A secret operation made by the State of Israel on November 11 within the territory of Gaza resulted in a large-scale increase in tension in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Zionist troops infiltrated a few kilometers into the southern Gaza town of Khan Yunis and executed one of the leaders of the al-Qassam Brigades (Hamas armed wing), named Nour Baraka, 37. When perceived by the militants of the National Resistance group, the Israeli invading troops began the process of evacuation of the place leaving a blood trail: at least seven Palestinians were executed and several buildings were damaged. A Druze-Israeli lieutenant colonel involved in the operation was annihilated.

With the movement and the response exercise of the Palestinian forces, Israel has started an indiscriminate bombing of the entire Gaza Strip since the 12th, with destruction of hundreds of civilian homes, plantation areas, Academy of Applied Research at the University of Gaza, the headquarters of the Al-Aqsa TV and radio station of the Al Rahma commercial complex and an increase to 14 in the number of Palestinians executed, adding up to more than 30 injured so far.

This week, the new issue of the theoretical organ "El Maoista" was released, containing articles from comrades from Peru, Brasil, Ecuador, Germany and Austria. Surely there will be further translations such as into German or English in the future. For those who can not wait and are interested, the internet provides plenty of tools to get atleast a rough understanding of the content of the magazine.

In the following, we publish the second of the two recently published articles in English from the comrades over at Tjen Folket Media, this time on the question of the struggle for a genuine Communist Party in Norway:

Reconstruct the Communist Party of Norway!

In the following, we document a statment published by comrades of Tjen Folket Media in solidarity with the antifascist struggles:

Solidarity with militant antifascists!

Five antifascist were fined for disturbing the public peace. We send them our greetings in solidarity, and would also like to oppose those who point moralistic fingers at them.

We publish a translation of the declaration as well as a video of the comrades from Mexico:

To the proletariat and the workers of Mexico and the world
To the oppressed peoples and nations
To democratic and internationalist organizations
To the International Communist Movement

Current of the People Red Sun reveals that in the recent days our 22 comrades accused of the crimes of terrorism and carrying explosives of reserved use of the Mexican Army, who were imprisoned on June 7, 2015 in the City of Oaxaca, have been declared absolved. and prosecuted in federal criminal case 30/2015.

Last Tuesday the biggest “Anti-Terror-Practise” in the history of the German police was conducted in the downtown and harbour area of Hamburg. A total of 850 police forces participated in the deployment, part of it were 100 Special Forces among them the GSG9. Additionally 150 extras participated as victims of terror attacks played by police students and actors. The police did not announce the practise beforehand, allegedly to conduct it under realistic circumstances. The “Anti-Terror-Practise” had four different scenarios, the last one ended in an action movie like attitude with a Jet-Ski chase. Around 6 pm the whole rumpus ended and police president Ralf Martin Meyer presented himself satisfied. Of course the whole downtown area was affected by great obstructions of traffic until the end of the practise.

The Head of the German police union recently gave an interview regarding the new police laws in many parts of Germany, in which he endorsed the militarization which they represent but called for it to be further and for a unified police law in Germany. We want to use this as an opportunity to report about the militarization of the German police and to translate some news that were published on the German part of this website regarding this. During the first half of this year many German states proposed new police laws, all of which extend the tools the police has at its disposal against the masses.

In Baden-Wuerttemberg the proposal included the legal observtion of encrypted messages, the use of ankle monitors and the equiment of police with military weaponary, such as handgranades and assault rifles, which are allowed to be used against humans as soon as a leadin policeofficer condones it. Additionally the “prevential arrest” maximum duration is to be extended to one month, the maximum of police detention is to be extended to one week and if someone is found to be fitting the vage and arbitrary definition of “a potential risk” the police are allowed to employ ankle monitors or to conduct searches without any prove of any crime. Lower Saxony has a similar proposal, extending public surveilance and the maximum “prevential arrest” duration to 74days. Saxony follows in their footstepsand adds the possibility of declaring “controllareas” which are heavily surveilanced and in which the police are allowed to limit even fundamental rights, without even announcing these areas. In Bremen the city now employs a sort of secondary police force which is supposed to take over in some normal police tasks so that the police is able to concentrate on fighting against the justified rebellion and on terrorizing the masses on a regular basis. There are also plans for building a big police complex in the middle of the workers quater Gröpelingen. Bremerhafen police now have Tasers. In Berlin the police extended public surveilance, tested facial recogniction software, started empolying “mobile police station”, which are bigger police vehicles they spread around the city which are capable of making arrests independent of other police and are planning to build many small police stations across the city.

All of these are examples and the occupation of cities, while less devoloped than in oppressed nations, of the increasing of the increasing militarization of society the German imperialism is conducting as a part of its striving to devolop into a superpower. But in light of this development it would be wrong to be scared of this imperialist monster, we rather should look to the ongoing protests against these developments, like the demonstration in Hannover (http://www.demvolkedienen.org/index.php/en/t-brd-en/2628-action-for-comrade-ernesto-sernas-on-a-major-demonstration-against-the-new-lower-saxony-police-law), and have to keep in mind the quotes of the great Chairman Mao Tse-Tung: “All reactionaries are paper tigers. In appearance, the reactionaries are terrifying, but in reality, they are not so powerful. From a long-term point of view, it is not the reactionaries but the people who are powerful.“ And: “The reactionaries of every country are just such fools, Their persecution of the revolutionary people will only end in rousing the people to broader and fiercer revolution.“

The midterm-elections in the USA are over, and no big surprises took place. Some states have been won by the one, some by the other bourgeois reactionary party. We also share the evaluation of the Comrades of the Red Guards Austin: „The masses already know that bourgeois politics are a dead end; this is a great development which indicates good conditions for building the revolutionary movement.“