DEM VOLKE DIENEN

Recently there were protests in 12 Lebanese so called "refugee camps" under the slogan "Enough, we want dignity". Palestinians make up 10% of the Lebanese population. Palestinians are classified as foreigners, refugees or stateless depending on current government, regardless if they were born in Lebanon or not. Roughly 2/3 of them are considered to be extremely poor with a very high level of unemployment.

Last week, the US President Trump met with Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan in Washington and praised the alleged progress in the "peace efforts" in Afghanistan. He announced the further withdrawal of the US troops, emphasizing that Afghanistan was not a war, cause he could win a war within a week, but he didn´tt want to kill 10,000,000 people. How ever the reality looks very different.

In the first three weeks of July, there were several attacks against the imperialist occupiers and their lackeys.

On July 7, resistance fighters launched an attack on a police post, with a car bomb, in Ghazni in the center of the country. At least eight security forces were killed and many others injured in the action.

In a suicide bombing at a wedding ceremony in eastern Afghanistan, on July 12, the head of a pro-government militia was killed.

In two attacks in the cities of Qala-e-Naw in the province of Baghdhis in western Afghanistan and in Sayed Abad in Wardak, on July 13, south of Kabul, a total of five army personnel were killed, including one US soldier.

In Kandahar, also in the center of Afghanistan, attackers stormed a police headquarters on July 18 and detonated suicide bomb in front of the building. Two policemen were killed and others injured.

In another attack on a police post in western Farah, four policemen were killed and two wounded on July 23.

On July 24, a Croatian soldier was killed by a suicide bomb attack and two others seriously injured.

On July 25, a minivan, staffed with government detainees, was blown up with a bomb and two suicide bombers. Nine government employees were killed in this attack.

During the night of July 25 to 26, several police stations in the northern province of Takhar were attacked. The rebels killed 13 members of the Afghan National Police and 24 police special forces.

Peace or peace efforts look different. Although the US has been negotiating with the Taliban for a long time, the Afghan people will never accept imperialist occupation. And Trump is right, the US could win a war of exermination against Afghanistan within a week, but they would not mind. On the one hand, the Afghan government is a puppet regime of the United States, and on the other hand, a country without a population can no longer be exploited for the interests of the imperialists.

From the 16th until the 19th of July a nation-wide strike took place in Ecuador for five days in a row. The strike, which was called out by multiple organizations among them workers unions and indigenous and peasant organizations, was aimed against the politics of current president Lenin Moreno. Ecuador is going through an economic, political and social crisis and the people of Ecuador where having no more of it.

This crisis is mostly being caused by US-imperialism, which is imposing a series of reforms in Ecuador through the IMF and the World Bank. The effects of these reforms, such as the mass firing of workers from the health sector, the budget cuts in the health and education sectors and the rise of fuel and electricity prices are felt throughout Ecuadorian society.

With great joy we spread the news on comrade Ajith, who has been set free on the 23. of July from Pune prison. It is still only a release on bail and we can expect more repression against the comrade, but for now, we share this image of him outside of prison:

Comrades of Association New Democracy have today, for the first time in history, published the summary document of the Third Session of the historical I. Party Congress in Spanish. We salute the great efforts made to present this transcendental document to the International Communist Movement.

PARTIDO COMUNISTA DEL PERÚ: DOCUMENTO RESUMEN DEL PRIMER CONGRESO TERCERA SESIÓN

As published recently, our imprisioned comrade Theo, a worker from Nantes and a Maoist activist, who has previously been arrested on charges of having made a wall painting against former minister de Rugy, is currently on hunger strike since 22 July, as report various information sources from France. He claims recognition of his status as political prisoners, his transfer to Riom prison, and the release of political prisoners, particularly that of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah.

France’s environment minister François de Rugy last week announced the resignation from his post after being caught up in what came to be known internationally and in France as the “lobster-affair”. While the yellow vest movement put France in turmoil, the masses rebelled against their miserable conditions and turned their hatred against institutions and personnel of the state and capital, de Rugy was renovating his flat and giving lavishing banquets for his buddies in industry and politics on the dime of the working people of France.

Increasing in magnitude and strength, protests against the planned project to open up a new copper mine in the region of Arequipa, Peru, intensified significantly the last days. Following earlier protests, such as the actions from the 15th of July, now clashes with the police have intensified, as protesters again occupied major traffic arteries in the area, already causing supply shortage.

According to bourgeoisie reactionary press, the situation in the region of  Arequipa continues to be tense also in the 8th day of indefinite strike. Due to protesters having blocked the most important highways and connecting streets, since Monday gas stations, for example, face the situation of running out of supply, as protesters have successfully managed to block of all roads for some days.

The protest is directed against the so-called “Tía María” mining project planned by the US-capital backed Southern Copper Corporation (SCC) some years ago and it is not for the first time, that the struggle of the people to prevent it has taken sharp forms: As the peasants and people of the region are aware, how the proposed copper-mine will harm the basis for their livelihoods through pollution, seizure of lands, etc. they do not relent, although Police already before brutally tried to subdue to protest. Against the most recent attacks by the police to disperse the just protest of the people of Arequipa protesters remain combative and organized, mounting effective resistance against them and wounding for policemen in latest confrontations.