More than a third of students in Germany were threatened by poverty last year. The Federal Statistical Office in Wiesbaden reports a share of 37.9 percent for this population group. According to the report, students living alone or in shared flats are particularly at risk. Of these, 76.1 per cent, or three quarters, were at risk of poverty.

Last week it was confirmed once again that the Irish freedom struggle is far from being "pacified" as a bomb exploded near an police patrol.

On 17 November 2022, thousands demonstrated in the streets of the Greek capital Athens and in numerous other cities to commemorate the 49th anniversary of the student uprising against the military regime in 1973. The demonstrators marched through the city centre towards the US embassy, chanting slogans such as "The people dont want you!" and demanding the withdrawal of US troops from Greece. Greece was then, as it is now, an important base for the US army. Among the Greek people, however, the Yankee troops repeatedly meet with pure hatred, which is expressed again and again in large demonstrations all over the country. The most recent demonstration was in the spring of this year when it was decided to station more military equipment in Greece.

In order to better follow the changes in Brazil caused, among other things, by the presidential election farce in which the Pelegão [corrupt official] Luis Inacío (candidate of the PT- Partido dos Trabalhadores, an opportunist party) narrowly won in the second round, we publish an unofficial translation of the weekly editorial of the newspaper A NOVADEMOCRACIA that was sent to us:

We share an article from the comrades of Socialistisk Revolution.

With the conclusion of the bourgeois parliamentary elections, it seems that the turn out was in favour of the Social Democrats, who now wishes to seek a government “across the middle”. What can we expect of this new government? The function of a new government like this will be the centralisation of power in favour of the executive branch of the state and even greater power to already the most powerful prime minister seen since the fascist occupation of 1940. The centralisation of power in the executive branch is something typically seen once a country starts to militarise, which is something the former government did and that the upcoming government for sure will continue to do. Our class can expect nothing positive from this new government. These representatives of the bourgeoisie will continue on with the greatest militarisation of the country seen since the Second World War, preparing to unleash new imperialist wars, whilst letting the oppressed countries, the people’s of the world and the proletariat of Denmark carry the cost of the militarisation and the crisis.

Upcoming Friday, November 18, the Communist Party of India (Maoist) has annouced a bandh, a strike flanked by militant actions, to take place in two districts of Odisha, Koraput and Malkangiri. The call of the CPI (Maoist) comes after two reporters have been shot dead by "Security Forces" in service of the reactionary Indian State.

In recent weeks, there has again been heavy fighting in the Israeli occupied territories of the West Bank. Palestinians again fought with stones against the tanks of the Israeli armed forces. The city of Nablus in the northern West Bank is a particular focus of the fighting.

Norway

On November 4th revolutionary activists marked the 99th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of Norway, Before the markation posters were put up around Oslo with the slogans ”Long live Maoism! Down with revisionism!” and ”NKP 99 years – Reconstitute the Communist Party of Norway!”.