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On February the 6th Kampkomiteen marked the Day of the Same People in Kristiansand together with other organisations to express their solidarity with the Same people and to condemn the reactionary Norwegian State’s treatment of the of the Same people. After the demonstration a social gathering with multiple speeches were held.

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On 19 February 2022, as in many other cities of the FRG, a demonstration took place in Bremen-Huckelriede in commemoration of the assassination in Hanau, where 9 people were murdered by a fascist, which was now the second anniversary. The 1000 participants of the demonstration, which went through the Neustadt district to the city centre, had a militant attitude, denouncing the involvement and role of the state in racist murders like the one in Hanau. The "Rote Kollektiv Bremen" also participated with a banner reading "Hanau was not an isolated case! Fight fascism - smash FRG!" and leaflets under the same slogan.

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On Sunday, during protests against a U.S.-funded infrastructure project, the Nepalese people fought, partially intensely, against the reactionary police forces. The masses gathered in the capitol of Kathmandu in front of the parliament to enforce the withdrawal of the so called grants from the “Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC)”.

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The Serbian region around the Jadar Valley lives mainly from agriculture and tourism. All the more threatening were the plans of an international mining monopoly to mine lithium on their doorstep. Rural masses and environmentalists resisted these plans.

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The Freiburg city administration has approved the development plan for the Metzergrün in Freiburg's Stühlinger neighborhood.

The Metzgergrün is one of the few places in Freiburg where one can still live relatively cheaply. While the average rent per square meter in Freiburg currently costs €15, there are still apartments in the Metzgergrün where tenants pay only €6 per square meter.

The apartments are relatively small, but in a nice location and all have their own garden. So here you can live quite nicely despite a small wallet, which is quite a unique characteristic in Freiburg. Anyone who wants to live so close to the city center and would also like to have some nature on their doorstep usually has to earn a good income. Affordable housing can otherwise be found mainly in neighborhoods like Haslach, Weingarten and Landwasser, which are all pretty far from the city center. The apartments there are also often in a miserable condition.

Freiburger Stadtbau has been planning for some time now to tear down the old houses and build 550 new apartments in place of the 250 old ones. Of these, 50% are supposed to be social housing, although 122 of them will not be built on the currently developed site.

Only 150 social housing units will be built there, the rent of which, according to the current planning, should already be higher than it currently is. So, in this case, the construction of "social housing" means an increase in rent. In addition, the remaining 230 apartments that will be built on the site will be private and owner-occupied apartments. There will be gardens only for those who can afford it. The existing residents will have to give up their green spaces.

The development plan is also designed in such a way that part of the social housing will be built directly next to a railroad track, so to speak, to serve as noise protection for the more expensive homes.

Stadtbau promises not to raise the rent for the first five years, but what happens after that is unclear. It can be assumed that affordable rent will be over by then at the latest. Social housing in such projects has repeatedly turned out to be a farce, whether in Rieselfeld or Dietenbach.

So now the city administration has approved the plan. Many complaints and criticisms had been received, but no points that could call the procedure into question, Stadtbau says.

The fact that hardly anyone in Metzgegrün agrees with the demolition is shown, among other things, by the many signs and banners that residents have put up, as well as their long fight with demonstrations and legal means against the development.

The decision of Stadtbau is made over their heads and does not correspond to the interests of the residents, no matter how socially it is passed out.

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

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On February 15, the much discussed "crisis meeting" between the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and the Russian President Vladimir Putin took place. This meeting was mainly about the current situation around Ukraine, where the increased contradictions between the imperialists are very clear.

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On 8 February, the dockworkers of the COSCO group in the port of Piraeus went on strike for the second time. There had already been strikes in October, November and December last year, triggered by the death of a colleague who died in an industrial accident. The workers demanded more safety at work and better health protection. Already during the strike last December it was said that: "...we are now mourning one of our colleagues, while hundreds more are suffering from health problems due to the intensification of work and inadequate hygiene and safety measures". Of the 2,200 workers, there were only about 50 strikebreakers who showed up for work. The rest of the workers participated in the strike.

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After truck drivers in Canada blocked the capital as well as a major border crossing into the USA with their vehicles, demanding the removal of the Corona measures, this protest spread to France. Here, around 3000 vehicles tried to get onto the Champs Elysées and up to the Arc de Triomphe.