DEM VOLKE DIENEN

Northern Europe:

A joint statement from organisations of the Nordic Countries of Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Norway against Swedish and Finnish NATO membership has been shared by comrades on Punalippu. The joint statement has been signed by the Communist League of Sweden, the Anti-imperialist League (Finland), Anti-Imperialist Collective (Denmark) and Red Front (Norway).

In the last two weeks there have been several reports that Chinese spy balloons have been spotted over North and South America. The social-imperialists in China denied this, saying that these are weather balloons that are only for scientific research that should not be worried about. For the government of the USA however, these balloons represent an act of war, since it would constitute military espionage and therefore they demand direct consequences such as sanctions.

We publish an unofficial translation of a document by the comrades of the FDLP-EC from Ecuador.

Lasso's regime is corrupt. Of course, just being a banker makes him corrupt.

A banker makes him corrupt. His mere fact of owning the means of production and usurping the labour of the workers already makes him corrupt. So nothing new under the sun.

On February 11, a broad alliance consisting of different progressive and revolutionarist forces from Basel had called for the "Revolutionary Climate Demonstration". About 500 people from Switzerland, Germany and France took part in the demonstration, aiming to advance a revolutionary and anti-capitalist standpoint in the climate movement.

In Bremen, actions have been carried out in recent days denouncing and condemning the current crimes and cruelties of the old states of the big landowners and bureaucratic capitalists in Brazil and Mexico against the people and especially the poor peasants, and expressing solidarity with the struggling masses, especially those who are developing the struggle under the leadership of the League of Poor Peasants (LCP) in Brazil and the Popular Current - Red Sun (CP-Sol Rojo) in Mexico. We share information and pictures that have been sent to us.

On February 8th, the Alliance Against Imperialist Aggression held a rally to denounce the massacre of several poor peasants in the Brazilian state of Rondina and the threats to the people's resistance against the Interoceanic Corridor of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec (CIIT) in the municipality of Rincón Tagolaba (Rinconcito) in Tehuantepec, Oaxaca (Mexico). The Alliance Against Imperialist Aggression had called for the rally after the threats to the people's resistance against the imperialist mega-project in Mexico became known. Shortly after, the massacre of the poor peasants in Brazil also became known, so the Alliance Against Imperialist Aggression updated its call and immediately denounced these cruel murders by the Brazilian state and its police.

The Munich Security Conference will take place between February 17 and 19. Originally, Foreign Minister Baerbock wanted to present the first "National Security Strategy" of the FRG, on which the Foreign Ministry has been working for a year. As of now this will probably be delayed for some time still. However, since the topic has been on everyone's lips in recent weeks, there were once again calls from various quarters of the bourgeois press at the beginning of the year calling for a so-called "National Security Council" Yankee-style. In January, the heads of the state chancelleries of the federal states met at a crisis meeting to discuss this matter further, while at the same time the heads of the traffic light coalition tried to settle their differences behind closed doors.