DEM VOLKE DIENEN

Current production figures show that since the beginning of the cyclical economic crisis of German imperialism in 2019, the major German automobile monopolies VW, Audi, BMW and Mercedes have produced a good half a million fewer passenger cars on their home continent from January to May 2023 than in the same period of 2019. This corresponds to a decrease of almost 20 percent over a period of four years. Mercedes is hitted particularly hard with a decline of around 30 percent.

In 2021 and 2022, reports by the WDR (West German Broadcasting) background magazine Sport inside revealed the conditions for coaches in many junior training centres of Bundesliga football clubs. Where the great talents are being groomed to become the stars of tomorrow, a system has taken hold in large parts of Germany that allows mini-jobbers to work for up to three times the time stipulated in their contracts.

"It is right to rebel!"

We hereby share images from graffiti in Bremen that have been sent to us.

Last Saturday, July 15, according to various sources, up to 600 people gathered in Herford in North Rhine-Westphalia to take to the streets against police violence and racism. The demonstration was prompted by an incident on June 3 this year in which 19-year-old Bilel was stopped by the police for driving without lights and in the course of the check was attacked by the cops with 34 shots. Six bullets hit Bilel directly, who in the aftermath was in danger of his life and has since suffered paraplegia.

The health insurance funds in Germany are again facing a deficit of billions of euros for the year 2024. Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) recently stated that the insured should be prepared for rising contributions.

The Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Family Affairs and the Federal Criminal Police Office (Bundeskriminalamt) presented a situational picture on domestic violence in Berlin this week, according to which the number of cases of domestic violence rose by a full 8.5 percent in 2022 compared to the previous year

In the FRG, one racist smear campaign follows the next. Until spring of this year, the debate was about the lack of assimilation of the rebelling masses after the New Year's Eve clashes. Only recently, even in the Bundestag, a debate was convened to discuss the uprising of the proletarian, often migrant youth in the French banlieues and to warn of future mass uprisings in Germany, which parts of the German bourgeoisie fear, especially by the migrant masses. Now it goes on with the alleged lack of security in German outdoor swimming pools.

Every thirteen seconds a child under the age of five dies as a result of starvation.