July 22 in Moscow will host an anti-fascist action in memory of Ilya Borodaenko. Announcement

The rally begins at 19-00 hours, Chistoprudny Boulevard, near the monument Griboyedov. July 21, 2010 marks three years since the assassination of an ecologist, anti-fascist, party movement "independent action" Elijah Borodaenko in environmental camp in Angarsk. 21 July 2007 at Camp environmentalists protesting against plans to build in the region of the International Uranium Enrichment Center (IUEC), attacked by a group-Nazi skinheads.

July 22 in Moscow will host an anti-fascist action in memory of Ilya Borodaenko

The rally begins at 19-00 hours, Chistoprudny Boulevard, near the monument Griboyedov. July 21, 2010 marks three years since the assassination of an ecologist, anti-fascist, a member of the movement "independent action" by Ilya Borodaenko an environmental camp in Angarsk.

In Bashkortostan replaced president. Trying to ensure "a decent old age" - no match for an ordinary Russian pensioners

Expected at an emergency meeting of the State Assembly of Bashkortostan Rakhimov statement on his resignation on July 15 and did not hear because of the absence of the president himself. Having assembled in order to fire resorts State Assembly deputies were puzzled. A disappointed look and State Duma deputy Andrei Nazarov, and not enjoy the spectacle, as the defeated enemy would sign the act of surrender, and something to babble in his own defense.

In St. Petersburg will show a movie about Nastya Baburova

Today (19 July) at 16.00, during the festival "Message to Man", will show the documentary "Love me, please" (2010, dir. Valery Balayan) about life and death of journalist and anti-fascist Anastasia Baburova. Show will be held in St.Petersburg Cinema House. In Russian, with English subtitles.

Toronto G20: Eyewitness Report, Or, Riot 2010 Part Deux

Our last update offered an overview of what happened in Toronto during the anarchist actions against the G20 June 25-27. We’ve received the following blow-by-blow report from on the ground there, offering context and analysis from inside the riots that shook Canada’s largest city. Anarchists have fully emerged in North America as a force to be reckoned with following the events in Toronto, and it is important to understand how this came about. The black bloc has become a household name throughout the region, and we must use this exposure to our advantage by maintaining our visibility even in the face of repression. We must also look critically at the events of the weekend in order to make strategic advances toward our goal of completely dismantling the domination and hierarchy of the present world.

Defenders Himkinchskogo forest tent camp protest

14 July residents of Khimki near Moscow, which for years fought against the project of building the toll road Moscow-Saint Petersburg Khimki through the forest (forest is part of the forest belts of Moscow and a source of clean air in Khimki), found that about 2 weeks is cutting down forests Khimki . morning of 15 July representatives of the initiative group of residents went to the scene of the event. Felling took place away from Khimki.

Stable instability

In the socio-economic life of the planet, one after another is a series of extraordinary events: the bombings in the Moscow metro, the death of the Polish delegation, the national uprising in Kyrgyzstan, a volcanic eruption in Iceland, an environmental catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico. The dramatic events occur in the financial markets. At the end of last year it seemed that the situation is normalized. Nothing foretold catastrophic consequences.

15 July in Moscow, recalled Natalia Estemirova and victims of political terror

July 15 About 50 people took part in a picket in central Moscow to mark the anniversary of the murder human rights activist Natalya Estemirova. Estemirova was kidnapped and killed July 15, 2009 in Chechnya. A year later, law enforcement has reported on completion of the investigation - they all blame lies with the militants Alhazura Bashaeva, which, according to police, was killed in November 2009.

Passed environmental picket in defense of forest in and around Moscow

On 14 July, Clean Ponds near the monument Griboyedov held a joint rally of environmental NGOs in the protection of forests in and around Moscow. The main stated theme: against deforestation in and around Moscow, against the construction of Ring Road, against the construction of forest trails in Khimki Moscow - St.

