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A burnt excavator after the attack on a road construction company, source: thehindu.com

India:

August 19:
In the state of Jharkhand in West Singhbhum district,a police informer was killed by members of the People's Liberation Guerrilla Army led by the Communist Party of India (Maoist). A poster was placed next to the killed informer urging people not to cooperate with the police or be recruited as police informers and instead engage in agriculture and wage labor. Furthermore, all individuals acting on behalf of the police were told to surrender and that they would be forgiven if they did so.

Last week has seen yet another coup of the military in Africa, this time in the country of Gabon. Elections conducted on Wednesday were annulled the same day by the military, a curfew was put in place, the internet got shut down and former president Ali Bongo was placed in house arrest. Yesterday borders have been opened again with the situation in the country stabilizing.

A total of 60,000 people were victims of forced sterilizations in the United States between 1907 and 1981, during the period when the procedure was legal, according to bourgeois estimates. Of these, 85 percent are believed to have been women and girls. During its peak, the 1960s and 1970s, masses of black and indigenous women were forcibly rendered infertile by state order.

Hamburg's Jungfernstieg is considered one of the most magnificent places in Hamburg, it is an attraction for tourists and the rich who spend time in the expensive restaurants and cafes around it. In summer, however, the beautiful view of the Alster also invites many young people to sit on the promenade and have a drink or two in the evening. But young people sitting in groups on the stairs at Jungfernstieg, listening to music and drinking alcohol, do not fit at all into the image of the magnificent promenade for bigwigs for the Hamburg Senate.

Herbert Reul, Minister of the Interior in North Rhine-Westphalia and especially known for his "zero tolerance" policy against "clan criminality" under which especially people in working-class neighborhoods and not organized lumpen suffer, has presented this week a new leadership strategy of the police in North Rhine-Westphalia. The WDR report on this focuses primarily on points of the new leadership strategy, which is to be about the future prevention of "extremist" i.e. fascist standpoints in the police and more transparency. Thus, in the future, there should be more supervisions, monitoring, employee interviews and coaching in the police forces of the federal state. In addition, the strategy paper addresses issues such as addiction and the recognition of "anti-democratic tendencies" among police officers.

Yesterday, at the 29.08.2023 the political prisoner Thomas Meyer Falk was released after over 26 years of captivity. A long time of this he was inprisoned at so called “preventive detention” which is based on a law, which was introduced by the German fascists.

25. August:

There is news in the case of the four arrested activists of the Manoel Ribeiro camp. The activists Estefane, Ricardo, Ezequiel and Luiz Carlos were summoned again for a hearing on August 25. The four farmers and activists have faced constant repression since their arrest on May 14, 2021, as part of a process against them based on false evidence and the political will to criminalize the struggle for land that is gaining momentum in Brazil.

After a month-long stalemate, the governing parties have finally achieved and agreed on a compromise on the so-called basic child security. In addition to the government's obvious and well-known inability, it is also striking in this respect that poverty is in no way reduced, limited or even combated by the new regulations.