DEM VOLKE DIENEN

We publish here an article from the anti-imperialist action ireland

Earlier this year, as part of a British directed effort to put pressure on the European Union, Loyalist paramilitaries began a campaign of rioting, destruction, and intimidation.

Back in October, many midwives in France started protesting and striking. The protests and especially the strikes are still going on, with interruptions, and more and more midwives all over the country are joining it.

Turkish police attacked a protest by revolutionary and democratic youth organisations in Ankara on 8th of November against the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the YÖK (Higher Education Council of Turkey), a body set up during military rule to give the state direct control over universities, and arrested 11 people, including three readers of the YDG (New Democratic Youth) media. The protesters fought back, chanting during the attack, "Universities belong to us and they will be liberated with us!" Especially with the disputes at Istanbul's Boğaziçi University, the struggle against state intervention in universities plays a central role for a large part of the youth in Turkey.

In the northern district of Essen, a working-class neighborhood characterized by migration and poverty on the outskirts of the city center, proletarian revolutionaries have carried out a mural painting with the slogan: "Devrim ve Parti Ekmetari Hüsyin Peken (Pala) Ölümsüzdür! in honor of Comrade Pala. The painting is on a soccer field, which is one of the busiest parts of the neighborhood.

We want to publish an inofficial translation of a text by the comrades of the FDLP-EC from Ecuador that was sent to us.

Finland

Punalippu reports that in Tampere an event was held on the situation of the League of Poor Peasants (LCP), condemning the attempts of the old Brazilian state to evict the poor peasants from the land. The event had high a good atmosphere and was marked by outrage against the old Brazilian state, and at the end of the event the song “Santa Elina É Dos Camponeses” was sung in a Finnish version.

After the death of comrade Pala (Hüseyin Peken) on November 3rd, aktivities commemorating the comrade already took place in Switzerland and in Turkey. Comrade

In the following we publish an article from "VND-Peru".