1. At the moment in Libya continues a veritable civil war. Against the rebellious people are using warplanes and helicopters. The number of fatalities in the hundreds. In turn, the demonstrators were armed and well tuned at least strongly.
12:00 (GMT +2): Thousands of people gathered in central Athens, Patras, Thessaloniki and other marches have not yet begun, because more and more people to the streets. Thousands of cops are also gathering around the collection points, trying to intimidate protesters. As reported by the authorities, police forces have been moved to Athens from other cities to join the plan to suppress the statements.
On the political discourse
During the Soviet period was such a tale: that someone managed to call a dead-end (something like alley) Communist. Came the scandal. In the phrase was seditious allusion. And me now and then comes to mind is the name of "liberal impasse" - looking at how to argue our homegrown liberals.
February 27, 2011 in the Sevastopol city hosted the rally in the campaign for accessible public transport. " The purpose of the picket was to inform the public about the critical situation of public transport in the city and the presentation of the brochure "For free transportation (which you can download in the attached files). Participants of the rally came to express outrage that is now a trolleybus fleet of Sevastopol is in shambles and the situation of workers Sevtrolleybusa - unenviable (persistent wage arrears).In spite of this, local authorities did not pridprinimaet.
Russian authorities intend to dramatically change the environmental legislation with a view to the actual destruction of nature reserves in the country. All this is necessary for industrial development of protected natural areas, as well as for the construction of residences for the first persons in the reserves of the country. Ministry of Natural Resources has acknowledged that he supports changing the law, leading to the destruction of the reserve system in Russia.
Hay-haw, boys! That was another festival day deserter 2011 " (DD-11), organized by Autonomous Action, and sympathizers. At 19 and 20 February in Moscow brought together anarchists, anti-militarist, anti-fascists and leftists just from different cities of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine.
Publish a letter anarchist Fee Marie Meyer, 27-year-old citizen of Germany, was detained in the intelligence services in Greece in early January. After the arrest the police and pro-government e country's media to spread lies about what allegedly Fee Marie's daughter, Barbara Meyer, a participant, "RAF." Once these relatives Fee Marie came up with a refutation of police disinformation anarchist released from custody in mid-January. A few weeks later Meyer was again arrested and detained.
In Greece, on February 23 held a general strike. In protests and demonstrations attended by several hundred thousand people. All life in the country, institutions and transport were paralyzed as a result of the strike. Protest rallies were held in more than 50 cities across the country. The largest trade unions of civil servants and the private sector (ADEDY and GSEE) held the first in this year's strike against the government, which pursues a policy of "belt-tightening" in exchange for loans to EU and the IMF.
On Thursday evening (02/17/2011) hosted a demonstration of solidarity with the Belarusian zaklyuchennymi.Demonstratsiya began at 18 o'clock, in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg (Kreuzberg "Heinrichplatz"). There were about 35 people, just playing music, was made public a report on the repression of the anarchists and the opposition, handed out leaflets and newspapers.
In America not so much rock and roll groups, solidarity with the trade union movement as well as the Dropkick Murphys . It is not surprising that the group released their new song "Take 'Em Down" in support of thousands of union workers of Wisconsin and their supporters protesting against the draconian budget plan, prinyatnogo governor of the state.
Unprecedented things happen today. Labor unions brought people into the streets. Not in Egypt and Tunisia, while in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. Having received, in November 2010, authorities in the state Republican Party led the attack on trade union rights. The new bill takes away from unions and local administration staff, teachers and other rights of collective representation. Alone easier to break. At the turn of Ohio and Michigan, where Republicans also took power. In the private sector in the U.S. trade unions is almost gone.
The events of the last month in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Libya, make you think. End of history, as predicted by the bourgeois philosopher Fukuyama did not happen. The Arab world is rebelling. In Russia, it would seem, the question of revolution is not on the agenda. On the one hand. On the other hand, in the Caucasian republics still exists, the guerrilla movement. Half a year ago in the Far East there are some "coastal guerrillas.
On night of February 1st, anarchists of Barnaul (Altai region) undertook a graffiti-action which ridiculed the members of today’s Russian “political elite” and compared them with parasites. It did not took long for state repressive apparatus to react. On the next day the officers of so-called anti-extremist police (CPE) broke into the houses of two libertarian activists – Sergey Sandin and Daniil Malishkin.
