DEM VOLKE DIENEN

On April 7, Red Herald published an article on the current call of the TKP/ML calling for the boycott of the upcoming elections in Turkey with translated excerpts for the statement. We henceforth mirror the publication made on the website.

The bourgeois media keep chanting about the untenable conditions in Bremen's youth welfare offices. The staff complain about the massive workload and fear serious consequences. Seventeen years ago, the conditions led to a child being found beaten to death and repeatedly abused in a refrigerator in a working-class area of Bremen - Gröpelingen - because the cops and authorities kept looking away (Kevin case).

Bremen's parliamentary elections are just ahead, and just in time for them, the red-green-red federal government has now introduced a new draft law. This draft provides that, in the future, students entitled to vote will be able to cast their ballots in their respective schools one week before the official election day. To this end, a huge logistical and financial effort is to be made to move voting documents, booths, ballot boxes and, of course, government supervision into the schools in order to integrate the election into the students' everyday lives and to make the hurdle for students to cast their ballot as low as possible. Other eligible voters should also be allowed to take advantage of the early voting option.

In France, fierce struggles and mass mobilizations of the working class and the people are currently taking place against the pension "reform" imposed by President Macron by decree. This "reform" is intended to force the masses in France to work two years longer and to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64.

We publish an unofficial translation of an article written by the comrades of Sol Rojista from Mexico.

This coming 10 April marks the 104th anniversary of the assassination of General Emiliano Zapata, and as the peasant and indigenous movement has declared more than once: the programme of the agrarian revolution is still valid! In commemoration, different agrarian movements in different parts of the country have called for mobilisations, some of which have a clear class content and are directed against the militarisation of the country and the imposition of imperialist mega-projects of dispossession and death. In the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, the Union of Indigenous Communities of the Northern Zone of the Isthmus (UCIZONI) and the Committee for the Defence of the Land of the Popular Current of the Red Sun (CP-Sol Rojo) are calling for mobilisations that include the occupation of offices, the blockade of highways and some marches in different parts of the region. These protests will be joined by other organisations and communities participating in the network of civil resistance against CFE's high tariffs, as well as communities that continue to resist the wind farms and others currently affected by the Interoceanic Corridor. The convening organisations and communities express solidarity with the communities of Mogoñé Viejo, San Juan Guichicovi, and Santa Cruz Tagolaba and Rincón Tagolaba, Tehuantepec, which are under siege by the Mexican Navy and paramilitary groups. Demonstrators are also demanding justice for Luis Armando Fuentes Aquino, affectionately known as "Comandante Gato" by fishermen and poor peasants, who was killed by paramilitaries in San Francisco Ixhuatán on 11 April 2019.

Stop the militarisation of the Isthmus!

Jail for the mercenary "Tacho Canasta" and his brother "Sergio Canalla"!

#JusticiaParaLuisArmando

Baden-Württemberg is planning to create five new judicial positions and to set up a new Stastsschutzsenat. The Minister of the Interior, Marion Gentges (CDU), justifies this current development with the increasing number of trials against so-called Reichsbürger, which would overburden the judicial system. She is supported in this not only by the governing parties, the CDU and the Greens, but also by the opposition.

We share a video, which was sent to us by sympathisers of the International Communist League.

In the Indian state of Jharkhand, the People's Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA), led by the Communist Party of India (Maoist), carried out an operation on 30 March to raid a warehouse of a private company that manufactures explosives for mining in the region. In the night action, carried out by around 30 militants, the security guards of the warehouse were first neutralised. A large quantity of explosives and a total of about 7000 detonators were then confiscated.