DEM VOLKE DIENEN

We publish this good article by maoists from the United States. Even though we don't agree in all standpoints (regarding the question of the PKK read the document "Regarding the stance of the anti-imperialists on the PKK"), it still is an article worth reading:

One More Time for Those in the Back . . .

On the 14th of January the mass protests that swept over Tunisia in 2011 will have their 7th anniversary. Bourgeois media back then coined the phrase "Arab spring" and exclaimed Tunisia would hence be a "democracy". However, nothing much has since changed its semi-feudal, semi-colonial character and the fact that bureaucratic capitalism still continues to thrive. The people are not better off and are fed up with the illusions spread by the governmental figureheads – this much became very clear in the mass protests and riots that erupted all over the country this week.

On the 7th of January up to 5000 people took part in the annual commemoration  of Oury Jalloh in Dessau. This year was the thirteenth year after the murder against Oury Jalloh in German police custody since 2005. Again the demonstration was not a pure memorial for the life that has been taken thirteen years ago. The demonstration – that not only was the strongest ever in terms of participant numbers – marked again and even stronger a signal in the struggle against the imperialist chauvinism of the FRG and its repressive organs, from police to justice, who since the day of the murder try to cover things up, justify and try to criminalise activists.

Comrades of the Red Women Committee yesterday published photos of an action made to commemorate the comrade Remís Carla. Remís was a militant of the Revolutionary Popular Students Movement and the Revolutionary Popular Students Movement who was found dead on the 23th of December. More than 300 people took part in her funeral, commemorating the life of an outstanding comrade who is dearly missed.

We document this translation of the call for the annual LLL-Demonstration:

This January 2018 the murder of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg marks its 100^th anniversary. 100 years ago they already waged a struggle against capitalism in its highest form, Imperialism. They struggled against exploitation and oppression of billions on the whole world and for the establishment of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. They struggled to make an end to the reign of a small hand full of monopoly capitalists, which divide the world among them. And they struggled for a word, in which the workers and peasants could really take their fate in their own hands, led by the Communist Party. They struggled for Socialism as a stage on the way to Communism.

2017 has been a bad year for the reactionary forces in Chhattisgarh. In their war against the people, they weren't able to increase the number of Maoist (or alleged Maoists) they were able to kill, while the amount of personal lost on the other hand went up. Not only were the revolutionary forces able to inflict greater losses in Chhattisgarh, they were also able to make great leaps in other parts of the country.

Between November 24 to 27, in Humaita, Amazonas state, the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA) unleashed the "Thin Gold" Operation confiscating and destroying working tools and 37 rafts used by gold prospectors in Madera river. as a response, the masses of gold prospectors organized a demonstration in November 27 afternoon. The masses attacked the IBAMA office, damaged some of their vehicles and threw stones in IBAMA´s functionaries homes. The same day, the military police and the National Force engaged in conflicts with the demonstrators. Also a boat from IBAMA was burned in the morning of November 28.

In a four day long protest starting the 22th of December, more then ten thousand people in the city of Jerada demanded justice and compensation for two miners killed in a mine collapse. After forcing these workers into illegality, the Moroccan Government attempted to bury the bodies quietly and to avoid taking their responsibility in the two young mans deaths.