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"Cancel culture" is a much-discussed concept that involves individuals or collectives who engage in actions or statements that are in some way chauvinistic being publicly branded and often excluded from contexts. This word is primarily used by right-wingers and reactionaries to complain about an allegedly dominant and hegemonic "left-wing cancel culture" because, for example, "you're not allowed to say anything these days". Just how successful the alleged "left-wing cancel culture" is in reality can be seen from the fact that patriarchal criminals like Till Lindemann and Luke Mockridge can continue to fill the event halls of the republic without having to fear any consequences - apart from a few good protests.

Two years ago,on May 2. Police officers in Mannheim beat a mentally ill man to death in the city center. Now, last Friday, the trial ended with a scandalous verdict in favor of the murderers.

In the state of Pernambuco in north-eastern Brazil, poor peasants have been blockading the highway in the town of Escada for several days. The reason for these massive road blockades is the murder of the poor peasant Deyvison Batista da Silva, who was first arrested by the military police for no reason on the afternoon of February 21 of this year and then detained.

Yesterday, the first Ruhr Area Care Conference took place in Gelsenkirchen under the slogan "Care Triage Summit".The conference was organized by public bodies such as the AWO, Diakonie, various foundations and private companies such as "Humanitas" from Essen as well as the interest group for carers in NRW. Neither part of the organizing committee nor represented in the conference's supporting programme were the North Rhine-Westphalia Chamber of Care Professionals, which represents all carers, or the trade union Verdi, which represents care workers in their labour struggles.


On Monday in the evening, Daniela Klette, a former militant of the Red Army Faction, was arrested by special police units in Berlin. Daniela belonged to the so-called third generation of the RAF and had been on the run with two other RAF members since its dissolution in 1998.

Yesterday, the first in a series of events of the Open Palestine Meeting took place in Bochum, in which over a hundred people participated, listened to lectures, presented cultural contributions, ate Palestinian food together and discussed together. We have received the following report from the activists of the Red League of North Rhine-Westphalia about the action.