DEM VOLKE DIENEN

We publish an english translation of an article of El Pueblo newspaper from Chile:

Building a collective life: Urban Community Wenewen de Collipulli

In the urban sector of Collipulli, Ninth Region, the land seizure of the Wenewen Community is located in a property owned by Víctor Anguita. El Pueblo newspaper talked with Alexis Guajardo Levio and Zacarías Guajardo Martínez, members of the community, who told us how this process of construction and struggle has been.

Yesterday, Philippine Congress with a huge majority accepted president Duertes proposal to yet again prolong the Martial Law in Mindanao that is been in place since May this year. Contradicting the previous claims that this law would serve the “War against ISIS”, he now clearly stated his intention of enacting this law in order to combat the NPA, which has significant influence on the Island.

On December 10th, the British Columbia Federation of Labour expressed their support of Comrade G.N. Saibaba who is being murdered by the indian state, writing:
"Dr. Saibaba is an indigenous rights activist who is currently imprisoned for being a leading voice defending the rights of adivasis (tribals), dalits (formerly called untouchables), and religious minorities in India. He is a person living with a physical disability and his living conditions in prison are of international concern."

In India, Comrade Kobad Ghandy has been released from prison on bail at the 12th of December. 

We publish this inofficial translation of a call of the Solidarity Committee for Indigenous Peoples (Comitê de solidariedade aos Povos Indígenas - CSPI) on recent attempt to evict natives and peasants from land they retook themselves:

Kaiowá and Guarani Natives, along with residents of the Bororo village, blocked the access road to Itaporã on a part of the Dourados road with barricades on November 24th. The protest repudiated the new eviction order sentenced by the Federal Justice to be fulfilled in 20 days. The retaken land has already completed 8 years of existence.

In the end of last month students, teachers and activists in some of Brazil's university cities took to the streets denouncing the continuous cutbacks in public education. Instead of properly funding education and providing the affordable accommodation, food or materials required, the Brazilian government, in an attempt to offload the effects of the crisis onto the teachers and students, tries to cut corners at every opportunity possible.

Following the announcement of the Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission on the 23th of November to raise the costs of electricity by 5.3% starting December, a wide range of organisations called for protest on the 30th of November. Some thousand people participated in strike activities and blockades on this day.

In November 8 the tekoha Guapoy of the Guarani Kaiowá people, in South Mato Grosso state, central region of Brazil, were notified of a repossession suit, which will be enforced with the participation of the National Force police. They are being threatened by the landlord’s paramilitary forces, strongly armed moving around the area in motorcycles. The area was retaken after the big attack made by the landlords in June 2016, which resulted in the murder of the young leader Clodiodi Aquileu and wounded many indigenous people.

On the morning of December 4th Comrade Pierre died after an accident in the Parisian metro at the 2nd of December. Comrade Pierre was founder and an important Comrade for he Maoist Communist Party of France (PCM).

The Comrades of the PCM, who fought side by side with the Comrades of the FRG, Austria, Sweden and other countries in the struggles against the G20 this year, suffered a heavy lost with this death. Our full sympathies are with the comrades, which we expect to be struggling even more determined and strong, as they write themselves in their declaration: “But thanks to what he passed to the younger generations, we have gained hope, strength, determination and an example of what it means to be an authentic communist leader, a Maoist leader: never to let go, always to be on the side of the people and the working class, to be among the masses like a fish in the water, always seeking to improve by knowing how get back to the cause when necessary, to be firm on the principles.”