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Graffiti is something we are all familiar with. You can see it on every corner in every city. The number of illegally applied tags and graffiti is increasing in various places in Baden Württemberg. The various cities take actions against these activities with using different methods.

March 13:
In the well-known Bijapur district of the Indian state of Chhattisgarh, a gun battle broke out between members of the People's Liberation Guerrilla Army of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) and members of the reactionary district police and special forces. The gun battle was preceded by an anti-Maoist search operation by the reactionary police forces of the old Indian state. The search operation of the reactionary police forces was successfully interrupted by the Maoist guerrillas. According to reports from police circles, an uninvolved woman was injured by stray bullets during the clash. Since the police themselves do not blame the Maoist fighters, the report can be interpreted to mean that the woman was injured by police gunfire.

In the town of Solingen near the North Rhine-Westphalian state capital of Düsseldorf, an arson attack was carried out on Monday night on an apartment building in which mainly Muslim Bulgarians with Turkish roots lived. The arson attack killed an entire family and seriously injured nine other people. The dead were a couple aged 28 and 29, their three-year-old child and a five-month-old baby. The remaining nine seriously injured people are also Bulgarian citizens.


An event recently took place in Baden-Württemberg with the local Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann. This event was particularly noticeable because of the enormous police presence that could be seen all around. Now about a month later, the costs of this police operation has become public.

We have often reported on the imperialist megaproject of the Interoceanic Corridor on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. This is an industrial and logistics project consisting of a rail link in the southern isthmus of Mexico, which connects the Pacific and Atlantic oceans and is to be used for the transportation of goods. On the other hand, a federal highway, ten industrial parks and a gas pipeline are being built parallel to the rail link. A central component of the whole project is that both the Atlantic port of Coatzacoalcos and the Pacific port of Salina Cruz are to be expanded into modern industrial ports with a multiplication of their current container capacities. This project, centred around the rail link, is rounded off by the militarization of the entire region by the old Mexican state.

The green-black state government of the CDU and the Greens has promised parents and children in North Rhine-Westphalia better all-day care at elementary school. The state government had planned a law that would guarantee a secure entitlement to all-day care in schools. This law would not only relieve the burden on parents, especially mothers, and enable them to better reconcile paid work and child care or have a little more free time in their stressful everyday lives, but would also guarantee children better educational and extracurricular support. In general, the law would also make a positive contribution to the otherwise increasingly overburdened school system.

A broad and lively campaign is currently unfolding in Mexico to boycott the upcoming presidential elections of the old Mexican state, which will take place on June 2. The comrades of the democratic and revolutionary website Mural Periodico write in a report on the election boycott activities about the special nature of the Mexican election campaign.

The question of affordable and good housing for the broad mass of the population is an increasingly pressing issue in pretty much every federal state. And in North Rhine-Westphalia too, the current economic crisis and its disastrous political handling for the majority of people is finding its particular expression in the housing shortage.