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We hereby publish an inofficial and preliminary translation of a very important article on the peasants struggle in Brazil published by A Nova Democracia:

Below, we reproduce an article from the Resistance Peasant portal about the capture of the last lands of Santa Elina that occurred 25 years after the historic Battle of Corumbiara.

In the early hours of August 16, dozens of peasant families led by the League of Poor Peasants of Rondônia and Western Amazonia took the latifundio Nossa Senhora, the last part of the old Santa Elina farm that was still in the hands of landowners. These are lands where the Heroic Peasant Resistance of Corumbiara occurred 25 years ago.

In homage to Luis Armando, better known as “Commandante Gato”, a new Communal Culture Center was opened up recently in this hometown of Cerro Grande, located in the East of Oaxaca, Mexico. There, “Comandante Gato” participated in many struggles of the indigenous people in the Istmo de Tehuantepec region, was part of the organizing of the People’s Self-defense and led struggles such as those of the fisherman. On April 11, 2019, he was assassinated in anambush of paramilitaries while he was on his way back to Cerro Grande.

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.