DEM VOLKE DIENEN

On March 31, local elections were held in Turkey in which over 61 million people were called to vote for mayors, local politicians and village heads. In the press of the imperialist states in the Western hemisphere, this election is celebrated as a great victory for "democracy" in Turkey and worldwide. Some media are even heralding the end of Erdogan's "one-man rule".The reason for this is the victory of the Kemalist-social democratic "opposition party" CHP with 37.77% of the vote compared to the AK Party of the incumbent president and genocide-monger Erdogan, which won a total of 35.49% of the vote. In a schematic comparison with the last local elections, the numbers may suggest that Erdogan and his AKP are losing ground. After all, the AKP won a total of 42.50 percent of the vote in the last local elections in 2019, while the Kemalists only won 29.60 percent of the vote.

Graffiti is something we are all familiar with. You can see it on every corner in every city. The number of illegally applied tags and graffiti is increasing in various places in Baden Württemberg. The various cities take actions against these activities with using different methods.

March 13:
In the well-known Bijapur district of the Indian state of Chhattisgarh, a gun battle broke out between members of the People's Liberation Guerrilla Army of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) and members of the reactionary district police and special forces. The gun battle was preceded by an anti-Maoist search operation by the reactionary police forces of the old Indian state. The search operation of the reactionary police forces was successfully interrupted by the Maoist guerrillas. According to reports from police circles, an uninvolved woman was injured by stray bullets during the clash. Since the police themselves do not blame the Maoist fighters, the report can be interpreted to mean that the woman was injured by police gunfire.

In the town of Solingen near the North Rhine-Westphalian state capital of Düsseldorf, an arson attack was carried out on Monday night on an apartment building in which mainly Muslim Bulgarians with Turkish roots lived. The arson attack killed an entire family and seriously injured nine other people. The dead were a couple aged 28 and 29, their three-year-old child and a five-month-old baby. The remaining nine seriously injured people are also Bulgarian citizens.

An event recently took place in Baden-Württemberg with the local Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann. This event was particularly noticeable because of the enormous police presence that could be seen all around. Now about a month later, the costs of this police operation has become public.

We have often reported on the imperialist megaproject of the Interoceanic Corridor on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. This is an industrial and logistics project consisting of a rail link in the southern isthmus of Mexico, which connects the Pacific and Atlantic oceans and is to be used for the transportation of goods. On the other hand, a federal highway, ten industrial parks and a gas pipeline are being built parallel to the rail link. A central component of the whole project is that both the Atlantic port of Coatzacoalcos and the Pacific port of Salina Cruz are to be expanded into modern industrial ports with a multiplication of their current container capacities. This project, centred around the rail link, is rounded off by the militarization of the entire region by the old Mexican state.

The green-black state government of the CDU and the Greens has promised parents and children in North Rhine-Westphalia better all-day care at elementary school. The state government had planned a law that would guarantee a secure entitlement to all-day care in schools. This law would not only relieve the burden on parents, especially mothers, and enable them to better reconcile paid work and child care or have a little more free time in their stressful everyday lives, but would also guarantee children better educational and extracurricular support. In general, the law would also make a positive contribution to the otherwise increasingly overburdened school system.

A broad and lively campaign is currently unfolding in Mexico to boycott the upcoming presidential elections of the old Mexican state, which will take place on June 2. The comrades of the democratic and revolutionary website Mural Periodico write in a report on the election boycott activities about the special nature of the Mexican election campaign.