Welcome! Newsletter number 63.
One of them months with not too much to report. Excuse: I’ve mainly been working on two books, which will be announced this spring. (Being as superstitious as I am, I can’t say much more about them before that happens.)
I was, however, able to write a review about publications related to Rojava. They have been released by our favorite radical distro and publishing outfit Active. (If you already know everything you need to know about Rojava, you’ll certainly find other titles of interest in their catalog!)
I did some sports writing for junge Welt, not least because the Winter Olympics took place last month: Olympics preview, Olympics opening ceremony, Lindsey Vonn drama, Emma Aicher portrait, Olympics review. I even did a junge Welt piece not about sports, looking at Denmark’s immigration policies.
Even though I am no longer the union’s general secretary, I still carry out duties, for example representing the SAC at the congress of our sister organization in Poland, Inicjatywa Pracownicza (Workers‘ Initiative, IP). It was good to be there, many international guests, and impressive work by Polish comrades who have significantly less resources than what the SAC has – food for thought.
This year’s application window for DIY Solidarity is opening today! Please spread widely. In connection with this, I interviewed one of the projects funded last year, La Cultura del Barrio in Buenos Aires, for DIY Conspiracy.
How about ending this on a funny note? The German Federal Criminal Police Office promised a million euro for any substantial tip on the perpetrators of the January 3 arson attack on Berlin’s electricity grid, which left whole (mostly upper-class) neighborhoods without power for days. The deadline for the tips was February 24. How many substantial tips came in? Zero. Haha.
More next month. Stay safe!