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December 31:
At the turn of the year, the border police of the old Indian state announced the transfer of three battalions, i.e. more than 3,000 police officers, from the state of Odisha to the state of Chhattisgarh in order to achieve its self-imposed goal of ending the people's war in India. At the same time, an equal number of police from the Indo-Tibetan Border Police are to be transferred to the Narayanpur district of Chhattisgarh to take action against the forest and village area of Abujhmad, described as a Maoist stronghold. These troop deployments are part of a plan unveiled by the interior minister of the old Indian state as a "plan against left-wing extremism" in December to defeat the people's war in India.

Last weekend, a 26-year-old man from Ghana was killed by police in a municipal refugee shelter in Mülheim-Saarn. Prior to this, the young refugee had allegedly gone on the rampage in the accommodation and attacked the facility's security staff. When the police found the man in the accommodation, he allegedly attacked the police officers in his room. The police then used Tasers, i.e. stun guns, on the man twice. According to the police, however, the man did not react to the extremely violent electric shocks or collapse. Interviews with police spokespeople and bourgeois media reports further reveal that the man was then arrested with pain grips and considerable force and transported in a fixed position to an ambulance. There he had to be resuscitated during the journey to hospital, so he was already close to death. Once at the hospital, the fugitive died on Sunday morning.

In Germany, there is currently a large wave of mass protests by farmers across the country. The reason for the protests is the government's planned cuts in the current budget on the backs of the people, which is currently affecting the peasents in particular. They have been resisting this and have blocked numerous highways and traffic junctions throughout the country in recent days.

This year the presidential primaries are taking place in Mexico. On the democratic and revolutionary news site "solrojista", Mexican revolutionaries give their assessment, emphasizing that these elections are a circus show by the big bourgeoisie to push through the imperialist megaprojects that are still being fought over. By imperialist megaprojects we mean large infrastructure projects that we have already reported on several times. Among them are the so-called "Mayan Train" with the participation of the German Federal State Railway and the so-called Interoceanic Corridor, a railroad line and industrial project between the Pacific and the Atlantic in the southern Mexican isthmus with the complex participation of imperialist and bureaucratic capital from all over the world.

The new year has arrived and New Year's Eve is over. In the run-up to the New Year, we reported in several articles on the media propaganda campaign and the arming of police forces in the run-up to the turn of the year, in view of the German bourgeoisie's fear of new fights on New Year's Eve. A look at the bourgeois media landscape now gives the impression that it was a fairly quiet New Year's Eve and that the tactic of increasing the police contingents and placing working-class districts under occupation nationwide worked. But this narrative is more likely to cause confusion than to reflect objective reality. It may be that there were fewer attacks and fights with the police overall - we have no figures independent of the police and the bourgeois press - but there were still many targeted attacks on the police this New Year's Eve. This was also the case in North Rhine-Westphalia, despite the mobilization of 6600 police officers by Interior Minister Herbert Reul.

Also on this New Year's Eve were attacks on the police in various cities in Baden Württemberg. The highlight this of them was in Freiburg, where young people from a working-class neighborhood set up barricades and shot fireworks at the arriving cops.