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The revolution of the Workers' and Soldiers' Councils caused the German Emperor Wilhelm II to flee into exile in the Netherlands in 1918, and the Weimar Republic sent him a hefty settlement and 59 railroad cars full of luxury goods after him.

We publish here an English translation of an article that was published on the website Socialistik Revolution.

120 friends, family members, comrades and democratic activists gathered on October 13, 2021, in Sweden‘s Capitol Stockholm to salute and send off Turkish revolutionary Musa (Mustafa Yavuz). Throughout his life, Musa took firm position for the revolution, preserved his revolutionary personality throughout his life and acted according to his convictions:

We document actions in Sweden in honour of Chairman Gonzalo.

The 17th of October marked the 60th anniversary of the massacre of officially 48 Algerians killed by French police during protests in 1961.

Comrades in Mexico have documented a series of actions for Chairman Gonzalo, recognized as the greatest Marxist-Leninist-Maoist, mainly Maoist,of our time.

In Ardahan province in northwestern Turkey, the gendarmerie has expelled residents from Serinchayir village for organising against forest clearing. Members of the village association against the felling of the surrounding forests in Serinchayir and members of the regional association who had travelled to the village were blocked and threatened by the gendarmerie in the run-up to a planned meeting.

Sweden

In Trollhättan wall slogans were spotted with “Eternal glory to Chairman Gonzalo” and “Chairman Gonzalo is invicible”, among others.

The Stockholm chief of police has stated what wishes he has for the future of the police. Firstly he wants more “visible police” in the what the Swedish state classifies as “vulnerable areas” (area of “low socio-economic status”), such as in the Järva area of Stockholm. Also he said that in order to combat criminal gangs, audio surveillance should be legal and the use of anonymous witnesses admissible in courts.

A conference on the topic of combating anti-semitism was held in Malmö last week. The main focus was not what the name of the conference would suggest, it was mainly a way to appease Israel, after Sweden officially recognised Palestine as a state seven years ago (but still also recognising Israel), after which there has been no diplomatic relations between the countries.

The choice of holding the conference in the city of Malmö, is also very clear, many migrants from Palestine live here and the city has a history of struggles in support of Palestine. One example of such struggle is the 2009 demonstration against a tennis match with Israel, where the police barricaded a large area around the venue and for they had to ask Danish police to borrow additional riot vehicles, in the demonstration many thousands took part, that lead to large-scale struggles with the police.

Israel has sent one of its ministers, and he was joined via video-link by President of France Emmanuel Macron, Minister of the exterior Anthony Blinken from the USA, representative from the UN and others. Macron made the main focus on how governments should have more control over social media, so they more actively censor content, because "We want to stop hate speech online and ensure we have a safe digital environment for our citizens", what a lie that is, just look at his role in the increase of religiously based violence in France. Representatives from Google, Facebook and Tiktok, were therefore also present to pledge to combat antisemitism on their platforms, we can assume that it means a pledge to censoring support for the Palestinian national liberation struggle.

And what about Sweden started to examine its own past of colluding with and providing material support for fascist Germany during the second world war and its continued complacency in its own problems with fascists, instead of blaming religious and chauvinist violence on the masses.

This conference shows how afraid imperialism is to attack their enemies head-on and how it always has to make up false excuses for what they do. They conceal their opinions, because they know the masses despise them.