DEM VOLKE DIENEN

Just in time for March 8, Foreign Minister Baerbock presented this week, together with Svenja Schule of the SPD the new, so-called "Guidelines for a Feminist Foreign Policy".

57 people were killed and hundreds injured in the train disaster in Greece last week. A disaster that is not so much a misfortune as a result of many years of austerity policies in all areas of the country. When we talk about this austerity policy, we must not forget the role of the EU and especially of German imperialism, which a little more than 10 years ago, within the framework of the EU bailout package, imposed almost unacceptable measures on Greece, under which the Greek people are becoming more and more impoverished.

Nordic Countries

A joint declaration titled:” To the streets 8th of March! For a class line in the Women’s movement!”, signed by The Struggle Committee (Norway), Anti-Imperialist League (Finland) and Anti-Imperialist Collective (Denmark), for the 8th of March. It has also been translated in the respective languages of the organisations signing the joint declaration.

In occupied Palestine, one bloody crime against the Palestinian people follows another. As reported in previous articles, the Israeli colonial state is currently intensifying and increasing immensely the violence against the national liberation movement and the Palestinian people. Recently, there have been ruthless attacks by settlers in four cities.

We publish a joint statement signed by communist organizations from Scandinavia.

Proletarians of all countries, unite!

On February 17 thousands took to the streets of Suriname's capital, Paramaribo, storming the parliament building of this 600,000 people strong former (formal) dutch colony, located North of Brazil. Protest erupted due to high living cost as prices for energy, goods and transportation exploded and the exchange rate of the currency plummeted.

On 25 February, three policemen were killed in a jungle in Sukman district, Chhattisgarh state by members of the Communist Party of India (Maoist)-led People's Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA). The policemen, who belonged to the paramilitary formation of the District Reseve Guard, had been ambushed early in the morning when they were trying to secure a construction site. Scores of anti-guerrilla forces were deployed to the district to try and fight the PLGA comrades.

While the Post is again paying out more than 2 billion euros in dividends this year, the new colleagues at the Post are only getting a few cents more than the minimum wage stipulates. At the same time, the Post pays its ten Verdi supervisory board members a total of more than one million euros per year.