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russia / ukraine / belarus / anarchist movement Wednesday September 23, 2009 16:34 by Ellenor Hutson
Earlier this year, Anarkismo.net decided to send a delegate, as an observer representing the organizations which run the Anarkismo project, to the 8th annual conference of Autonomous Action (AD), a libertarian communist organization with branches across Russia, Belarus and the Ukraine. Present at the conference were delegates from 12 different branches of AD, together with observers from the Union of Autonomous Youth and the youth wing of the Siberian Federation of Labour.The conference was held at a secret location in the Ural Mountains where a campsite was set up from resources laboriously carried uphill over a 6-hour hike. This was a necessary precaution police attention and in addition provided economical conference accommodation in a country were poverty is widespread. [Castellano] [italiano] [Português]
russia / ukraine / belarus / anti-fascism Tuesday February 03, 2009 01:09 by Secrétariat International
Mobilisons-nous !C’est avec consternation que nous avons appris les assassinats de Stanislav Markelov, avocat défenseur des droits humains et des mouvements sociaux et syndicaux de Russie et d’Anastassia Babourova, journaliste à Novaia Gazeta et militante communiste libertaire d’Avtonomie Deistvie, organisation dont plusieurs militant-e-s ont été assassinés ces dernières années par des groupes d’extrême droite.
russia / ukraine / belarus / anarchist movement Tuesday December 20, 2005 17:38 by Jose Antonio Gutierrez
This was a much awaited book. Published originally in French back in 1982, its English version finally saw the light of day, and the wait was well worth it. For those who are not familiar with the subject, the Makhnovists were a libertarian movement, deeply rooted in the traditions of anarchist-communism, that developed an experience of revolutionary changes in the economic and political structures of the backwarded Ukrainian society. To defend the gains of the Social Revolution, they launched a guerrilla warfare in Ukraine against a number of enemies: foreign troops, Nationalists, Whites, different warlords and Bolsheviks.
The flaws that are commented upon don't invalidate the work but they make it more directed to an anarchist public, than to a non-anarchist one; and unfortunately, the information provided here is quite strong and well researched, and would be very valuable to discuss with a broader leftist audience, but the language make it a bit difficult, as it sounds sectarian. We are still waiting for a further history on the Makhnovist movement that is done in such a fashion that allows us to start that discussion around the methods of the revolution under the light of this historical experience. |
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