DEM VOLKE DIENEN

Last weekend, the federal party conference of the Green Party took place in Bonn. Just how far the party has strayed from its most basic promises becomes clear when one looks at the bourgeois reporting. For example, ZDF asks the question "Where have the Greens gone?".

Several times, demonstrations against the gas levy and inflation have been held by revolutionaries and masses in the proletarian district of Altendorf in Essen. The gas levy has been overturned in the meantime, but with the new proposal of the federal government, the parts of the population that can most easily afford the crisis will benefit first. Meanwhile, the deepest and broadest masses are pacified with minimal payments in an attempt to keep them quiet, even though this does not even ensure their current living conditions. Oil consumers have been completely left out of the government financing question, even though they are similarly affected in terms of heating costs as gas users within the capitalist system.

In the capital Tunis, fighting broke out between protesters and police on Saturday after the funeral of a young man who was severely injured by police in August this year and later died.

Workers at a total of six oil refineries in France have been on strike for around three weeks. In view of the massive profits of the corporations and rising inflation, they are demanding a wage increase of 10% backdated to the 1st of January this year.

We are publishing an inofficial translation of an article of ANOVADEMOCRACIA, that has been send to us:

In the last state election in Lower Saxony on Sunday, the 9th of October, the SPD emerged as the winner, if the bourgeois media have their way, even as the "clear winner".

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (CDH) is an international court formed by the American Convention on Human Rights, ratified by members of the Organization of American States (OAS).

Finland

Comrades from Punalippu report that a grafitti action has taken place in Tampere against the anti-people coercive laws approved by the Finnish parliament, which cuts off worker’s rights to trike. A mural in Tampere writes in Finnish: ”Down with the coercive laws! Power to the people!”.