DEM VOLKE DIENEN

Comrades of the Unidade Vermelha - Liga da Juventude, young revolutionary comrades from Brazil, this week launched their new website on the the very same day as the National Combative Student’s Day. We wholeheartedly congratulate the comrades for their efforts on their new website that we gladly link to: http://www.unidadevermelha.com

Each year on the 29th of March, people from the poor neighborhoods of Santiago de Chile (and especially its working class youth) commemorate the murder of Rafael and his brother Eduardo Vergara Toledo by the hands of the police during a demonstration against the Pinochet regime 1985 on what came to be known as the Day of the Young Combatant. On this day, barricades sometimes burn from dust till dawn and the polices has to fear for their lives.

The Munduruku indigenous people and the riverine communities have made a series of demonstrations against the project of construction of hydroelectric plants along the Cupari river in the municipality of Rurópolis in Pará.

Three days ago the Turkish police raided the Bogazici University in Istanbul. After Tayyip Erdogan said in a speech, that he wouldn’t accept communists at the University they arrived on campus around 06:00 in the morning with several units. They detained several students and took a total of seven students in custody, accusing three of them of being part in the “Community of the Marxist Idea”. It is stated that the police has a detention list covering eight more people.

FACE PIÑERA WITH CLASSIST ORGANIZATION

We live in stormy times: the last crisis of Yankee imperialism is sharpened every day, engaged in all sorts of wars in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Latin America und even in Europe, deepening even more shamelessly the plunder in the whole world.

In Latin America it is specified, among other things, with the cut of rights and the privatization policies propelled today by governments such as the ones of Macri, Kuzcinsky und Temer, sthe last one responsible for unleashing a true reactionary civil war in Rio de Janeiro.

In our country, in the last March 11, the Piñera will assume the government ready to apply the mandates of Yankee imperialism, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, the same measures of the "Washington Consensus" applied by Pinochet, and developed by Concertação – New Majority.

Just look at its future Cabinet of Ministers to prove it: Varela in education, a stubborn advocate of paid education and privatization; Antonio Walker in agriculture, a rancid landlord who proposed to suppress the right to strike of the agricultural workers during harvest time; and José Ramón Valente in economy, a Chicago Boys fundamentalist.

The promises of investment, economic growth, and other pranks that compose their "Better Times" are nothing more than the development of the absolute national subjugation plan to the looting of Yankee imperialism and the big bourgeoisie.

In this context of reactionarization, the other forces of the old State, the New Majority and the Broad Front in the "opposition", will try to show themselves as the only alternative, also calling to go to the streets, but we must not confuse: their sole objective is to return to their posts in the old state, to enrich their pockets once there, with super salaries between 6 and 20 million, and those of the class they represent: the big bourgeoisie and the landlords, dressed in the color they wear.

This was maked by fire to the Mapuche people, victims of a severe repression, being the government of Bachelet the one that imprisoned more Mapuche people, and that made the most absurd police assemblage in decades, the failed "Operation Hurricane".

That is why it is necessary to unmask these bourgeois opportunists, not letting any space for them to ride on the struggles of the people, and to raise with more force the true path of liberation, the New Democracy Revolution.

Facing this more openly reactionary government we must further develop popular protest for the rights of the people and against the high cost of living.

In the student movement, it is increasingly necessary to raise a front for free public education which struggles against the privatization policies of the World Bank and to achieve true gratuity.

Therefore, it is necessary to develop in our work the classist line in the student movement, being shaping all types of mass organizations in this line the central concern today, that is, to struggle in order for the masses to defend the classist line in their Students Centers, Federations, Assemblies, Coordinations, Committees, Movements, etc.

Only by applying these objectives will we be able to make the classist line become a material force and thus transform the concrete reality of the millions of students in the country.

In this task, the FERP, applying its agreements, reinforced its ties with the Mapuche struggle, carrying out some Popular Support Brigades in a Mapuche Community in Struggle this summer; continues to organize the fight against the raise of prices in public transport; organizing the students with the celebration of the 8 of March under the slogan Unleash the fury of women as a powerful weapon for the revolution !; and by preparing the popular protest of the Young Combatant's Day on March 29, upholding with struggle the youth who watered the revolution with their precious blood.

Also with this objective we develop the scientific analysis of Chilean education: Bureaucratic Capitalism in Education, a thesis that we apply based on the most advanced ideology of today's proletariat, Maoism.

Unlike the electioneering ones, the FERP does not promise, but where the FERP goes there is transformation, because wherever we are, we hoist high the resplendent red flag raised for the first time by the great Karl Marx 170 years ago with the publication of the Communist Manifesto and which announces to the proletarians of the world: It is right to rebel!

On March 19, 2018, comrade Javier López Martinez, an outstanding comrade and leader of the comrades of Current Sol Rojo, who passed away in Mexico. In his honour, Communist militants in the FRG have made his fight their own! We document in the following first pictures of the action and the complete translation of the statement published by the Comrades in Mexico:

“From now on, when anyone in our ranks who has done some useful work dies, be he soldier or cook, we should have a funeral ceremony and a memorial meeting in his honour.” – Chairman Mao Tse Tung, Serve the People, 8 September 1944

With deep sorrow we inform the working class and the people of Oaxaca, Mexico and the world that a very special militant for our organization has passed away.

Hundreds of immigrants and Spanish youths protested violently on the streets of central Madrid, capital of Spain, in repudiation of the death of a 35-year-old Senegalese immigrant, which happened on 15 March. Mmame Mbage, who had been in Spain for 14 years, apparently had a heart attack due to a police chase. Demonstrators held more than four hours of protests that went throught the night of March 16, after which three bank agencies and also police vehicles were destroyed. There were burning barricades of the demonstrators through the streets. Facing the police with sticks and stones, the protest left at least 10 repression agents injured. Even by using rubber bullets the repression was not able to hold the protest and six young Spanish youth were detained.

Big demonstration of peasants

On March 6th, more than 35.000 peasants marched for 170 km from Maharashtra region to Mumbai. They reached Mumbai after 6 days bringing their demands and red flags with the hammer and sickle along the way. They were promised the fulfilment of 80% of their demands by the goverment.