Food delivery service Gorillas has announced it will lay off 300 workers, mostly in Berlin.

The left-wing musician Ihsan Cibelik was arrested on May 16 along with two other turkish leftists. They are accused of allegedly being members of DHKP-C. We received pictures of graffiti demanding Ihsan's freedom.

Reports of racial profiling, migrants being racially insulted and beaten up by the cops and in some cases even murdered, all this is unfortunately not uncommon. Even if the government often tries to present it differently, racist police violence is everyday life in Germany.

Students in Greece have been fighting for over a year against a law passed by the reactionary government to station cops on university campuses. The law states that up to 1000 guards may be deployed on university campuses. These guards are to be directly subordinated to the police.

We publish a press release of the Committee for the Defence and Release of Dr. G. N, Saibaba of 26 May 2022.

Immediately resolve the hunger strike Demands of Dr. G.N. Saibaba and save his life in the jail

Once again, the opportunist government of Chile, led by Gabriel Boric, deployed the military and imposed a state of emergency in the Araucanía, the Mapuche territory in Chile. The military has thus been in control in the area since 17 May, basic fundamental rights have been suspended and laws suspended. According to the Chilean Minister of the Interior, Izkia Siches, the reason for the deployment of the military and the declared state of emergency is the safety of the citizens in the area.

The police in North Rhine-Westphalia wants to develop a program for super-recognizers and is looking specifically in the six cities of Dortmund, Essen, Bochum, Düsseldorf, Cologne and Siegen-Wittgenstein among the officers working there for this type of people. When it comes to surveillance, the focus is not on high-tech, as is usually the case with robot dogs, but on unique skills.

Even when large parts of the "Corona measures" were lifted at the beginning of April, one thing remained: The relaxed rules in the application of short-time work justified by the pandemic. The German Bundestag extended the so-called facilitated short-time allowance until 30 June 2022. In concrete terms, this means that the maximum period of entitlement to short-time allowance has been extended from 24 to 28 months. In addition, it is sufficient if at least ten percent of employees are affected by work loss, although according to actual legislation at least one third of a company's workforce must be affected.