communard resolution
3rd May 2008, 04:09
"On March 16 2008 around 6.30 or 6.40 pm in the Moscow city centre at the exit of Kitai-Gorod metro station a group of about 15 neonazis armed with knives have attacked 5 people who were going to a hardcore / punk gig headlined by Karelian oi band Nichego Khoroghego at Art Garbage club. As a result of attack a punk aged 21, Alexei Krylov from the Moscow Region town of Noginsk, has died due to multiple stab wounds some 15 minutes later, before the ambulance arrived. A girl attacked in the same incident survived by a chance - the knife got stuck in her backpack less than an inch from her body. There were several nazi mobs in the area each numbering 10-15 people attacking antifascists. The gig was cancelled a few bands in after some pepper spray was used and windows broken by persons unknown. The attack appears to have been planned in advance with involvement of some FC Spartak hooligans.
Nearly two years ago in Moscow 19 years old Alexander Ryukhin has been murdered by a nazi gang on his way to a hardcore gig."
I apologize if this story has been posted before on this forum. The point is: even though the international press isn't reporting on Russian neo-nazis quite as much as it did some two or three years ago, it's not like things have gotten better. According to info I received from several Russians, they have gone from bad to worse. Immigrants, leftists, punks, etc are attacked on a daily basis, and the attacks result in murder with increasing frequency. Some areas in Russia are controlled by violent fascists to such an extent, they are unlivable. Police are turning a blind eye, authorities deny there is a neo-nazi problem, and fascist murderers are getting mild sentences for "hooliganism". I read a post on white power forum Stormfront in which a Russian neo-nazi smugly brags that "police here are on our side because we're doing the dirty work for them", referring to neo-nazi assaults on gypsies.
Today I've decided that I can no longer just sit there and consume such news like some kind of horror movie. Russian anti-fascists are urging us to organise solidarity demostrations near Russian embassies and consulates, to draw international attention to the issue and pressurize the Russian government to tackle neo-nazi problem and crack down on organized neo-nazism in Russia. And this is exactly what I will do. I will get in touch with every single leftist organization in my city, no matter whether anarchist, Trotskist, Socialist Workers Party, Antifa, Anarchist Federation-I don't care who- and will try to organize a big demonstration, ideally right in front of the Russian embassy, or as close as possible. This is literally a matter of life and death and not the time to debate petty differences among all the various leftist groups and factions. This issue calls for a united front.
Comrades, I'm urging you to do the same wherever you are. Forget about the differences. Organize demonstrations, write readers letters to newspapers about what is happening in Russia, try to involve as many different groups as possible. Invite journalists, even from the mainstream left-liberal press as they have power, will probably be sympathetic with the cause and give it a lot of publicity.
We MUST do something about this now!
Nearly two years ago in Moscow 19 years old Alexander Ryukhin has been murdered by a nazi gang on his way to a hardcore gig."
I apologize if this story has been posted before on this forum. The point is: even though the international press isn't reporting on Russian neo-nazis quite as much as it did some two or three years ago, it's not like things have gotten better. According to info I received from several Russians, they have gone from bad to worse. Immigrants, leftists, punks, etc are attacked on a daily basis, and the attacks result in murder with increasing frequency. Some areas in Russia are controlled by violent fascists to such an extent, they are unlivable. Police are turning a blind eye, authorities deny there is a neo-nazi problem, and fascist murderers are getting mild sentences for "hooliganism". I read a post on white power forum Stormfront in which a Russian neo-nazi smugly brags that "police here are on our side because we're doing the dirty work for them", referring to neo-nazi assaults on gypsies.
Today I've decided that I can no longer just sit there and consume such news like some kind of horror movie. Russian anti-fascists are urging us to organise solidarity demostrations near Russian embassies and consulates, to draw international attention to the issue and pressurize the Russian government to tackle neo-nazi problem and crack down on organized neo-nazism in Russia. And this is exactly what I will do. I will get in touch with every single leftist organization in my city, no matter whether anarchist, Trotskist, Socialist Workers Party, Antifa, Anarchist Federation-I don't care who- and will try to organize a big demonstration, ideally right in front of the Russian embassy, or as close as possible. This is literally a matter of life and death and not the time to debate petty differences among all the various leftist groups and factions. This issue calls for a united front.
Comrades, I'm urging you to do the same wherever you are. Forget about the differences. Organize demonstrations, write readers letters to newspapers about what is happening in Russia, try to involve as many different groups as possible. Invite journalists, even from the mainstream left-liberal press as they have power, will probably be sympathetic with the cause and give it a lot of publicity.
We MUST do something about this now!