In September 2024, I gave a presentation in Dresden about struggles against the right-wing government in Finland. Freedom published a text based on that presentation last September, but due to character limitations I had to skip an introduction to the Finnish party system. This background is...
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Repression targets Chita anarchists already jailed for war resistance and anti-regime graffiti The regional prosecutor’s office for the Trans-Baikal region in eastern Siberia has submitted a petition to a local court to recognize the “Trans-Baikal Left Association” as a terrorist...
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Thousands of Russians have been fighting against the invasion to Ukraine. During first month of protests against the war, 15 000 people were detained. Small street actions are still sporadically taking place, although they are heavily persecuted. More than 300 people have been imprisoned for anti-...
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Translation: volunteers of Autonomous Action. «» The history of solidarity networks in Russia began in 2013, when activists from Autonomous Action and Antijob, most likely members of the Barnaul cell, found information on the internet about the Seattle Solidarity Networks. After studying...
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There are some factual
There are some factual historical mistakes / approximations in this text :
During the second world war, anarchists in practically every Nazi occupied European country, cooperated with the «mainstream» resistance movement, although these were controlled by stalinists or bourgeois nationalists.
regarding the participation of anarchists i nFrench resistance, and especially the spainsh refugees, first it has been a long debate inside spansih CNT. Not all agreed to join the resistance considering it was not their business, as France did not help them in Spain against Franco. Second, those who eventually decided to join resistance inisted in organizing separated units, only from anarchists, with their full autonomy of command and action, making clear they were not fighting to liberate France but against fascism and for the world revolution. And they certainly did not cooperate with the stalinist, on the contrary ... ****://cnt-ait.info/2020/07/19/barrage-de-laigle/
"In France, anarchist refugees from Spanish CNT joined the Free France army, lead by general de Gaulle, and eventually ended up liberating Paris —" Formaly those who joined the Free French Army where in Algeria or Tunisia, and they enlist not as a decision of CNT but on individual basis. And even inside the army, they maintained the anarchist principles, something that puzzled the Free French Army officers, execept their direct officer, Drone, who understood that if he wated to get the best from thos experienced solidiers he had to let them do by their rules ...
regarding Algeria, it is more complex. "French anarcho-communists did not declare that they are «Against French and Algerian nationalism». Instead, they provided concrete support to Algerian rebels." Well in fact it is more complex. They dindt supported the FLN rebels but their rivals of MTLD ... And some of the former of them, long time after, expressed some regrets they have particpated to this nationalist adventure as the free algeria not became a free state as their dreamt about ...
Well, this said, i agree with you that in face of oppresion and risk of physical suppresion, anarchists has to organize and fight against the most dangerous ennemy - which is certainly russian imperialism at this moment. But always using our own tactics and strategy, and avoiding as much as possible compromises with ennemies even if they are only potential currently while other are reals.