DEM VOLKE DIENEN

Norway

Tuesday on May 31st Kampkomiteen in Oslo held a public meeting on the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, the role of Zelensky and why it’s right to support the Ukrainian people against Russian imperialism. The meeting was followed by an open political discussion.

Israel often forces Palestinians to demolish their own homes to make way for illegal settlements. On 12 June, a new report by the Land Research Center of the Arab Studies revealed that Israeli occupiers demolished at least 1,032 Palestinian buildings and homes in occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank in 2021. According to the report, at least 1,834 Palestinians, including 954 children, were displaced.

In the collective bargaining in the steel industry, the IG-Metall union leadership and the steel employers' association agreed on a new collective agreement on 15 June. According to the agreement, 6.5 per cent more wages will be paid as of 1 August. In addition, a one-off payment of 500 euros, or 200 euros for apprentices, will be paid. The new collective agreement, which will run for 18 months, has so far been negotiated for the states of North Rhine-Westphalia, Lower Saxony and Bremen. Here alone 68,000 workers are employed in the steel industry.

The Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK) published the inflation rate for the previous month of May at the beginning of June. According to TUIK, the increase in inflation in May was 2.98 per cent. Compared to the previous year, inflation in Turkey thus reached a value of 73.5 per cent. This is the official version told by the authorities of the Turkish state. But figures from the Inflation Research Group (ENAG) paint a different picture. According to the ENAG calculation, inflation rose by 5.46 per cent in May, bringing the year-on-year increase to 160.7 per cent.

We publish an unofficial translation of a statement by the FDLP-EC from Ecuador.

The Front in Defence of the People's Struggles Ecuador rejects and condemns the arrest of the leader of Conaie, Leónidas Iza.

It is clear that the strategy of the government and its repressive apparatuses is to dismantle the leadership of the indigenous movement, in the absurd idea that it will be able to neutralise the growing popular protest.

Any repressive measure taken by the government will fuel the popular struggle. It is no longer enough to fight for the ten points listed in the AGENDA OF NATIONAL FIGHT, it is necessary to fight for the release of the banker and his murderous companions.

A cop in Delmenhorst, Lower Saxony, recently filmed himself beating up a man in a cell with his bodycam. He hit the 41-year-old man, whom he had arrested beforehand, several times with his head against a cell wall. The whole thing was done in the presence of his superior and his patrol partner, who calmly watched their colleague's violent excess.

We publish an unofficial translation of a contribution by the comrades of Sol Rojo  from Mexico, in memory of comrade Chino Pelón, whose death marked its first anniversary on 10 June 2022.

Oaxaca, Mexico. 10 June marked the first anniversary of the death of Saúl Morales Hernández, our dear comrade "Chino Pelón". A year ago he was sown in the earth - the same earth in Chiapas where he was born - and since then his memory has been walking in the footsteps of poor peasants and workers in the mountains of Oaxaca and Chiapas. There is no march where his name does not appear, there is no protest where the masses do not pay homage to him and defy the old land-owning, bureaucratic state. Soon we will also see him at the commemorative marches for the APPO; his name and his red flag will once again be waving thousands of times in the streets and on the barricades. Saúl Morales Hernández - In the heart and in the struggles of the people!

Last month, thousands of people on the Japanese island of Okinawa protested against the stationing of Yankee troops on Japanese territory. 15 May played a special role in this, as this day marks the end of Yankee imperialism's official rule over Okinawa and its return to the Japanese government in 1972. This year marked the 50th anniversary of the event.