DEM VOLKE DIENEN

The Military police officers, aboard an armored vehicle - the "caveirão" -, made an operation in the Chacrinha favela, in Praça Seca, and executed three people, among them a young boy with autism. According to reports from the residents, the military police arrived early firing at the population on the street.

More than 50,000 protesters took to the streets of France again in the eighth major protest against the government of Emmanuel Macron and its anti-people measures on 5 January. The protests took place in several cities and assumed violent form, mainly in Paris, spreading through the poor districts.

The so-called "Lima Group," made up of governments from 13 Latin American countries, decided not to recognize the Venezuelan government of Nicolás Maduro, who takes office on January 10. The decision was taken at a meeting held on January 4. The current Foreign Minister of Bolsonaro military government, Ernesto Araújo, attended the meeting.

While the question of the “Brexit” still continues to be a focal point in the persisting political crisis in Britain, police and military are already preparing for what they consider the worst case scenario: a “hard border” within Ireland. In fear of what is to come, now plans have been put into motion to train almost 1.000 additional cops from England and Scotland for they deployment in Northern Ireland before the end of March.

The Taliban (or Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan), an armed organization that acts as part of the Afghan National Resistance, issued a report on the ongoing war of resistance in that country against the imperialist occupation led by US imperialism. The report on the progress of Mujahideen (combatants) and territorial control from the end of the year, translated into English and published on the official Taliban website on 31 December, is sub-entitled The Year of Collapse of Trump’s Strategy, signed by the Commission for Cultural Affairs of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.

On occasion of the current week of Martyrs of the Party and Revolution comrades of IKK published two videos commemorating two combatants of the TIKKO: Ferdi and Zilan. Both gave their live for the revolution through the People’s War led by the TKP/ML and are forever etched into the memory of the international proletariat. Both, as well as ten more combatants of the TIKKO died, when the Turkish army, gathering a massive amount of troops and special forces, attacked the region of Aliboğazı in Dersim in between the 24th and 28th of November 2016.

Henceforth, we mirror the translations of the Resolutions of the III. Meeting of Marxist-Leninist-Maoist Parties and Organisations in Europe in three additional languages: Italian, Turkish and Chinese. We are very happy to announce, that this means that the documents are hence available in ten different languages:

Italian:

Risoluzioni della III. Una riunione di partiti e organizzazioni di tendenza marxista-leninista-maoista in Europa
La risoluzione di difendere i prigionieri rivoluzionari politici e i prigionieri di guerra e quelli scomparsi dalla reazione
Risoluzione della solidarietà di classe con la guerra popolare in ogni parte del mondo

Turkish:

Marksist – Leninist – Maoist parti ve örgütlerin 3.Avrupa toplantısı deklerasyonu
Devrimci politik tutsakları, savaş tutsaklarını ve gericilik tarafından kayıp edilenleri savunmak için Deklarasyon
Dünya´daki Halk Savaşlarıyla Sınıf Dayanışması yükseltmek için Deklarasyon

Chinese:

关于第三次欧洲马列毛主义党派和组织会议的决议
保卫革命政治犯，战俘，和被反动派强行消失者的决议
与全世界的人民战争阶级团结的决议