DEM VOLKE DIENEN

On Thursday, April 11, the elections to the National Assembly in India began, lasting a total of five weeks. Before and during the elections several actions were carried out for an active election boycott under the leadership of the Communist Party of India (Maoist)

On the occasion of April 9, Day of the Heroes of the Brazilian People, we reproduce a note that was published by the AND staff in April last year.

April 9th is the Day of the Heroes of the Brazilian People. The date was thus declared by a proposal of the Revolutionary Front for the Defense of the People´s Rights (FRDDP) and assumed by the popular and democratic movements of the countryside and the city.

The chosen day is a tribute to the great revolutionary and peasant leader Renato Nathan Gonçalves Pereira. On April 9, 2012, Renato was cowardly tortured and executed in an ambush designed by henchmen serving latifundium, in collusion with the police forces of the old bourgeois-latifundium state.

The FRDDP has chosen this day to honor men and women who gave their lives and fought, resolutely and conscientiously, for the emancipation of our people and for the Revolution of a New Democracy uninterrupted to Socialism.

Besides Renato, we can mention other great examples of heroes and heroines of the Brazilian people who contributed enormously to the resumption of the revolutionary movement in Brazil. Outstanding are Cleomar Rodrigues, Élcio, Gilson, Luiz Lopes and Zé Bentão, all leaders of the LCP. In the city, the great revolutionary leader Sandra Lima - one of the founders of the FRDDP and one of the main formulators of the line of the People´s Women Movement - and the workers who had fallen in the battlefield of the Red Flag Village in 1999, in the city of Betim (metropolitan region of Belo Horizonte), as well as many others.

In a statement made in 2016, the FRDDP calls for their names to be glorified and for all revolutionary activists to arm themselves "mightily with their unfading examples." "Being more determined and resolute in giving life to our struggle and revolution is a matter of paramount importance to all and every fighter of the people, with more and more audacity, to sustain and develop them, facing and defeating the hysteria of the counterrevolution, all its truculence that we know in the history of our people and that surely, more and more, we will have to face and to overcome ".

"It is a decisive question for all revolutionaries who are determined to reject electoral opportunism and to struggle to rebuild the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist Communist Party to unleash the revolutionary armed struggle and, through the People's War, to carry out the Agrarian and Anti-imperialist Democratic Revolution, to conquer the Republic of a New Democracy, uninterruptedly going through Socialism and serving the World Revolution. ", Says the FRDDP.

On this date, thousands of revolutionary militants and communists celebrate the Day of the Heroes of the Brazilian People.

Translated from A Nova Democracia website.

Following report was received by comrades from Denmark:

On the occasion of the German imperialist occupation of Denmark, the 9th of April 1940, comrades carried out a graffiti action in Copenhagen. The action condemned both German imperialism as well as the Danish collaborators, one faction of which (as represented by the monopoly company F.L. Smidth) has its headquarters in the area where the action was carried out. This company and others collaborated openly with German imperialism and the Nazi government, even participating in the Holocaust by utilizing Jewish slave labor in Estonia, profiting enormously. With this action, the revolutionaries firmly condemn this blackest period in the history of Danish and German imperialism. Thus, the action has big significance, as its political essence is proletarian-internationalist.

Also this week, the People's Liberation Guerrilla Army under the leadership of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) has carried out several actions in the ongoing election boycott campaign and inflicted heavy losses to the old Indian state.

On March 24 elections in Ecuador took place. It have been the elections of the regional and local parliaments, the mayors and the Civic Participation Council. the high number of 11,069 representatives, including deputies have been elected. Revolutionaries from Ecuador mobilized with a broad campaign to boycott the election, which was well received by the masses.

"In the midst of the repositioning and intensification of Yankee imperialism in our countries, the crisis of bureaucratic capitalism, the disgraceful behavior of the compliant regime of Moreno and the growing bankruptcy of revisionism and opportunism in this country, we are experiencing a new election farce, which has the goal of discharging the inner-bourgeois contradictions". That is what the Front for the Defense of Popular Struggle analyzed the role of this year's local and regional elections in their call for a boycott. The campaign was developed with a series of actions and posters.

In Ecuador there is compulsory voting, but even 17% of voters did not participate in the election, and 18% voted invalid. An even more clear expression have been the actions on election day itself: In 14 polling stations, the electricity was turned off by protests. In other parts of the country, the elections had to be ended as the masses stormed the polling stations. The police were on site with military equipment. In Esmeraldas (in the north) it was possible to attack polling stations anyway!

On the 25th of March heavily armed paramilitaries breached the house off our Mexican comrade Bernardo Sánchez, who is a sympathizer of Sol Rojo, attacked him viciously and attempted to intimidate him and his family. This attack is part of a state sanctioned offensive against the people in the area of San Francisco del Mar, to force through the development plan of the Special Economic Zones despite all local resistance and to ensure the interests of European and American imperialism.