Organizers of the exhibition "Forbidden Art-2006 were found guilty

June 12 Tagansky district court in Moscow has sentenced Andrei Erofeev, curator of the exhibition "Forbidden Art 2006", and Yuri Samodurov, the former in 2007, the museum director to them. Sakharov, which hosted the exhibition. Both iskustvoveda were found guilty of "inciting hatred and enmity" and "humiliation of human dignity" and sentenced to fines of 150 and 200 thousand rubles. The criminal case was initiated at the request of participants in the movement "People's Cathedral", which viewed the exhibits of the exhibition insulting the Orthodox religion and the Orthodox believers.

Stage Bottles: solidarity with the anti-fascists in Russia and in word and deed

June 5, 2010 France passed a holiday in Paris branch of the National Confederation of Labour (CNT) - a red and black banquet and a concert by the German band The Stage Bottles. The team played very well, cheerfully and professionally delighted audiences such well-known things like «I May Be Impolite» , «Hooligan», «Sometimes Antisocial, Always Antifascist».

A wave of strikes swept through China

The Chinese economy is said to have an exception in the global crisis of capitalism. Tell that to the thousands of Chinese workers, who over the past week, participated in a wave of strikes that swept many parts of the country. Among the most sensational was the fight at a number of the Honda, which still swept the three strike wave - even after employees have achieve higher wages after the first strike by 24%. On "Fokskonne, manufacturer Ipods, where recently there were many cases of suicide, as a result of the strike had to raise wages by 70%.At the engineering factory CCO clashes between security forces and employees, when first attempted to prevent a second strike to make the streets.

There was questioning Rustam Fakhretdinova

July 13 Tyumen journalist, member of the movement "independent action" Rustam Fakhretdinov was questioned by investigators of the Investigation Department of the investigative committee of the Procuracy of the Russian Federation in the Tyumen region, Konstantin Zaikov. Fakhretdinova notified that he is a suspect in a criminal case for publication in the newspaper "The Evening Tyumen in 2008 , the articles "Tsentralka for what ruined me ..." and "Flowers of the police department of the Central-3.

Lance Corporal Joe Glenton, which opposes the war in Afghanistan, released!

The soldier, who was jailed after refusing to return to Afghanistan on the grounds that he opposed the war, was released from military prison in Colchester Monday, July 12, 2010.
Lance Corporal Joe Glenton was jailed for nine months from March 2010 after he admitted that he had been 2 years and 6 days AWOL.

The movement of landless workers in Brazil. Look Anarchist

During the conference, internationalist initiatives in Germany in Tübingen in May I was able to hear the report of activists from the Brazilian Movement of Landless Workers (MST) and talk to them. MST - this is probably the largest social movement in the modern world. In its ranks are to date more than 1.5 million members, and it operates in 23 of the 26 Brazilian states, organizing clamps empty land to landless.

Sociologists have found that the inhabitants of Moscow are better than "maritime guerrilla. Excuse me, in their view, Internet

And where the main channel of information - TV, they are considered criminals.
The study population ratio Russia for an armed gang of six men who had attacked on policemen in Primorye, strikingly at variance with the results of opinion survey of Muscovites. Banda "maritime guerrilla" aroused great sympathy Muscovites (46%) than among Russians in general (22%). In Moscow, maritime group endorsed 10% of respondents, against the all-Russian 3%. In the country 52% of Russians condemn the actions of the guerrillas, and in Moscow, only 9%, according to the Levada Center.

CNT held a demonstration in Madrid against labor reforms and reductions in public sector

3 July 1000 CNT members and supporters took to the streets to protest against labor law reform and the onset of the ruling circles of the working people, unfolded in recent months. The demonstration, which was also attended by comrades who had arrived from Valencia, Granada, Cordoba, Salamanca and other cities, began at 12.00.

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Антти Раутиайнен

June 11th is the International Day of Solidarity with Marius Mason & All Long-Term Anarchist Prisoners. This action day has a long history, it was organized first time 20 years ago in 2004. In the first year, we managed to paint a graffiti to wall of one of the most guarded objects of Moscow,...

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Антти Раутиайнен

Anarchist group ANA Regensburg hosted my online-presentation on 16th of May 2024, in which I discussed tactics of anti-war activism in Russia, and reasons why the anti-war movement has not been able to make an impact to change the course of events yet. Cases of anarchists repressed for anti-war...

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