DEM VOLKE DIENEN

On March 19, 2018, comrade Javier López Martinez, an outstanding comrade and leader of the comrades of Current Sol Rojo, who passed away in Mexico. In his honour, Communist militants in the FRG have made his fight their own! We document in the following first pictures of the action and the complete translation of the statement published by the Comrades in Mexico:

“From now on, when anyone in our ranks who has done some useful work dies, be he soldier or cook, we should have a funeral ceremony and a memorial meeting in his honour.” – Chairman Mao Tse Tung, Serve the People, 8 September 1944

With deep sorrow we inform the working class and the people of Oaxaca, Mexico and the world that a very special militant for our organization has passed away.

Hundreds of immigrants and Spanish youths protested violently on the streets of central Madrid, capital of Spain, in repudiation of the death of a 35-year-old Senegalese immigrant, which happened on 15 March. Mmame Mbage, who had been in Spain for 14 years, apparently had a heart attack due to a police chase. Demonstrators held more than four hours of protests that went throught the night of March 16, after which three bank agencies and also police vehicles were destroyed. There were burning barricades of the demonstrators through the streets. Facing the police with sticks and stones, the protest left at least 10 repression agents injured. Even by using rubber bullets the repression was not able to hold the protest and six young Spanish youth were detained.

Big demonstration of peasants

On March 6th, more than 35.000 peasants marched for 170 km from Maharashtra region to Mumbai. They reached Mumbai after 6 days bringing their demands and red flags with the hammer and sickle along the way. They were promised the fulfilment of 80% of their demands by the goverment.

In March 14 at 21 o’clock the city counselor Marielle Franco (PSOL)¹ was murdered by four shots when going back home from the city center. Also the driver, Anderson Pedro Gomes, was murdered by three shots and her assistant was wounded in the occasion where a car stopped at the side of their vehicle and made 13 shots. According to the initial investigations there was no sign of robbery or reaction by the victims. The murderers were in two cars and were chasing Marielle`s car for at least 4 kilometers.

23 years ago, during the so-called “Gazi Mahallesi olayları”(Gazi Quarter riots) in March 1995, 18 people that fought against the reactionary Turkish state were murdered and hundreds more were injured by the reactionary forces. The riots in the working-class quarter started because of a provocative gunned attack on several cafes at the same time and lasted for 3 days with actions in several places in Istanbul and Ankara. The protests reached its climax when tens of thousands fought fierce battles with the armed, reactionary forces at a police station in the Gazi quarter, Istanbul.

We publish some impressions from actions done on the 8^th of march.

Today we received a mail of a comrade sharing his enthusiasm about a new magazine called "Rote Post" ("Red Post") that we like to share:

"I was very happy to see, walking in the streets of Hamburg, some young workers selling this new monthly magazine called the Red Post directly to the people passing by. As a foreigner it is very good to have, in a few pages, a synthesis on how the working class lives in Germany. What are its most felt economical demands in the cities of this country? Articles on housing, public transportation, the addictions that afflict the workers, its national and international sections, as well as culture and women specific aspects of life and struggle explain the situation well. The magazine is still fresh, in its second issue, but has a lot of potential and the people need a magazine which speaks for them, which represent their demands, which they can call their own. The magazine helps to understand that even in an imperialist country like Germany the people get exploited for the big capitalists to get maximum profits of everything. Many immigrants are part of the population of these cities, having an international section not only is important to link that the situation of the working class is similar and related in different countries. It is an international class and to unite in the same struggle is a necessity. Congratulations to the authors and editors of the magazine, keep up the good work. You got an enthusiastic supporter and for sure I will bring this magazine, and the idea, to my country! The comrades also said the mail in their magazine, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., can be used to order copies, which I can only recommend, and will help me improve my German from abroad."

Yesterday, 2000 people went out on Hamburgs streets, marching in the demonstration „United we stand“. Amongst them, also the comrades of the League Against Imperialist Aggression, who took part with a strong contingent. The demonstration was organized to denounce the reactionary manhunt following the G20 summit and was called for also in reference to the „Day of the political prisoners“, which the German Red Aid celebrates annually on the 18th of March.