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In Essen-Leithe, on the evening of April 8, the police were filmed brutally arresting a naked man in a park. In the video, which was filmed by an eyewitness and "Der Westen" was leaked, you can probably see the defenseless man being beaten bloody with batons by up to seven different cops for six minutes. Tasers and a biting police dog were also used because the police, reportedly outnumbered, felt threatened by the naked and unarmed man. According to the police officers, he behaved aggressively towards them and attacked them. However, this could be refuted in an interview with the filming eyewitness, namely, the man hid in a bush from the cops when the police dog rushed towards him and bit his calf.

We document a report sent to us about a demonstration in Berlin-Hellersdorf.

We publish an statement of the Central Committee of the CPI (Maoist) on the War of Imperialist Russia on Ukraine, that can also be found here.

We publish here an unofficial translation of the leaflet of the Red Women's Committee Bremen "Against passing on the costs of the war to the working class! For free local transport, abolition of the value added tax and assumption of the costs of electricity!" in Russian, which was sent to us.

Protests in Gaza against the attacks on the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

The Palestinian struggle for national liberation and against the Israeli occupation has again come to a head with the start of the religious holiday of Ramadan. Muslims, as well as Christians, are prevented by the Zionist state from celebrating their religious festivals and are subjected to outrageous repression.

We publish the statement on the day of Palestinian political prisoners of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah published on samidoun.net.

Dear comrades and friends,

Celebrating today, through your gathering here, the Day of the Palestinian Prisoner or the International Day of the Revolutionary Prisoner is certainly not only to express our unwavering solidarity with our comrades imprisoned in Zionist jails or in the jails of fascism in Turkey or elsewhere around the world; it is not only to support with all our strength their just demands and thereby salute the current mobilization around the open-ended hunger strike of our two dear comrades Sibel Balaç and Gökhan Yildirim, which began over 110 days ago. The celebration of the “Day of the Palestinian Prisoner” or the “International Day of the Revolutionary Prisoner” is intended above all Comrades, to affirm our strong determination to liberate our comrades from the grips of the criminal jailers.

Last Monday, a large anti-militarist demonstration took place in downtown Hamburg.

A new study by the Hans Böckler Foundation published last week confirms the city of Bremerhaven as a stronghold of poverty. The study measures the average per capita income in all independent cities and districts in the FRG. There are 401 of them in total, Bremerhaven lands in 398th place. With an annual income of about 18,500 euros per capita, Bremerhaven comes off among the worst.

So while people in Bremerhaven earn an average of 18,500 euros a year, the picture is quite different in other districts. Especially in the south of the Federal Republic, people's incomes are higher. The front-runner is Heilbronn in Baden-Württemberg, where the average income is over 42,000 euros. The national average is 23,706 euros.