DEM VOLKE DIENEN

We publish this joint declaration of the Red Guards Collectives from the USA, which was sent to us:

Regarding the class combat of left and right lines in Germany and the incidents following May 1, 2018

It is the responsibility of revolutionaries all over the world to analyze contending ideological lines as internationalists, and we must take the position of combating centrism and rightism. In regard to the events that transpired on May 1, 2018, and the subsequent numerous statements, we have remained silent for too long. For this we are self-critical and seek to rectify this matter by staying abreast of the important struggles going on in the International Communist Movement and making our support clear and timely. In short we must learn to separate the revolutionaries from the revisionists and firmly support the revolutionaries. Both sides have made their documents available online for months, and it is through the careful study of these documents that we come to the following positions:

We publish an english translation of a report of Partizan:

In support of the actions for Igor Mendes and the 23 activists, Partizan in Athens/Greece executed a solidarity action in the football game of AEK Athens against Galatasaray, which took place on the 31.07.2018. Igor Mendes was one of the participants in the student- and workers protest against the World Cup spectacle 2013 in Brazil. For Partizan he is our comrade and son of the Brazilian proletariat, which struggles bravely and decided for the interests of the oppressed peoples and the proletariat. He got sentenced for years of prison by the reactionary and rotten Brazilian State. A group of Partizan in Europe put up a banner for the game which took place in the Olympia stadium with the slogan „Free Igor Mendes! Fighting is not a crime!“ The group of Partizan was greeted by thousands of the fans in the so called goal-tribune with applause and antifascist slogans.

The group also put up a banner in Greek language with annotations to the fire in Greece in which dozens of Greek people died. On the banner it was written „This fire is in our hearts, our hearts are in struggle!“ The activist of Partizan resisted some reactionary supporter groups and got the support of antifascist fans in the organisation of these actions. The banner for Igor Mendes was put up in the stadium and the actions finished shortly before the end of the game. Partizan also announced they will organise more actions in solidarity with Igor Mendes and the 23 Activists and to increase the international solidarity with other befriended revolutionary democratic organisations.

Partizan

We share these images of paintings in support of Igor Mendes and the 23 sentenced activists:

We forward the english translation of an article of A Nova Democracia, written by Fausto Arruda, on the current situation on Brazil.

We publish this communique of the Red Flag Collective of Finland:

To our friends in Finland and in the international communist movement

The Red Flag Collective has held a successful reorganizing meeting, through which our organization has been cast anew. The meeting was held because the one and half year since the initiation of our activities has demonstrated the need to renew our organization as well as to sharpen our line and present it unified.

The meeting adopted a temporary program which for the first time uniformly defines our ideological basis, which is Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, and defines the situation and tasks internationally and in Finland. Our organization upholds this program as a most valuable guide for Finnish communists, and it orients our work as a whole, the work in which the gained development creates preconditions to uplift the program to an even higher level.

We publish this message which was sent to us from Denmark:

ACTION OF SOLIDARITY WITH IGOR MENDES AND »THE 23«

The action to support Igor Mendes and »the 23«, who have received prison in Brazil because of their heroic and brave struggle against the wastefulness of the old and rotten-to-the-core Brazilian state under the FIFA World Cup of 2014, was carried out by activists from Red Study Circle under the political leadership of »Gnisten« [The Spark]. The action has improved the practical level of the activists, serving the international campaign to support Igor Mendes and »the 23«.

We share an image which comrades in Sweden created in solidarity with Igor Mendes:

Igor Mendes is a young Communist from Brazil recently arrested for participating in the World Cup 2014 protests held in Brazil. There is an international campaign for defense for this companion. The picture shows a painting done in Rinkeby in Stockholm.

We publish this declaration of the Red Guards Austin in solidarity with Igor Mendes:

Igor Mendes, son of the Brazilian people, fighter of the international proletariat, is not alone!
a slogan painted on the walls of proletarian neighborhoods all over the world.

Who is Igor Mendes and why do we support him?