DEM VOLKE DIENEN

In the past weeks the People´s Liberation Guerilla Army (PLGA) under the leadership o the Communist Party of India (CPI[Maoist]) carried out several actions against the old Indian state and the upcoming elections at the regional stage.

On 4 February, militants of the Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist-Leninist (TKP/ML) blocked a street in the east of Istanbul with firebombs. They hung a banner on the street that read "Glory to our 50 years of struggle, TKP/ML-TIKKO". This action is in the light of the 50th anniversary of the TKP/ML, which was founded by the great communist Ibrahim Kaypakkaya in 1972.

We publish a statement of the CPI (Maoist) calling for the boycott of the elections.

10-02-2022

The Central Committee of the CPI (Maoist) calls upon the people of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Manipur and Goa to boycott the fake phase wise elections to the Assembly from 10th February to 7th March. On this occasion the CC once again places the New Democratic Revolutionary alternate program before the people of the country.

On 31 January 2022, a demonstration was mobilised in the Lebanese city of Sidon against the visit of the French ambassador Anne Grillo. This was linked to the decision of the Paris Administrative Court, which was scheduled for 10 February to rule on the extradition request of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, which is a condition for his return to Lebanon. The protest demanded the release of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, a Lebanese man imprisoned in France for his involvement in the struggle for the liberation of Palestine.

In Essen, an apartment was stormed by a special task force on Jan. 24. The reason was a call that a man with a gun had allegedly threatened children during their break in the schoolyard. The children's parents alerted the police. The special operations squad deployed because of the perceived danger to the officers. The commando stormed the apartment ignited stun grenades, pulled a young man out of bed and tied him on the floor and threatened im with an assault rifle.

At the end of January, deputies in the French upper house voted to amend a law that will prohibit the wearing of "conspicuous religious symbols" at sporting events and competitions. This new law joins a law passed in April last year that bans the wearing of a burqa or niqab in public places.

Finland

In Tampere proletarian revolutionaries commemorated the 104^th anniversary of the Finnish revolution that began the 27. of January 1918, according to Punalippu.

In many warehouses and workplaces of the supermarket chain Migros, Turkish offshoot of the same-named company from Switzerland and part of the Anadolu Group, workers are currently staging work stoppages. The labour struggle there is anything but new; working conditions are catastrophic, wages are low, and the treatment by the bosses, especially if one resists exploitation, is criminal. Currently, struggles for higher wages are growing there in the face of massive inflation.