DEM VOLKE DIENEN

Also on this New Year's Eve were attacks on the police in various cities in Baden Württemberg. The highlight this of them was in Freiburg, where young people from a working-class neighborhood set up barricades and shot fireworks at the arriving cops.

December 18:
The Andhra-Odisha State Border Special Zonal Committee of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) issued a message of support for the Anganwadi workers' strike, according to bourgeois sources. An anganwadi is a type of day care center that is mainly found in rural India. The statement goes on to denounce the ruling party in the region for promising to raise wages and increase staff in the anganwadi before the election and not keeping any of its promises after the election.

The comrades of Rote Presse (Red Press) have reported us that they have scanned and uploaded the issue 70 of the Red Post, and additionally this month, the issue 20 of Class Position magazine. The documents can be found on top of the blog.

On New Year's Eve in North Rhine-Westphalia, the Ministry of the Interior and its head Herbert Reul are sending a total of 6600 police officers onto the streets of the federal state to "keep the peace". This deployment of forces is due to concerns in the Ministry of the Interior that, like last year on New Year's Eve, there could again come to major riots and attacks on police and other forces of the bourgeois state. Reul is also concerned that an "additional trigger" for possible clashes with the police could be the war of national resistance in Palestine against the Israeli state or the genocide committed by Israel against the Palestinian people in response to the resistance.

Shortly before Christmas on Saturday, December 23, there was another murder by the police in Mannheim. A 49-year-old father, who was in an acute mental crisis, was killed by several police officers with four shots.

On the occasion of the 130th anniversary of the birth of Chairman Mao, posters of the International Communist League were put up in Leipzig-Schönefeld. We share pictures sent to us.

To celebrate the 130th anniversary of the birth of Chairman Mao, posters of the International Communist League were put up on Herrmannstraße in Berlin-Neukölln and at Frankfurter Tor in Berlin-Friedrichshain. We share pictures sent to us

The numerous reports of violent attacks by large landowners and their henchmen against poor and landless peasants who either have to fight for a piece of land or defend their hard-won land against these forces show the sad normality and continuity of the reactionary terror under which poor peasants throughout Brazil have to live.

On December 18, another such incident occurred.The inhabitants of the community of Marielle Franco in the south of the Brazilian state of Amazonas were once again attacked by gunmen and large landowners. This time it turned out that the gunmen were civilian police acting on behalf of the large landowners.