DEM VOLKE DIENEN

It was published yesterday and is a poem of Guto Gushek.

Excerpt:

"the death of a gray winter,
which brings a new sunshine behind the mountains;
the death of large and robust trees,
whose sap will become root
of a radiant and bright future! -" 

In the late afternoon of the 27th of July, a large demonstration took place in the Pimentas neighborhood, on the outskirts of Guarulhos. It took place during the National Meeting of Pedagogy Students (Encontro Nacional de Estudantes de Pedagogia – ENEPe), as a way of demonstrating the combativeness of the event and the dissatisfaction of all present against the attacks on workers, peasants, students and youth by the old Brazilian state.

The students gathered at the entrance to the Federal University of São Paulo (Unifesp) and marched through the streets, chanting slogans, playing drums and raising flags. Among the movements present were the National Pedagogy Student Executive (Executiva Nacional de Estudantes de Pedagogia – ExNEPe), the Revolutionary People's Student Movement (Movimento Estudantil Popular Revolucionário – MEPR), the Red Unit - Revolutionary Youth League (Unidade Vermelha – Liga da Juventude Revolucionária – UV-LJR), People's Dawn (Alvorada do Povo – AP), the Fagulha Movement and Popular Brigades.

We publish this english translation of the article "Zum Verständnis des Proletarischen Feminismus" from KLASSENSTANDPUNKT #13:

In the past years, proletarian feminism has gained importance within the development of the revolutionary movement in the FRG, in the German-speaking area and even within other imperialist countries. Proletarian feminism has filled a space in those countries, which was previously occupied through and through by bourgeois-feminism and petite-bourgeois-feminism, also within organizations and groups with revolutionary claims. The development and spreading of proletarian feminism within the revolutionary movement was, in short, rapid within the last years. Up to a point where only the most ignorant people could avoid a statement on this topic. But with this fast development, there were appearing, and are appearing even more today, ideological deviations, which are masquerading as proletarian feminism or are trying to be an opposing pole, to be “an own development”. They all have one thing in common: they are attempts of the bourgeoisie to make proletarian feminism, as an integral part of Marxism, a perversion of itself, attempts to defuse this weapon of the revolutionary women’s movement and the whole proletariat. Just like the bourgeoisie always tries with the ideology of the proletariat, this consequently only means one thing: revisionism. The people who carry out this charlatanry with proletarian feminism have one thing in common: they have, in the best case, an inadequate understanding of neither the proletariat, of feminism and of Marxism. This is why we need to devote ourselves to these questions.

We are filled with joy for being abled to publish this english translation of the Article "Acerca del Pensamiento de Lenin" from the magazine "El Maoísta" Issue 2. We once again want to mention the english translation of another article of said issue: "Lenin and the Militarized Communist Party".

Proletarians of all countries, unite!

Regarding the thought of Lenin¹

There is dogmatic Marxism and creative Marxism. I stand by the latter.
- Stalin -

In the current document, we tried to show how the thought of Lenin developed, from guiding thought of the Russian revolution to Leninism, the second stage of the development of Marxism. Some might say, that such an effort is unnecessary and only an historical interest, but we think that such persons are wrong, because the correct comprehension of what a guiding thought is, is an issue of live and death of the communists of the world, of victory and defeat.

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: