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It was only a matter of time and now it has happened. The first head has rolled in the traffic light government led by the godfather of Hamburg - the gangster Olaf Scholz. Federal Minister for Family Affairs Anne Spiegel (Greens) announced her resignation from her office on the afternoon of 11 April 2022, and only a good four months after being sworn in. The reason lies in the flood disaster in July last year. At the time, Anne Spiegel was the state minister for the environment in Rhineland-Palatinate, which was badly affected by the flood. Nevertheless, Spiegel, who was directly responsible because of her office at the time, went on holiday for a whole four weeks only ten days after the flood.

You are allowed to hang a Confederate flag in your garden, one of the German Empire and of Saudi Arabia. Bumper stickers glorifying the Bundeswehr or the US Army are no problem at all. But what will not be allowed in the future are Z-symbols in public.

In the last few days, there was a street agitation against the imperialist war in Ukraine in the workers' neighbourhood of Billstedt.

Signs against the war were held up, the statement of the Red Women's Committee was distributed and a banner was hung up. The action was very welcomed and the statement was gladly received. There was particular encouragement when the slogan "Hail to international solidarity" was intoned. It was clear that people continue to see Yankee imperialism as the main enemy of the peoples of the world and have had enough of the lies and hypocrisy of the rulers of the FRG, who alone want to demonise Putin and are themselves the warmongers. We document pictures of the action which were sent to us.

On March 10, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) issued an international call for action, mobilizing “the Maoist Parties, oppressed classes, sections and nationalities of the country and the world [...] to grandly celebrate the anti-imperialist week; raise voice against Russian invasion on Ukraine, expose the conspiracies of the US and demand the termination of NATO; extend solidarity to the anti-imperialist, anti-war worldwide people’s movements; uphold the worldwide revolutionary movements, people’s wars and the national liberation movements [...]“.

We publish an unofficial translation of an article by El Comunero Prensa Popular from Colombia about the murder of eleven peasants by the reactionary Colombian military.

On March 28th, around 7am in the community of Remanso, in the village of Puerto Ospina, municipality of Puerto Leguízamo, Putumayo, the reactionary army of Colombia viciously assassinated 11 peasants and left 4 more wounded.

In the following we want to give a short brief on some of the recent actions and developments in People´s War in India, led by the Communist Party of India (Maoist) (CPI[Maoist]).

We publish an unofficial translation of an article published by the Revolutionary Newspaper A Nova Democracia from Brazil.

Hundreds of peasants from the National Front of Struggle Countryside and City (FNL), between March 27 and 29, suffered forced evictions carried out by the military under the orders of the old State in benefit of the latifundium. The families resisted, held protests and part of them continue occupying the lands. The evictions took place in the municipality of Euclides Cunha in the state of São Paulo and in Pato Branco in the state of Paraná. Both illegal evictions did not respect the decision of the Federal Supreme Court (STF) to suspend evictions and evictions due to the pandemic until June 2022.

Vehicles arrive at the Carlos Marighella camp to evict the people.

Tractors are taken by the military to destroy Carlos Marighella peasant camp.

PEASANTS RESIST EVICTION AT THE ROSA LUXEMBURGO CAMP

On March 27, dozens of peasants set fire to objects to block the road that gives access to PR-151. This was a protest against the eviction of 50 families carried out the same day at the Rosa Luxemburg encampment. The peasant families were occupying an area of 15 hectares, a latifundium belonging to the old state, in the region of Jardim Carvalho, located in the municipality of Pato Branco in Paraná.

The peasants also demanded the release of Leandro Dias, a regional leader of the FNL, who was taken to the 13th Police Sub-division to "answer questions about the occupation" after the resistance of the families against the eviction that took place in the camp.

The forced eviction was backed by the city government. Soldiers from the Military Police (PM) and the Civil Guard surrounded the camp with vehicles. The families resisted the police repression during the eviction action and proclaimed: "The people united will never be defeated!

Leandro Dias said that the place where the Rosa Luxemburgo Camp is located is an estate that has been abandoned for decades, and that could house around 700 families.

Zé Rainha, national leader of the FNL stated that: "Not all stuggles are won. The stuggles that are lost should serve as a lesson and a learning process. Zé Rainha also said: "In the fight for land there is no tie, either we defeat the landowners or we will be defeated by them. This is the character of the class. The leader also concluded that to defeat capitalism, a peasant and worker alliance is necessary in this struggle.

EVICTION OF CAMP CARLOS MARIGHELLA

On March 29, in benefit of the latifundium, the Euclides da Cunha City Hall called in military police who evicted 220 peasant families and destroyed the Carlos Marighella camp, located in the region of Pontal de Paranapanema, in the state of São Paulo.

The military police arrived at the camp around 7:45am. They stopped tractors and threatened the peasant families, saying that if by 12:30 they still had any kind of personal belongings of the workers, everything would be swept away and buried with the machines. The police destroyed all the shacks built by the families.

The camp was built in December 2021 by dozens of families who occupied an area of 12 thousand hectares of the latifundium, the former Ponte Branca ranch that belonged to Ênio Pipino, one of the settlers of the region in the 1940s, known for his violent persecution of peasants and indigenous people of the region.

According to the FNL, "the current resident of this region is the grandfather of Mayor Nene Lopes (Republicans), which explains the hurry and violence of the City Hall in demolishing the houses, and the resistance to the distribution of these public lands for agrarian reform.

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In the working class district of Gröpelingen in Bremen, the Red Women's Committee Bremen distributed their leaflet against the imperialist war and its costs, which are now being passed on to the workers and the people. The leaflet was distributed in German, as well as in Arabic, Bulgarian and English, and hung up at local tram stops. For this purpose, the comrades carried a sign with the inscription: "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!" We have received pictures of the action, which we publish here.