DEM VOLKE DIENEN

2022 marks the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the Communist Party of Turkey / Marxist-Leninist. Founded in 1972 by Comrade Ibrahim Kaypakkaya, the TKP/ML is leading the People’s War that is unfolding in Turkey, which is a shining beacon for the oppressed and exploited all over the world. To celebrate this 50th anniversary and to express their support for the ongoing New Democratic Revolution in Turkey on occasion of the anniversary of the death of its founder about 350 people came together yesterday in Stuttgart.

As we reported earlier, the Berlin police had banned all demonstrations on Nakba Day.

About a thousand peasants from Cotabambas occupy mines. Photo: Ángela Ponce

Peasants in the department of Apurímac, Cotabambas region, are fighting a fierce battle for the return of their land taken from them by the Chinese imperialist mining company MMG in the Las Bambas and Chalcobamba mines. In total, about a thousand peasants are employed in the two mines. More than 50 people were injured, including peasants, police and security forces, most of them wounded. The crowds attacked a radioSTATION and during a demonstration two peasants were shot dead by carabineros.

The peasants occupied the land that belonged to them on 14 April. Since then they have been subjected to repression by the police and the army of the reactionary government of Pedro Castillo, as well as by private security forces hired by the mining company. The more than 500 peasant families of Cotabambas were evicted from their land 10 years ago and the mining company MMG has not paid the peasants any of the money owed to date.

More than 676 police officers from the Apurimac region have been deployed, 200 military personnel and others have been called to the region. The communities of Challhuahuacho and Coyllurqui, where the two mines are located, are in a state of emergency. On 3 April, amid the clashes, the facilities of the regional radio station Cotabambas and the antennas located on the site were attacked with bombs and peasant fighters set fire to them.

A radio antenna is set on fire by peasant fighters. Photo: Radio Surfhuy

THE COMMUNITIES OF CHALLHUAHUACHO AND COYLLURQUI IN TURMOIL!

The families of Huancuire are resisting eviction. Photo: GEC

The community of Challhuahuacho has been in turmoil since the families occupied the land of the mining company. The peasants of this village have been demonstrating and resisting the brutal repression by the police. During the state of emergency declared by Castillo, police patrol the streets under curfew from 7.30pm and the police station is under increased surveillance.

Another 500 peasants who had taken over the Chalcobamba mine in the municipality of Coyllurqui in Huancuire, also in Cotabambas, resisted the eviction with stones and slingshots and set fire to the hill behind the mine site.

Shack set on fire at Las Bambas mine. Photo: GEC

THE OPPORTUNIST GOVERNMENT CANNOT HOLD BACK THE ANGER OF THE MASSES

The government of counterrevolutionary opportunist Pedro Castillo asked for a "dialogue" with the peasants on 27 April and was rejected by the families. For while the families were initially waiting for the Minister of Energy and Mines, they were brutally attacked by the police.

The representative of the local anti-mining organisation Fuera bamba then said: "Yesterday Las Bambas declared war on us and attacked us. They massacred us because they took us by surprise. There is no dialogue between the communities. We are wounded by the government's betrayal. I can't do anything anymore, I can't control the community, which is determined to do everything to recover its land," said Edison Vargas, president of Fuera Bamba.

A group of community members took up positions on four sides to surround the mine. In the Manantiales, Bocamina, Yaveropampa, Bravo 50 and Takiruta Alta sectors. "We sleep on the hills, vigilant, we will not move, we will give our lives if necessary," said the representative of the masses.

The masses were attacked several times with tear gas by the police and did not give up their occupation.

PEDRO CASTILLO: EXECUTIONER OF THE PERUVIAN PEOPLE

Since the beginning of his government, the Rondeiro* Pedro Castillo has carried out the worst tasks of Peruvian reaction against the people in the service of US imperialism. In October, his government called for military intervention against a peasant uprising against the mining monopolies and big landowners. In March 2022, the Peruvian Constitutional Court, with his consent, ordered the release of the genocidal ex-president Fujimori. A month later, he again imposed a state of emergency to suppress a large general strike by Peruvian workers, peasants and employees against the rising prices of fuel and basic foodstuffs.

