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Finland

As the reactionary municipality elections in Finland are coming closer, the Maoist Committee in Finland has published a statement for the boycott of these reactionary bourgeois elections: ELECTIONS, NO! REVOLUTION, YES! Published on Punalippu it states that the more than 100-year old crisis of bourgeois democracy is deepening and as imperialism deteriorates, the consciousness of the masses increases.

Here we publish a contribution of the TKP/ML for the discussion for the United International Maoist Conference. The Original can be found here: https://www.tkpml1.net/en/2022/01/07/tkp-mls-assessment-of-the-united-international-maoist-conference-uimc-declaration/

Things continue to go downhill for the Lloyd shipyard in Bremerhaven. We have already reported in the past on the traditional company, which has been threatened with closure for over a year now. The work of more than 300 colleagues is at stake.

We publish here an unofficial translation of an article from the newspaperof our comrades in Brazil, A Nova Democracia.

On 12 January 2022, the federal cabinet voted in favour of extending the so-called anti-IS mission of the German armed forces in Iraq. This decision follows a joint letter from Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht (SPD) and Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (Greens) to the parliamentary group leaders in the Bundestag, which was submitted earlier this week. Thus, the mission is to be extended until the end of October this year. The Greens also voted in favour of the mission, although they were against it when the Iraq mission was extended last year. Now in government, they united behind the extension of the mission, which was proposed by Foreign Minister and Green Party leader Baerbock.

On Thursday the 13th of January, about75% of all teachers across France took to the streets to protest against the current Corona rules in schools. With so many teachers taking part in the strike, about half of all schools nationwide remained closed. Students and parents also vented their anger at the demonstrations and supported the strike.

In Dagyeniköy in the municipality of Germencik in western Turkey, mining of nitrile is to be carried out on land cultivated by peasants, for which exploratory drilling has recently been initiated by the company Mine Exploration and Testing (MTA). The mining of the highly toxic salts threatens the soil and its fertility, and thus the economy of the peasants.

This Sunday, on the occasion of the 103rd anniversary of the assassination of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, the founders of the Communist Party of Germany, by soldiers with orders from their political leadership in 1919, well over 2000 people gathered to commemorate these leaders - along with the great Lenin.