The YouTube channel DEMVOLKEDIENEN has been removed because it, according to “The YouTube team”, “wasn’t following” YouTube’s “policy on Violent criminal organizations”. In other words, the YouTube account DEMVOLKEDIENEN has been shut down because Zuckerbergs outlet want to silence a voice that has been spreading revolutionary information. This is called in normal language: censorship.

Over the years the videos uploaded on the YouTube account DEMVOLKEDIENEN have been watched hundreds of thousands of times. They have been downloaded and spread by revolutionaries and anti-imperialists not only in Germany but all over the world. The images of revolutionary actions in Germany and the spreading of important materials on the struggles of the Communist Parties leading People’s Wars, some times not available anywhere else on the Internet, made the account to be a source of education and information for thousands of revolutionaries. In some cases, even a source of inspiration.

It was a good thing and has served its purpose far more and better than the comrades who started it believed it ever would. It is not surprising that its being censored. It has been under attack before, videos have been deleted and it has been suspended, but it was possible to get it back. The drop that made Himmler’s spawn at YouTube to say “enough is enough (Heil!)” was the fact that the comrades running the account DEMVOLKEDIENEN uploaded a video from a action in solidarity with the People’s War in India, made in Europe in August. There are less honorable things to get censored for.

It will not be possible for the comrades running the account to get it back through legal proceedings, due to how it was set up in the first place. The comrades have tried the few possibilities that was at hand, but not surprisingly, it has not worked out.

This attack on a Platform for revolutionary and anti-imperialist information and propaganda fits perfectly into the scheme of suppression of any voice of dissent that is part of the process in which the bourgeois States are becoming even more reactionary, about which we constantly write on this website. We do not have to repeat all in this text, what we have written only the last months, weeks and days, should be known to our readers.

For the People “Free Speech” is an illusion, a hoax. Still, the blunt violation of what the defenders of the old Order call their “core values”, that they have written in their Constitutions and proclaimed as “law”, must and should be denounced so to show once again, for those who still have some faith left in this moribund beast that is imperialism, that there are no freedom for us as long as this vile system still thorns the Human race.

But to denounce is not enough, we have a responsibility that goes further than that. It is necessary to comment upon the political lesson that we have to learn out of this situation so to give an account for the Class.

When the YouTube account was shut down we should have been ready and we should have had the capacity to immediately upload all the videos on another Platform. We weren’t. Our practice did not match our theory. There are many reasons for this, but the most important to highlight publicly is what Lenin called our “handicraft” methods - an expression of liberalism (as the Great Helmsman would say).

In the class struggle the enemy will hit you, it is not a question of if, but only of when and how. If the enemy do not tries to hit you, then you are not doing your job as an revolutionary. The revolutionaries, accordingly, must be fully prepared for the incoming blows, to avoid them and to strike back, but also to receive them with out falling if there is no way to avoid them. In the field of agitation and propaganda this implies to have back-ups and alternative ways of spreading the materials ready to be put into work, long before the blow comes. It is indispensable to work professionally and to have not only a Plan A, but a whole set of alternative Plans ready.

Of course the videos that was published on the YouTube account DEMVOLKEDIENEN will be uploaded again by others on other Platforms. The enemy has once again thought us a lesson. We will learn from our mistakes. We will learn from the brave peasants of Rondônia. The comrades who is going to spread the videos of the Maoist movement in Germany will come back, more prepared and better organized.

And, dammit, we will hit back.