On November 24, Thousands of workers and youths violently protested in the capital of the country, Port-au-Prince, demanding punishment for the corrupt and against the situation of the country. They also demanded the resignation of the current semi-colonial president, Jovenel Moise. This was the sixth consecutive day of protests.

Since some months comrades of the People’s Revolutionary Defense Units in Los Angeles develop work with the mostly immigrant street vendors around Exposition Park in the south of the city. In the past, time and again arbitrary attacks and harassment occurred there through the hands of the Integration and Customs Enforcement – ICE, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (responsible for example for detaining and returning of supposedly "illegal" workers) and the Cops. After the most recent attacks against the streets vendors and especially the detention of a activist for the struggle against the harassment a number of actions were carried out in solidarity.

Close to a hundred street vendors, mostly with Mexican background, work and sell their wares around the area close to the stadium and the university in LA that is called Exposition Park. In the past years, cops and other bodies of administration frequently carried out raids, confiscations, arrests and other racist assaults against the masses working there. Hence, since some month comrades there organize the People’s Revolutionary Defense Units, or Unidades de Defensa Populares Revolucionarias – UDPR, among the masses working there. Since then, the agencies and cops were prevented to take carts and wares of those working there and to arrest vendors. Especially through organizing solidarity among one-another and through political mobilization, but also through masked units regularly patrolling the area, assaults could be prevented in the most recent months that led to a situation, in which the bodes of administration fear to enter the area without support.

After the targeted attack of the cops against a leading activist of the streets vendors and a sympathizer of the UDPR the week before last, that led to a arrest and charge, for she supposedly hit a pig, now a number of Dazibaos and wall paintings haven been made by activists of the UDPR to call of solidarity and further organization.

More than 80,000 workers and youths stopped France in a wave of protests against the economic measures of the Macron government on 24 November.
The protests as well as the repression were extremely violent. Police attempted to arbitrarily stop the march of thousands of people with water jets and tear gas bombs as they tried to break through a cordon of isolation that would lead to the house of the prime minister of the country.

Demonstrators – youth, proletarians and workers with petty-bourgeois living conditions – fought back repression by attacking police cars and big companies shops.

"Mr. Macron has accelerated the fall of his people since he was elected. We want a radical change or the dismissal of Macron, "said a protestor named Cynthia, a 31-year-old worker, in an interview with Portuguese news agency Público. She also denounced that he withdrew taxes "to further enrich the rich."

Five police officers and 19 protesters were injured in the end. A week earlier, November 17, more than 280,000 people took to the streets for the same reason.

THE MEASURES OF MACRON

The measures that are being applied by the government of Macron refer to increase taxation that consumes the salary of the masses while promoting tax exemption for corporations and big bourgeois.

The trigger for the protests was the fuel boom as a result of these Macron policies. What began as a multitudinous economic movement has become widespread and today calls for the Macron government to leave and harshly criticizes the entire political system, parliament and bourgeois democracy itself

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Agents of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) are invading schools in villages and giving lessons to children and young people in Jharkhand state. The villages and districts - many are considered base areas of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) - are Western Singhbhum, Tholkobad, Chhotanagra and Roam, among others. The aim of the police is to force the end of a teachers' strike that has taken place across the state since November 16.

CRPF officers - considered "specialists" in anti-Maoist operations - were summoned by the General Inspector of the Force to invade the schools and continue with the classes "until teachers return to work."

The actions of the CRPF agents seriously undermine teachers' right to strike. But, in addition to breaking the teachers' strike, the aim of the anti-Maoist forces is to raise some prestige that could compensate for the demoralization that the Force has in the region, given their intense participation in repression of peasants and tribal peoples organized by the communists.

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Yankee imperialism has been launching a series of unprecedented bombardments against Somalia for two years, under the rhetoric of "combating terrorism". Last year there were more than 31 attacks, according to what was estimated by the United States Command for Africa (Africom) in October of this year. By November 22, the British imperialism’s media The Guardian and other media announced the mark of 33 attacks.

According to The Guardian itself, the attacks represent a grave danger to the civilian population and have failed the goal of destroying the Islamic armed groups that wage armed struggle against the invading foreign forces - coordinated by Yankee imperialism, through the "African Union”.
Of the total number of attacks in 2018, 29 were directed against Al Shabaab ("Combatant Youth Movement"), an organization that, despite its reactionary ideology, has been the main force of the National Resistance.

We publish the images of the book "Away With All Pests" from Joshua Horn, an English surgeon who went to China and was a witness of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. The book is good to understand the changes that were felt by the masses during that period and an example of an intellectual who struggle to understand what it means to serve the people.

"Shortly after I started to write this book, the Cultural Revolution began and I found myself in the eye of the greatest political storm of all time.

The Cultural Revolution has often been described as a revolution which touches people to their souls."

The book is a collection of cases that the author had experienced and also some reports on the situation at the time and how the GPCR was being lived by the masses.

The author describes the developments in medicine and science, but most importantly how ideology completely changed the understanding of such activities. One of the most notable descriptions is the successful campaign to erradicate Schistosomiasis from China.

We publish an english version of an article that was published in A Nova Democracia website.

The Watson Institute for Public and International Affairs at Brown University has stated that US military spending has been $ 6 trillion since the attacks of September 11, 2001. The amount spent is so dramatic that the university report considers it a "Threat to national security" itself.

US imperialist press agencies noted that 6,900 military personnel, 21 civilians and 7,800 contractors (the term used to refer to mercenaries hired by "Private Military Companies"), all of them are from United States, dead in combat in the Wars of Afghanistan, Iraq Yemen, Libya, Somalia.

If, on the one hand, the National Resistance causes huge casualties to imperialism, the latter responds with more and more massacres.

In an article published on The Independent website, international medical organizations believe that the number of civilians killed only by the Yankee invasion of Iraq since 2003 is "greater than 1 million." In the same article, the portal accuses the US of "having no idea how many civilians it is killing in Iraq". Numbers of interventions in other countries, they warn, are even more obscure, with Brown University's study warning that the number of civilians killed in the conflict in Syria this year may "never be known."

The study also warns that it is harder to know of a number of recent victims of US imperialism in its so-called "war on terror", as little is known about what they call "indirect consequences" of Yankee interventions.

An example of the enormous scale that these "indirect consequences" can assume is Yemen. There, after the invasion of Saudi Arabia in 2016, made with Yankee support, half the population of that country south of the Arabian peninsula - 14 million people - is under starvation or malnutrition, according to a report by the Organization of American States. Nations of October 2018.

The Yankee press notes that while Trump publicly states that military spending on the Middle East was "a mistake" and "preparing a withdrawal plan," officials such as US Secretary of State Mike Pompey have already authorized expansion of the Yankee intervention in the country in civil war, according to the Yankee press, with the aim of "opposing Iran and its allies."

People in Afghanistan protesting against Yankee imperialism

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