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In November last year, doctors at Freiburg's Josefs Hospital organized a warning strike. A short time later, a young doctor who was involved in organizing the action was terminate without notice. The case of this termination is now being heard before the labor court in Freiburg.

We would like to share with you here a summary of various events and statements from Turkey.

At the end of December, there was an attack by armed lumpen on a reader of Partizan.The target of the lumpen gang attack in the Gazi district of Istanbul was "Munzur's Breakfast Cafe", a restaurant run by Partizan reader Asker Akkoç, in which Asker Akkoç was injured by gunshots. In the attack, the bullets injured Akkoç in the hip, arms and legs. Partizan and the democratic and revolutionary newspaper "Yeni demokrasi" informed in the aftermath of the events that Akkoç was the target of the attack due to his activism against fundamentalist groups and sects in the neighborhood.

We are very happy to be able to report that one comrade was relaeadsed from jail, as we were informed via email. We still await the confirmation that also the second LLL-Prisoner was released. The actions continue in defence of the many comrades accused.

Nowadays, the news and daily reports often seem absurd. One report that is sure to raise eyebrows is that the Bertelsmann Foundation is launching a major project to combat fake news, disinformation and manipulation. Under the slogan "Forum against Fakes - Together for a strong democracy", a "citizens' council" of 120 participants, supposedly representative of all social and educational strata, will address various questions and problems on how to better protect bourgeois democracy from "fake news". For this purpose, the Bertelsmann Stiftung, in cooperation with the Federal Ministry of the Interior, the Mercator Foundation and the Michael Otto Foundation for Sustainability, has set up a website where citizens can submit their suggestions, which will be incorporated into the project's work. In September, the results of this "Citizens' Council" will then be presented to the Federal Ministry of the Interior and the public and recommendations for action will be made on how to tackle fake news and disinformation. According to Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser, these recommendations for action will then become part of the federal government's strategy against fake news.

For the past days, there have been numerous large-scale demonstrations against the AfD. These protests are very large indeed. Hundreds of thousands of people have taken part, including numerous politicians from the governing parties. One reason to ask what the revolutionaries attitude to these protests should be.

Last year, we reported for the first time on the establishment of so-called "homeland security regiments" of the German Armed Forces.These "homeland security regiments" are military units that consist mainly of reservists and previously undrafted civilians and receive military training and tasks from the German Armed Forces in their "free time". This means that the units are primarily made up of people who have normal jobs in civilian life. The tasks of a so-called homeland security regiment are primarily associated in the bourgeois media with internal catastrophes such as natural disasters or pandemics. However, in our last article on this topic, we were able to show that there is much more behind the military propaganda of a "friend and helper in soldier's uniform".

Last Friday, January 12, a court trial began in Mannheim against two police officers who publicly beat a 47-year-old mentally ill man to death in the city center of Mannheim on May 2, 2022.