The following speech was delivered by Gregor Link on February 4 on Potsdamer Platz in Berlin at the election rally of the Sozialistiche Gleichheitspartei (SGP, the German section of the Fourth International) in opposition to the war in Ukraine. Link is a spokesman for its youth organization, the IYSSE.
In the first days of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Socialist Equality Party, SGP) campaign for the Berlin state election, members and supporters have distributed thousands of leaflets at vocational schools, in residential neighbourhoods and at factories, and held countless discussions with workers and young people.
Contrary to the claims made by politicians and the media that the peak of the Omicron wave has passed, the daily infection and death rates of COVID-19 have risen again massively since the beginning of the month.