness that the only thing we will have with this elections, in addition to contributing to the consolidation of the old democracy, that the only thing we will achieve, is to place a group of miserables in the government who will be in charge of playing, trafficking and negotiating with pain, hunger, misery and suffering of the great majority. [...]

- Militarization of the organizations of peasants, workers and other masses. Militarize actions against elections and their actors.

- Forced blockades. Prevent the free movement of all the actors that promote the elections. Interrupt the process with combative blockades.

People of Ecuador: It is not enough to announce or to call NOT TO VOTE, it is important to develop actions that promote the BOYCOTT OF ELECTIONS. If we move ideas, let it be to trigger action, transformation.

With unemployment in the Colombia reaching 21.4% in May due to the crisis, particularly impacting the 47% of the population working in the so-called informal sector, many families can’t afford their rent no more. Hence, hundreds of families occupied previously unused land in Soacha, a municipality located south of the city of Bogotá. However, on June 25, notorious riot police ESMAD forcefully evicted the settlement of 800 families, killing a 15-year-old boy, Duván Mateo Aldana. Because their situation remains unsolved hundreds on July 6 took to the streets, blocking the central highway leading to Bogota.