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The Feral Underclass
10th July 2006, 16:03
From Infoshop:

Sunday, July 09 2006 @ 05:19 PM PDT

The authorities in St Petersburg have banned the demonstration that the Russian Social Forum were planning. They were ridiculing the organisers by saying they could march around the Kirov stadium where the RSF is organised. (This is just to report on repression, not to support the RSF, where nationlist, statist, capitalist and fascist elements are participating among people with perhaps some good intentions.)

At the moment there are already lots of police patrolling the city centre of St Petersburg and the authorities have said that no demonstrations will be allowed or seen.

The plan of the authorities is to prevent all people they consider are planning to protest to even enter the city. Railways and telecommunications companies are cooperating with the authorities providing them information. There have already been incidents where people have been picked off from trains.

So the repression is at an all-time-high while the G8 leaders are about to meet to make their catastrophic future plans of state-capitalist-industrialist domination. This is terrorism on global level. Concerning the climate change situation the G8 policies are a global suicide strike. Concerning peak oil and the enfolding global energy crisis, the globalised industrial civilization will fall with potentially catastrophic consequenses. It is also a fact that these people are commiting cold-blooded mass murders in regions such as Iraq, Chechnya and Congo DRC.

Majority of folks around the world need to see the situation in its severity. The world views of these chief industrialists need to be questioned, as well as their materialistic, psychopathic ideas of good life. Their destructive practical activities need and can be stopped by grassroots direct action. And an alternative way of life free of capitalism, the state and industrialism (and all other forms of oppression too, such as patriarchy, racism, homophobia, ageism, speciesm etc.) need to be created in order for us to survive and thrive.

The Libertarian Forum, a desperate but vigorous attempt to reach these and other goals has been going on in Moscow for two days. Lots of representations, discussions and networking has been taking place in this well organised event. During the first day some background was given about the legal situation and the history of the anarchist movement in Russia. During the second day there were discussions and presentations on Indymedia, anarchism's and bolshevism's relationship in Russia, precarization, political prisoner support and carnevalistic street protest and other tactics.

So while the cronies of Kreml, White House and others are preparing their destructive plans, so are those too who want and enjoy to fight for a good life and refuse to bow down to repression even though the situation seems desperate. May the revolutionary underground affinity groups be succesful in their direct actions! For a world which has enough empathy to beat the oppression in all its forms!

The Feral Underclass
10th July 2006, 16:05
There was just news that the Russian police have arrested two German nationals (from the 'bike caravan') after stopping them in the street for "Provocational actions in the territory of Russian
Federation."

I didn't realise taht walking down the street constituted a "Provocational action"

Janus
10th July 2006, 22:00
There was probably more to it than that but these actions by the Russian government are quite authoritarian. It seems that the state has become moreso within the last few years.

Forward Union
10th July 2006, 22:23
anything from the vast armed nazi movement?

Shadowlegion
10th July 2006, 23:20
this shouldn't surprise anyone, the remnants of the KGB have pretty much been pushed into power.

Janus
10th July 2006, 23:27
Putin himself was a former member of the KGB.

He revealed his participation in repressive actions against dissidents in his autobiography First Person.

The Feral Underclass
11th July 2006, 12:57
Tuesday, July 11, 2006

The bike caravan activists arrested yesterday got released and
rearrested back at the flat they were staying at and a bunch of other
people got arrested there too. (all this is in St peterburg)
details are incoherent as there are few people accesible on the ground there.
the german consulate (2 of them were german) apparently refused
assistance....
There is clearly a need for external pressure here on the russian
authorities as apparently this is Putin being nice before the summit..
afterwards the repression will be spun as policing violent
demonstrations..

The Feral Underclass
13th July 2006, 13:19
Anyone wanting to get involved in any solidarity stuff, PM me.

Dimentio
13th July 2006, 14:10
Was'nt it so that the Russian authorities have "offered" the leftglobalists to hold their demonstration together with the antiglobalist skinheads?

The Feral Underclass
13th July 2006, 14:40
Originally posted by [email protected] 13 2006, 12:11 PM
Was'nt it so that the Russian authorities have "offered" the leftglobalists to hold their demonstration together with the antiglobalist skinheads?
I've not heard that.

Honggweilo
13th July 2006, 15:33
I've reports of russian comrades being pulled of public transportation and got arrested without any legal excuse. these preemptive arrests are sickening indeed.. this will not be another scotland ...

The Feral Underclass
13th July 2006, 15:50
Originally posted by [email protected] 13 2006, 01:34 PM
I've reports of russian comrades being pulled of public transportation and got arrested without any legal excuse. these preemptive arrests are sickening indeed.. this will not be another scotland ...
Well, those things didn't happen in Scotland, so you're right it won't be.

But yes, you're right. The Russian state is coming down very hard and very fast on activists and it's important for those of us in England to show solidarity.

Si Pinto
13th July 2006, 19:13
I originally posted this in the events and prop forum..silly me.

If you've read the Newswire item about the struggles of our Russian comrades as they prepare for the G8 summit, and your looking to do something about it.

Here is a useful site which you can use to help plan your demonstration.

http://www.russianembassy.net/

Good luck