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.

In Tyumen the search for "extremists"

The activist "autonomous action" in Tyumen was searched, a criminal case. 12 July, 7-30 am to 10 am in the apartment of an activist movement "Autonomous Action", a journalist Rustam Fakhretdinova being searched for "the purpose of removing documents and literature of an extremist. A search was conducted staff the center of the E and the investigative committee of the Prosecutor's Office in the absence of Rustam.

In Paris, the exhibition "Russia: another look"

Yesterday in Paris opened an exhibition of human rights and various other independent organizations and movements of Russia under the title "Russia: another look." The exact name of the exhibition is translated "other side" or "other person", but somehow it is not entirely in Russian. A liberal "echo" from filing "Soldiers 'Mothers' in general exhibit dubbed" The Other Russia "firmly proassotsiirovav her with very definite and already discredited the Russian liberal movement.

Let's start to change the world

Participants of the "autonomous operation - Tyumen" change the world around him, without asking permission from the authorities. July 10, we repaired the bridge over the highway in front of building thermal 2a through the streets of East passage.

Every day we go to school or work, bringing kids to school and kindergartens. Walking along the street, we inevitably encounter obstacles, with the unsettled, which prevents us first.

New brochure M. Insarova "Marxism and the revolutionary struggle of the proletariat"

Union of Revolutionary Socialists issued a pamphlet of the famous Russian theorist left Marlena Insarova "Marxism and the revolutionary struggle of the proletariat", where his works are collected in different years. Download and order a brochure, please click here

Greece: general strike paralyzed the country

July 8, in Greece was a general strike directed against the plans of the country's governments to push through parliament a package "anti-crisis laws" imposed by the IMF and the EU, to assume the scale of postdiktatorsky period in the history of the country, attack on the rights of workers and pensioners: sokrashenie social rasshodov budget cuts in wages and pensions, increase the retirement age, the deterioration of labor laws. The strike virtually paralyzed the public transport in the country.Been completely paralyzed public transport. Did not work underground, buses and trams arose. Was closed the biggest Greek port of Piraeus and Athens International Airport.

Innovyhoda no

Tatiana Vorozheykina: "Much more important for the modernization of the diverse, strong and weak self-organization processes and people trying to change their position and type of interaction in their circle, and with authority. Supermodernizatsionnymi projects should become self-development projects in housing, the support of trade unions, environmental movement, the movement to protect cultural monuments, fighters sealing buildings and so on.

The action of solidarity with the residents of informal settlements in South Africa!

This afternoon, about 13 hours, the South African Embassy in Moscow, a small group of anarchists held an unauthorized picket in support of social activists and residents of informal settlements in South Africa.Participants unfurled a banner "No to repression against activists in South Africa," had scattered leaflets in the open windows of the embassy and lit the fireworks.

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