DEM VOLKE DIENEN

Last Monday, a large anti-militarist demonstration took place in downtown Hamburg.

A new study by the Hans Böckler Foundation published last week confirms the city of Bremerhaven as a stronghold of poverty. The study measures the average per capita income in all independent cities and districts in the FRG. There are 401 of them in total, Bremerhaven lands in 398th place. With an annual income of about 18,500 euros per capita, Bremerhaven comes off among the worst.

So while people in Bremerhaven earn an average of 18,500 euros a year, the picture is quite different in other districts. Especially in the south of the Federal Republic, people's incomes are higher. The front-runner is Heilbronn in Baden-Württemberg, where the average income is over 42,000 euros. The national average is 23,706 euros.

In the following we want to give a short brief on the armed actions in People´s War in India in the recent days, suspected carried out by the People´s Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA) under the leadership off the Communist Party oh India (Maoist) [CPI(Maoist)].

In the following we re-share a document of the Red Fraction of the Communist Party of Chile in an unofficial and preliminary translation, which was previously published on Communist International (CI-IC.org).

On May 15, there are state elections in NRW. Since the beginning of the month, all bourgeois parties have been able to hang and distribute their election propaganda in the neighborhoods. However, the posters, which are mostly empty of content, are hardly well received in the neighborhoods. After few hours already the first posters were again removed.

The Mexican comrades of Sol Rojo recently published pictures of paintings and dazibaos with the slogans "ABAJO LA GUERRA IMPERIALISTA! VIVA LA GUERRA POPULAR! - which translates into English as "DOWN WITH IMPERIALIST WAR! LONG LIVE PEOPLES WAR! - means.

In recent weeks, various media have reported on massacres in the areas around Kyiv. Videos show dead bodies lying on the streets in towns around Kyiv, many with their hands tied. These areas were previously controlled by the Russian army and the dead are residents of the Kiev suburbs who were executed.

After German EU Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen went to Ukraine's Butsha last week to see the effects of the war for herself, she fuelled the Ukrainian government's hopes of quickly joining the EU.