And the most heinous of his crimes was that immediately after taking office as president in 2021, on 11 September 2021, he had the leader of the Peruvian Communist Party and the Peruvian Revolution, Gonzalo, assassinated by the Peruvian Navy on the orders of the CIA (at the behest of Yankee imperialism) and with the active collaboration of the traitors of the revisionist and capitulationist right opportunist line (ROL), led by the rat "Miriam". The ROL supported the Rondero Pedro Castillo, so that months later he carried out the cowardly assassination of Chairman Gonzalo. The ROL has collaborated in the assassination of Chairman Gonzalo before and has always tried - and is now trying harder - to speak on his behalf in order to disprove the all-powerful Gonzalo Thought, to discredit him and thus liquidate the People's War and deal a fatal blow to the Peruvian revolution and Maoism. So far, the traitors to Chairman Gonzalo have not succeeded.

Notes:

*The Rondas Campesinas were a counter-revolutionary group that patrolled the countryside and were particularly active in the 1980s when they played a role in the struggle against the Peruvian Communist Party (PCP).

On Thursday, 12 May, more than 400 kindergarten workers from Bremen gathered in the Wallanlagen for a warning strike called by the ver.di trade union.

The demands were mainly aimed at reducing the workload of the staff, as the state does not care about the situation of educators, assistants, etc. and keeps the costs for the day care of almost 4 million children in Germany as low as possible, while it promises support to the big companies and pumps huge sums into war armament. According to various estimates, there will be a "shortage of skilled workers" in the day-care sector of 230,000 to 300,000 employees (!) in the next few years - the ones who are still there and stay will have to shoulder the burden. Almost 20 per cent of the 2300 workers employed by KiTa Bremen are a sign of the workforce's willingness to fight against these unacceptable conditions. On a large meadow, somewhat away from the eyes of the public, the forms of action, however, did not coincide with this willingness to fight, but rather gave the warning strike more the expression of a relaxed sit-in and gave the impression of having a negative effect on the willingness to fight with which the day-care centre workers had come. That is why a banner of the Red Women's Committee Bremen, which hung over the assembly during the whole action, also formulated the demand for a militant trade union.

The action in these times of war was also linked to the rejection of the war in Ukraine and especially the militarisation led by German imperialism. Thus, the demand not to give the 100 billion special funds to the Bundeswehr but to give enough to the education sector was not only formulated on the said banner but also by participants of the rally on self-made signs.(1)

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A "Tarifvertrag" regulates relations between employers and employees and is a collective agreement. It contains specifications for individual employment contracts. These specifications are binding on employers and regulate a "fair" wage for the worker's activity and regulate working conditions.
According to section 1 (1) TVG, "the Tarifvertrag regulates the rights and obligations of the parties to the Tarifvertrag and contains legal norms which can regulate the content, conclusion and termination of employment relationships as well as operational and works constitutional issues."
An equivalent to the "Tarifvertrag" in other countries is the so-called collective agreement.

According to the bourgeois press, an improvised explosive device was detonated on the eve of the local elections in the Milanchowk district of Butwal, Nepal.

In addition to the activities from Helsinki in the previous Nordic Report, there have been reports released on the First of May in Tampere. In weeks up til the First of May, posters were hanged against NATO and Nordic military co-operation with the slogans from the joint Finnish-Norwegian statement, as well as posters mobilising for the First of May.

Next Sunday, state elections will be held in North Rhine-Westphalia. The SPD and CDU candidates are neck and neck and it is uncertain who will win this election. What is certain, however, is the fact that the elections are rejected by a large part.

Following the assassination of Palestinian journalist ShireenAbuAkleh of AL Jazeera, thousands poured into the Palestinian capital Jerusalem to take part in a memorial march. AbuAkleh was killed by Israeli military forces on 11 May while covering an army raid in the Zionist-occupied West Bank.