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Never before has a Women's Football World Cup attracted so much attention as the current one in Australia and New Zealand. The first tournament with 32 national teams is well on its way to becoming the sporting event of the year in Germany; already last year, the European Championship final of the DFB women against England was the most watched TV event of the year with 18 million viewers. The jerseys are already all sold out, and the DFB team's 6-0 opening victory over Morocco was watched by 5.61 million viewers on TV.

There is another wildcat strike at the Gräfenhausen freeway service station. As we have already reported in three different articles, around 60 truck drivers went on strike in mid-March at the Gräfenhausen freeway service station in southern Hessen to demand payment of their unpaid wages. The truck drivers, most of whom come from Georgia and Uzbekistan and were employed by the Polish Mazur Group, which operates several transport companies, were systematically deprived of their wages. In some cases, this involved wage theft amounting to 4000 euros. The Mazur group of Companies is known to drive among other things also orders for large monopoly corporations such as Siemens or Ikea.

We have received messages from Bochum and Essen with actions that have been carried out. In solidarity with those revolutionaries and rebels in France who now have to pay the price for their just struggle with arrests and jail, a mural and a painting were put up in these cities, which we document below:

n the next year the value added tax for meals should rise on 19 percent. This increasing of the tax hits mainly the gastronomy and the petit bourgeois in this field. The german hotel and restaurant association (DEHOGA) worries about big consequences, after a survey in the sector.

In a Hamburg workers' district, a painting has appeared to support the fights in France and in solidarity with the detained revolutionary and fighters. The published pictures have been sent to us.

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Comrade Fidencio Aldama, who was arrested in October 2016 and sentenced to 15 years in prison for a murder he did not commit, is now free and has been declared innocent by a federal court. Fidencio Aldama, who is a member of the indigenous Yaqui people and an opponent of the imperialist megaproject of the Sonora gas pipeline was imprisoned until July 15 of this year as part of the struggle of the community of Lomas de Bacum. The community, which has been particularly hard hit by the imperialist megaproject, is regularly subjected to attacks by groups paid to a subsidiary of the U.S. company Sempra Energy. Attacks in which members of the resistance have also been wounded, kidnapped and killed.

Current production figures show that since the beginning of the cyclical economic crisis of German imperialism in 2019, the major German automobile monopolies VW, Audi, BMW and Mercedes have produced a good half a million fewer passenger cars on their home continent from January to May 2023 than in the same period of 2019. This corresponds to a decrease of almost 20 percent over a period of four years. Mercedes is hitted particularly hard with a decline of around 30 percent.

In 2021 and 2022, reports by the WDR (West German Broadcasting) background magazine Sport inside revealed the conditions for coaches in many junior training centres of Bundesliga football clubs. Where the great talents are being groomed to become the stars of tomorrow, a system has taken hold in large parts of Germany that allows mini-jobbers to work for up to three times the time stipulated in their contracts.