DEM VOLKE DIENEN

We publish an inofficial translation of a declaration by the Current Red Sun - Oaxaca:

To the working class and the peoples
To democratic and revolutionary organizations
To the democratic magisterium agglutinated to the CNTE¹ and classist unions

On the 12th of December, comrade Del, José Adeilton died in the age of 55 due to a cardiac arrest. He died in the Revolutionary Area Renato Natan, in Messias, in the braszilian state Alagoas. The comrade had a severe impairment as a result of an enlarged heart and the risk of a sudden death was very high. We translate excerpts of the Declaration of the League of Poor Peasants of the Northeast (LCP-NE) on him:

Del faced his health condition with great courage and the possibility of the transplant with extreme valor. He decided to wait at home to be able to continue fulfilling his revolutionary tasks. He devoted his last hours to the Agrarian Revolution. In the People's Assembly last Sunday, he showed brilliant energy. He decided to walk from his home to the headquarters of the CDRA, a distance of 2 km. In the Assembly, he made a long intervention of more than 2 hours highlighting the tasks that were to be completed, particularly the completion of the construction of the flour mill, also agitated the need to increase the union of the people and to fight the pedants. He finally summoned everyone to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Great Socialist Revolution of October, scheduled for 23/12, which will now also be celebrated in his honor.

On the 15^th of December, up to 19 Members of the Revolutionary Writers’ Association (Virasam) were taken into preventive custody by the indian police. This happened shortly before a protest of Virasam against the World Telugu Conference should take place. The Chairman of Virasam, Varavara Rao, who also was detained, told the reactionary indian press: "The State government is organising the conference to promote Bhramnical ideology and encouraging capitalists. These policies will have a bad impact on modern poets and budding writers".

In the evening of the same day, all mentioned Members were released from preventive custody.

We publish this letter written by Kobad Ghandy regarding his renewed arrest by the Police of Jharkhand:

After being acquitted in all cases and spending eight years and three months in jail, when I, Kobad Ghandy was finally released from jail, I was re-arrested by the Jharkhand Police just three days after release. On Dec 16, 2017, I was attending the Achempet Court (near Hyderabad), the Jharkhand, accompanied by the APSIB (Andhra Pradesh State Intelligence Bureau) arrested me and took me by flight to Ranchi.

For the first time in the 161 years of existence of the company the employees of Gasco went on strike, starting the 7th of December. After the companies refusal to move any inch closer the workers demands in the collective bargaining process and the dismissal of 30 employees to intimidate them, the overwhelming majority laid down their work last week.

We publish this inofficial french translation of the declaration by the TKP/ML:

Déclaration de notre Parti, le Parti communiste de Turquie / marxiste-léniniste

Au sujet de la position adoptée au regard du Mouvement Révolutionnaire Uni des Peuples ; à l'attention des organisations et Partis internationaux frères et amis.

Le 24 mars 2016, le Bureau international (BI) de notre Parti publiait une déclaration intitulée "Aux organisations et Partis internationaux frères et amis". Cette déclaration portait sur le Mouvement Révolutionnaire Uni des Peuples (HBDH – Halkların Birleşik Devrim Hareketi), dont la création venait d'être annoncée le 12 mars 2016. Notre Parti étant au nombre des signataires de cette nouvelle structure, le BI avait l'obligation d'accomplir cette tâche.

À la suite de l'annonce publique de la création de cette structure, et que nous étions l'un des Partis la composant, notre Parti s'est trouvé face à une série de tâches consistant à en comprendre correctement le caractère et le contenu. Nous voulons spécifier ici que notre participation à cette structure est le résultat d'un acte décisionnel qui a outrepassé l'autorité de notre organisation.

Lorsque notre Parti a réalisé pleinement le contenu du programme et de la déclaration fondatrice du HBDH, une discussion interne a été initiée. La discussion a porté sur divers points incluant l'outrepassement de l'autorité organisationnelle et le programme de la nouvelle formation. Comme vous pourrez le voir dans la déclaration qui va suivre, une grande partie du programme et de la déclaration fondatrice du HBDH n'est pas en accord avec les options programmatiques, les principes fondamentaux et la ligne politique de notre Parti.

Selon nous, le caractère de cette structure excède celui d'une coordination d'action conjointe. Au regard de la globalité de son programme, de ses objectifs et buts, elle revêt le caractère d'une organisation de type front.

Demonstration during the Pedagogy students meeting in Petrolina, Northeast of Brazil

The struggle for Education in Brazil is getting sharper, on December 7, in a public hearing in Brasilia, students participated in order to denounce the pedagogue profession regulation sham (the draft bill 6847/17). This draft does not solve the wage issue, does not promote the profession, removes the autonomy in class practice, does not recognize the scientific character of the pedagogy course – change the formation paradigms into “class givers” following the World Bank booklets. The masteries student representing the National Executive of the Pedagogy Students (ExNEPe) denounced that the pedagogue profession is being considered a threat to society and has to be strictly controlled.

We document this declaration of the Central Committee of the TKP/ML:

OUR PARTY’S ULTIMATE ACTION AND EVALUATION TOWARDS RIGHT LIQUIDATIONIST GROUP WHO LEFT OUR PARTY

To inform the public and to underline our orientation by making “a final statement” in reference to the emerging developments in our party and the dissidence have shown itself as a need. Because, we consider it significant from the point of canalising our party to the class struggle duties in addition to the complete information for dissidence. We are going to evaluate the entire process by identifying its milestones and its main lines, which are reflected in public opinion and not. We are going to express our perspective for: what do the emerging developments mean and what do they tell to the party public opinion. Because where we stand now is a clear decomposition situation which its all fronts and lines are drawn, its organizational structure is settled and its political ideology is unveiled. In this scene, we are here to declare that how we define this leaving group in the context of political ideology, how we will relate with them and what will be our approach to them.

The Problems in our Party; the Current Factionalism; Fighting with this; Initiatives and its Consequences