DEM VOLKE DIENEN

Nine chosen people meet and decide how high the minimum wage should be. Three representatives of the bosses, three union officials, two scientists and a chairman - the SPD-affiliated lawyer Christiane Schönefeld - this is the minimum wage commission set up by the state. This exclusive circle then determines the wage development of over six million people. Around 1/4 of all jobs are based on minimum wages - about twice as many as in 2015 when the minimum wage was introduced.

Last weekend there was a lot going on in Freiburg. On Friday the 16.06 there was to be a spontaneous hip hop concert in the city garden. Afterwards, on Saturday 17.06, there was a big night dance demonstration in which a public square was briefly occupied.

On 19th of June, the Day of Heroism, the Red League called for a rally in Bremerhaven's Goethe quarter under the slogan "Against the wave of inflation and militarism".

On June 18, the 2nd annual soccer tournament in memory of the German-Algerian worker Adel B. was held in the working-class district Altendorf in Essen, NRW. Below we would like to share a report with pictures that we received from comrades from the Initiative Justice for Adel and the Red League, who jointly organized the tournament this year.

German imperialism is working on various crisis management strategies. One of them is immigration.

On Sunday, June 18, this year's football tournament in memory of the German-Algerian worker Adel B., who was murdered by the police in 2019, will take place in Essen-Altendorf for the second time already. The tournament was launched and organized for the first time last year by the Initiative Justice for Adel and this year is also supported by the newly founded Red League. In the following we would like to share with you some impressions from the mobilization that have been sent to us by the comrades.

Three estimates were made and still the final result was a minus. Again. The gross domestic product in the euro zone fell by 0.1 percent compared to the previous quarter, Eurostat announced last Thursday. In the fourth quarter of 2022, the euro economy had also shrunk by 0.1 percent. Here, too, the data were revised after stagnation had previously been identified. Thus, the entire eurozone is in a "technical recession," following the dominant imperialist power of the EU.

Norway

Comrades from Tjen Folket Media report that a demonstration against the NATO top meeting and Jan Stoltenberg, the Norwegian General Secretary of NATO, took place in Oslo on May 31st. The demonstration was organised by the organisations ”Stop NATO” and ”The Peace Initiative”. Many other organisations like Rødt Oslo, Motmakt, Kampkomiteen, Internasjonal kvinneliga for fred and frihet, Fredsbevegelsen på Nesodden, Oslo SU, KPML, Oslo RU, NKP, Ungkommunistene, Antikrigsinitiativet and Kvinnefronten were also connected to the demonstration.