DEM VOLKE DIENEN

In the FRG there is a problem with a lack of manpower, which is also permanently emphasized by bourgeois politicians. One of many areas where this problem is particularly drastic is, in addition to the health sector and schools, the day care centers. In Germany the new kindergarten year starts on 01 August, which means that many new children will enter the day care centers. In North Rhine-Westphalia alone, 760,619 new children will be cared for in daycare centers or by child minders. However, many parents and guardians are still desperately looking for daycare places. According to a study by the Bertelsmann Foundation, there is a shortage of 100,000 daycare places in North Rhine-Westphalia alone.

In Villingen Schwenningen on the first of July there were major clashes between young people and security forces during a city festival. The peculiarity here is that both the city and the police reported about it to the public for the first time last week, more than three weeks after the events.

In July, there were again several reports of new attacks and armed propaganda actions by the Communist Party of India (Maoist)-led People's Liberation Guerrilla Army on forces of the old Indian state, construction companies and police informers.

In the last few days, a number of stancils with the slogan „Support the arrested revolutionaries and rebels in France! It is right to rebel!“ were placed in the working-class district of Bebelhof in Braunschweig. In the following we document some of the received pictures:

Never before has a Women's Football World Cup attracted so much attention as the current one in Australia and New Zealand. The first tournament with 32 national teams is well on its way to becoming the sporting event of the year in Germany; already last year, the European Championship final of the DFB women against England was the most watched TV event of the year with 18 million viewers. The jerseys are already all sold out, and the DFB team's 6-0 opening victory over Morocco was watched by 5.61 million viewers on TV.

There is another wildcat strike at the Gräfenhausen freeway service station. As we have already reported in three different articles, around 60 truck drivers went on strike in mid-March at the Gräfenhausen freeway service station in southern Hessen to demand payment of their unpaid wages. The truck drivers, most of whom come from Georgia and Uzbekistan and were employed by the Polish Mazur Group, which operates several transport companies, were systematically deprived of their wages. In some cases, this involved wage theft amounting to 4000 euros. The Mazur group of Companies is known to drive among other things also orders for large monopoly corporations such as Siemens or Ikea.

We have received messages from Bochum and Essen with actions that have been carried out. In solidarity with those revolutionaries and rebels in France who now have to pay the price for their just struggle with arrests and jail, a mural and a painting were put up in these cities, which we document below:

n the next year the value added tax for meals should rise on 19 percent. This increasing of the tax hits mainly the gastronomy and the petit bourgeois in this field. The german hotel and restaurant association (DEHOGA) worries about big consequences, after a survey in the sector.