Anarchists who set fire to police cars, in an interview with Radio Liberty, said the anarchists, who do not.
The occasion for this conversation was the latest arson attack police car in Moscow. Policemen arrived at the street Ostrovityanova, as it turned out, the wrong call on February 9. Their car was set on fire after they came out of it. Responsibility for action taken on so-called "Butovskiy robbers", who sent a report about the rally's website "Blackblocg".
This year they released their first album of new author's close to our ideas. The album featured nine songs performed with guitar accompaniment. Comrade Arkady before that for several years played in the infamous hardcore band, adhering to leftist ideas, but now switched to a different genre. Lyrics and poetry is quite acceptable level. The author has talent, and previous experience probably helps. On the subject of a socially-oriented lyrics. Particularly memorable song about menchendayzerov "Higher Education". Keep it up!
Despite the global financial crisis has been going on for over 3 years, a growth state oligarchs planet continues. 35000 "ultrabogachey" have become even richer than before, prietom position of the working world worse. The annual World Wealth Report, compiled by companies Merryll Lynch and Capgemini, - a thorough study of the liquid, suitable for investment capital in the hands of the wealthiest people on the planet. We are talking about the owners of large net assets (from $ 1 million of liquid wealth) and the largest net asset value (from $ 30 million)
Khimki city prosecutor's office on Feb. 11 approved an indictment against anti-fascists defenders Khimki Forest Gaskarova Alexey and Maxim Solopova. It was given to the accused on February 15. Alex and Max are accused of grave breaches of public order, which expresses a clear disrespect for society, it is the use of weapons and objects used as weapons, an organized group - ie, crime, part 2 of article. 213 of the Criminal Code ("Public Disorder"). Gaskarova Solopova and faces up to seven years imprisonment.
Russian nuclear power plants pose a real threat to the population of the country. The first decade of February puts records for unplanned shutdown of the reactor at nuclear power plants in Russia: there was five unplanned shutdowns and unloading units in 11 days. Nuclear energy demonstrates the extreme precariousness of work, while nuclear engineers prefer to pretend that nothing significant is happening. Despite these freelancers, and potential emergency situations Rosatom says that it was planned blackouts and unloading units.
February 17 in Tyumen, a regular court hearing on charges of party "Autonomous Action" Andrey Kutuzov of spreading "extremist" leaflets. On it were opened the shocking facts of falsification of evidence in a case that led the FSB.
Sigmund Freud believed that resistance against the analysis in the analytical procedure itself can and should be analyzed. From how the person resists openness, it becomes visible to the entire clinical picture.
While there is debate about whether one can assume the street share the art of "War" art, it became known that one of those notorious St. Petersburg stocks advanced on the state prize for visual arts and even joined the short list of nominees ( http:// free-voina.org/post/3289581310 ).
Video interview with anarchist at gogol.tv: "He goes into the past odious image of gangster-anarchist who created the Soviet literature and cinema. The key idea of anarchism - the denial of institutions for political coercion and the ability of society to organize themselves - now comes to life in a variety of concepts and practices: from hitchhiking and informal communities to motions such as "Antifa".
"February 14, 2011 from the start having a bad day" - with a smile says Vitaliy Leonov, now the third podozrevaemy on the case of "extremist" graffiti campaign, held in Barnaul on the night of Feb. 1 . "I just felt so - that something bad will happen today. Came to work not as usual, but reluctantly. Before lunch almost really did nothing - just drank coffee mugs and nervous. As it turned out, my intuition did not fail. "
As of right now four Belarussian anarchists are under arrest, accused of having organised a series of direct actions 2009-2010.
Everything started long before this past September(2010). The years 2009-2010 were rich in radical actions claimed by Belarusian anarchists. Such as:
*an illegal anti-militarist demonstration in Septeber 2009 against a mutual
Russian-Belarusian war exercise, when a Joint Staff was attacked with a smoke grenade.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iQ3kz0hVDM
FIAT factory workers in the Polish town of Tychy damaged 300 cars last night. Act of sabotage was a damaged car in various ways, for example, in applying deep scratches keys podkladyvanii screws into the engines, cutting the cables and other types of damage. Leadership is now trying to find the saboteurs.
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