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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.

Finland:

Comrades from Punalippu report that Anti-imperialists from Tampere put up posters with the slogan: ”The Interoceanic Corridor plunders and kills poor peasants and indigenous peoples in Mexico!”.

Last week, Daimler AG announced the elimination of the night shift at the Mercedes-Benz factory in Bremen and, in the process, the dismissal of 500 temporary workers.

We publish a report that was sent to us.

On April 1, a rally of the "Mietenwahnsinn-Bündnis" ("Rent Madness-Alliance") took place in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg. The occasion was the Europe-wide "Housing Action Day" and the organizers of the rally called upon people to protest "against unaffordable rents and living costs, evictions, demolitions, vacancies, displacement". About 500 people took part in the protest, according to the organizers.

The Istanbul Chamber of Commerce (ITO) stated that inflation in Turkey continued to skyrocket last month of March. According to official data, inflation increased by 2.95 per cent compared to the previous month. The ITO published the results of the so-called Istanbul Wage and Living Index, which measures price increases in the retail sector. According to the said index, the increase in inflation compared to March 2022 is a whopping 73.02 per cent. The wholesale price index, which reflects price trends in the wholesale sector, rose by another 4.96 per cent last month. Over the past 12 months, the wholesale price index has increased by 74.22 per cent.

The comrades of Rote Presse have informed us that issue 61 of the Rote Post is online. Furthermore, they have also informed us that after the latest issue reaches them, they will publish the respective previous issue. The latest updated issue can be found here.