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Solidarietà internazionalista anarchica contro la repressione di Stato... Apr 19 14 Ενάντια στη Ρ&#... Apr 17 14 Solidarité internationale et anarchiste face à la Répression en Russie... Apr 16 14 Anarchist and international solidarity against Russian State repression![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
Days after the Sochi Olympic Games, in the course of which the dictatorial Russian government allowed multinationals firms and other States to satisfy their capitalist pretensions by muzzling opposition and banning demonstrations, the repression of anticapitalists, anarchists, trade-union activists, and the feminist and anti-homophobe movements is still going on.On the 24th February, 7 opponents to the regime have been sentenced for taking part in a demonstration against Putin in 2012, a protest which denounced the fixing of the presidential election by the State. They have been sentenced to up to 4 years detention in a camp for "mass disorder" and "violence against the forces of law and order". This political trial has been greatly criticized by the opposition who have gathered together in great number in front of the court to protest against authoritarianism and repression in the Russian State. In reply, between 200 and 400 people have been arrested with some being tried and given similar sentences. Among them are many anarchist comrades, but also anti-capitalists, feminists and anti-fascist activists.[Français] [Italiano] [Ελληνικά]
Anarchist and international solidarity against Russian State repressionOn the 24th February, 7 opponents to the regime have been sentenced for taking part in a demonstration against Putin in 2012, a protest which denounced the fixing of the presidential election by the State. They have been sentenced to up to 4 years detention in a camp for "mass disorder" and "violence against the forces of law and order". This political trial has been greatly criticized by the opposition who have gathered together in great number in front of the court to protest against authoritarianism and repression in the Russian State. In reply, between 200 and 400 people have been arrested with some being tried and given similar sentences. Among them are many anarchist comrades, but also anti-capitalists, feminists and anti-fascist activists. The situation is increasingly difficult for our Russian comrades, especially since the Russian State, besides imposing constant violence by the police and the political and judicial repression of the "wilder" elements, is encouraging the far-right movements and legitimizing their actions. We remember the story of our antifascist comrade Ivan Khutorskoi, killed in his flat by neo-Nazis in 2009. Anti-fascists, migrants, feminists, gays, lesbians and transsexuals are the first victims of murders, violence and intimidation by the fascists and the State. Hardly surprising when one considers that, for example, the persecution of homosexuals is legitimate in Russian law (thanks to the law against "homosexual propaganda"). But the anarchists wil not be beaten down. On 9 May last, some anarchist comrades who had organized a demonstration in Petrozavodsk against the war in Ukraine were kidnapped, beaten and abused by masked men. Those people, who used the same bludgeons as the police, did not hesitate to threaten the activists with death. The marches against the war were also observed and infiltrated by the State, the police and paramilitary forces. While Russian imperialism strikes in Ukraine and in Crimea to preserve its political and economical interests in the region, the demonstrations by the oppositions are made impossible or allowed at the price of violence, imprisonment or death. The Western States prefer to focus their attention on intervention in Ukraine, to grab as much of the pie as they can against the Russian giant. But their silence is all to noticeable when it comes to the violation of human rights in Russia, in particular those concerning homosexuals, denounced by international bodies. Against State terrorism, we bring our support to our Russian anarchist comrades and to the anti-capitalists, feminists and anti-homophobes, anti-fascists and trade-union activists. We support their struggles and the self-organization initiatives that they set up. We denounce the repression of the Russian social movements, the subjection and the expulsion of "unwanted populations" (migrants, gays, lesbians, bisexuals, transsexuals...). International solidarity must be our strength to fight the State, its freedom-destroying laws and the violence of fascist groups at its service. The Anarkismo network, which includes about thirty anarchist organizations around the world, calls for the end of repression in Russia, the abrogation of anti-homosexual laws, as well as all laws that violate the freedom of expression. We demand the liberation of all political prisoners. Anarkismo.net Alternative Libertaire (France) Federazione dei Comunisti Anarchici (Italy) Libertære Socialister (Denmark) Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group (Australia) Prairie Struggle Organization (Canada) Organisation Socialiste Libertaire (Switzerland) Collectif Communiste Libertaire Bienne (Switzerland) Coordination des Groupes Anarchistes (France) Workers Solidarity Alliance (USA)
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Front pageUkraine: Interview with a Donetsk anarchist Prisões e mais criminalização marcam o final da Copa do Mundo no Brasil هەڵوێستی سەربەخۆی جەماوەر لە نێوان داعش و & Contra a Copa e a Repressão: Somente a Luta e Organização! Nota Pública de soldariedade e denúncia Uruguay, ante la represión y el abuso policial To vote or not to vote: Should it be a question? Mayday: Building A New Workers Movement Argentina: Atentado y Amenazas contra militantes sociales de la FOB en Rosario, Santa Fe Réponses anarchistes à la crise écologique A verdadeira face da violência! Face à l’antisémitisme, pour l’autodéfense Reflexiones en torno a los libertarios en Chile y la participación electoral Mandela, the ANC and the 1994 Breakthrough: Anarchist / syndicalist reflections Melissa Sepúlveda "Uno de los desafíos más importantes es mostrarnos como una alternativa real" Declaración del FAO ante la coyuntura electoral chilena y el quiebre en el movimiento libertario Russia / Ukraine / Belarus | Repression / prisoners | en Tue 12 Aug, 06:19 Ahead of the March 5 court appearance by anarchist Alexei Polikhovich, a joint meeting of the Central Councils of the Navy Social Movements and Unions have issued a call for his release. Polikhovich, 22, who is a retired Northern Fleet conscript sailor, was detained in July 2012 on suspicion of participation in the May 6, 2012, clashes with police during a rally in Moscow's Bolotnaya Square. According to his supporters, Polikhovich dragged to safety one of his fellow protesters who was being beaten by several police officers, whom he pushed off. He is being held in Butyrka pre-trial detention centre. When he was in Moscow on Thursday 28 February last, the day when the trial of 19 militants from the Russian Socialist Movement (revolutionary Marxists and Trotskyists), the Left Front of Russia (in opposition to the Communist Party) and Autonomous Action (libertarian communists) started, François Hollande kept quiet in the name of the superior interests of French companies who do business with Russia. [Français] On the 29th of March the Federal Migration Service of Russia gave Finnish citizen Antti Rautiainen, a member of Autonomous Action, an order to leave the Russian Federation within 15 days. According to the order, Rautiainen is suspected of "making statements for the violent overthrow of the constitutional order." Migration authorities have commented, that such decisions are made according to orders from the Federal Security Service (FSB). [Italiano] On July 28, 2010, more than two hundred young antifascists and anarchists carried out a spontaneous demonstration outside the town administration building in Khimki, a suburb of Moscow. They demonstrated in defense of the Khimki Forest, which was at that time in the process of beings cutting down for the needs of big business. The demonstration, during which several windows were broken, received a great deal of public attention. The authorities responded with a wave of repressions. The day after the demonstration, two well-known social activists, Alexei Gaskarov and Maxim Solopov, were arrested. They are now threatened with up to seven years in prison for disorderly conduct, although there is no evidence of their complicity in illegal activities. Meanwhile, the police continue to hunt down and harass other activists, especially those involved in the antifascist movement. [Italiano] On the evening of 14th April officers of the Center of Counteraction Against Extremism (“Center E”) in the Tyumen region searched the house of, and arrested for 48 hours, local anarchist and member of Autonomous Action, Andrey Kutuzov. According to friends of Andrey, the pretext for the arrest was a leaflet, which Center E officers considered “extremist”. [italiano]
The collective farm “Novy Put’”(“New Way”) is locatedin village Bochevo, 270 km far from Saint Petersburg in Boksitogorsk District of Leningrad region near the border of Novgorod region, 30 km away from the district center that is Boksitogorsk. The nearest store is situated 10 km far from the farm. The nearby road is not asphalted. The collective farm is an anarchist commune and an ecological settlement.
On Saturday March 25th in Minsk a new wave of protests broke out and finished with a brutal clash with the police.
This morning Belarussian anarchists distributed information, that last night 3.30 a.m. OMON moved to destroy tent camp that has been put up in the city center to protest fraud elections in Belarus. Opposition demonstrators had gathered in a central square in the Belarussian capital Minsk since President Alexander Lukashenko secured a third term in office last Sunday.
Alexei Cherepanov from Krasnodar was set up by police in an ongoing history of state repression against anarchists in that city. In August 2004, the court decided that there was no real case against Alexei in light of mounting evidence that police had conspired to frame him and violated procedural norms in his case. But the state prosecutors brought him back to trial.
On 22 August 2012, the anti-fascist Pyotr Silaev was arrested in Grenada. He is an activist in anti-governmental protests, and the author of the book “Exodus” (published in Finland, Greece, Italy and Germany), under the pseudonym DJ Stalingrad. Pyotr took part in the infamous protests in Khimki, which for some protestors ended in jail or hospital (as it did for the renowned journalist Oleg Kashin, who was attacked with baseball bats near his home).
After ten years of uninterrupted rule by Vladimir Putin, the situation in Russia seems ever more complex and worrying. Mikhail Tsovma examines the situation today, the role of Russian neo-Nazis and the prospects for the anarchist movement. This article was first published in Italian in the Summer 2010 issue of "A-Rivista anarchica".
Ahead of the March 5 court appearance by anarchist Alexei Polikhovich, a joint meeting of the Central Councils of the Navy Social Movements and Unions have issued a call for his release. Polikhovich, 22, who is a retired Northern Fleet conscript sailor, was detained in July 2012 on suspicion of participation in the May 6, 2012, clashes with police during a rally in Moscow's Bolotnaya Square. According to his supporters, Polikhovich dragged to safety one of his fellow protesters who was being beaten by several police officers, whom he pushed off. He is being held in Butyrka pre-trial detention centre.
On July 28, 2010, more than two hundred young antifascists and anarchists carried out a spontaneous demonstration outside the town administration building in Khimki, a suburb of Moscow. They demonstrated in defense of the Khimki Forest, which was at that time in the process of beings cutting down for the needs of big business. The demonstration, during which several windows were broken, received a great deal of public attention. The authorities responded with a wave of repressions. The day after the demonstration, two well-known social activists, Alexei Gaskarov and Maxim Solopov, were arrested. They are now threatened with up to seven years in prison for disorderly conduct, although there is no evidence of their complicity in illegal activities. Meanwhile, the police continue to hunt down and harass other activists, especially those involved in the antifascist movement. [Italiano] |
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