What has long been the case in other European countries such as France is also slowly but gradually taking place more and more frequently in the FRG. In Germany, too, there have recently been increasing reports of spontaneous fights by workers and youths against the police and other so-called "emergency services". After the events that took place all over Germany on New Year's Eve this year, in which mainly young people and young adults from the deepest and broadest masses celebrated exuberantly on the streets and took out their anger against their exploitation and oppression on the police and other "emergency services", there have been the fights in Villingen-Schwellingen, the Eritrea festivals and the current fights in the context of the Palestinian liberation struggle, which is coming to a head above all in Berlin. There were also other small battles that largely went under the radar of the bourgeois press.

On Halloween, for several years now there have been regular small and large-scale clashes, especially between proletarian youths and the police. And this year too, the fights in the Hamburg districts of Harburg and Lurup dominate the headlines of the bourgeois media. But even if the fights in Harburg and Lurup certainly represent a high point in terms of the number of participants, endurance and weaponry (according to police reports, Molotov cocktails were found in Lurup), there were also small and large-scale actions by the masses in other places in Germany, who took advantage of the general Halloween hustle and bustle to carry out attacks on symbols of the state and the police.

In North Rhine-Westphalia, for example, there are increasing reports of police forces being deliberately lured into ambushes in order to attack them and the approaching fire department.

In Hagen, youths first set off pyrotechnics in several parts of the city and then pelted the approaching police units with firecrackers and eggs. One of the attackers was arrested by the police.

In Essen, young people from the working-class district around the high-rise housing estates on Bergmannsfeld set fire to several garbage containers. When the fire department arrived, they were shot at with rockets and firecrackers to such an extent that the police arrived and were also shot at before all those involved were able to flee unhindered. Similar actions against the police and fire department had already taken place in Bergmannsfeld on New Year's Eve.

The fire department in Essen extinguishes burning garbage cans under police protection.

In Marl, the clashes were apparently so intense at times that the police were forced to clear the main station with a large contingent. The reason for the evacuation was an emergency call received by the police about a brawl at Marl station. When the police arrived with several units, they were confronted by a crowd of around 100 youths who immediately attacked the cops and their patrol cars with firecrackers. In order to bring the situation under control, the police also had to use a helicopter. It was later reported that one person was arrested for resisting police officers.

Young people and police confront each other in Marl.

The police clear Marl station.

In Duisburg, the rage was unleashed mainly on trains, buses and bus stops, which were also attacked with all kinds of pyrotechnics and striking tools.

CDU Interior Minister Herbert Reul summed up Halloween night in NRW as follows: "Instead of fun pranks, chaots used the evening to cause trouble on the streets".

The fact that even in "quiet" Germany there are more and more spontaneous struggles of the masses against the police should not come as too much of a surprise. The decomposition of imperialism is progressing and the tough burdens of the crisis have been dumped more and more on the backs of the working class and the people for years now, while German imperialism continues to push militarization and with inflation also the impoverishment of the masses. All this happens then also in a climate of the most disgusting chauvinism against large parts of the deepest and broadest masses consisting of migrants. These are all things that do not remain forever without echo and so the deputy federal chairman of the police "union" GdP is absolutely wrong when he denies the fights on Halloween their political character and calls them "fun rampages". These "rampages" are an expression of great mistrust and hatred of the deepest and broadest masses against the bourgeois state and its representatives. In order for this justified rebellion not to remain spontaneous uprisings, it is important that the masses receive the revolutionary leadership they deserve and desire in these tumultuous times. The events of Halloween are another proof of this.

Cover picture: Taken from social media.