Russian security services may have used agent provocateur to frame up anti-fascists
Submitted by Gabriel Levy on Jan 31 2019 10:32
A Russian newspaper has published evidence that the FSB used a neo-Nazi agent provocateur to try to entrap defendants in the "Network" case, who were then arrested and tortured
Russia’s “anti-fascist” fascism is not a far-away, exotic reality. It’s here
Submitted by Gabriel Levy on Jan 20 2019 14:47
What they said at the 19 January demonstration in London to support Russian anti-fascists
The original content of the communist program is the obliteration of the individual as an economic subject, rights-holder, and agent of human history (Part I)
In this text, whose French translation appeared in Camatte’s book Bordiga et la Passion du Communisme and which is translated into English for the first time here, Amadeo Bordiga lays out a concrete vision of communist society as reconstructed from Marx’s fragmentary writings on the subject. Communist production, while following “a common and rational plan”, will as a joyful act constitute “its own reward”. However, to attain such a state of affairs, a revolutionary “dictatorship over consumption” will first be necessary according to Bordiga.
The Fatal Charm of the Millennium
The New York Review of Books
Aileen Kelly
January 22, 1976 Issue
Bakunin and the Historians
Libertarian Labor Review (later renamed Anarcho Syndicalist Review)
Summer 1992
https://syndicalist.us/2013/05/27/bakunin-and-the-historians/
“Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin, the anarchist, was a political thinker; his reputation, based partly on his appetite for action and partly on unsympathetic historiography, obscures this…” Robert Cutler opens the introduction to his anthology of Bakunin’s writings with these words. Another historian, Nunzio Pernicone, deplores the modern fashion of “Bakunin-bashing.” And Arthur Lehning, in a 1978 review of the historical literature, refers to a conspiracy of silence...
Network Case Suspects Go on Hunger Strike
Submitted by S2W on Dec 6 2018 11:13
OVD Info
December 2, 2018
Dmitry Pchelintsev and Andrei Chernov, residents of Penza and suspects
in the so-called Network case, have gone on hunger strike, claiming
remand prison officials and FSB officers have intimidated them during
their review of their criminal case file, something to which they are
entitled by Russian law. Several Penza suspects in the case have claimed
they have been put in solitary confinement, handcuffed to radiators, and
threatened with violance.
Biographies of and works about Mikhail Bakunin - reading guide
Book length or pamphlet length (10,000 words+) or otherwise notable biographies of the life of and works about the founder of Anarchism Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876) with considerable reference to his politics in chronological order. No works by Bakunin except in edited collections or extracts.
Festival Father Frost against Putin 2019 to take place in January
Submitted by S2W on Nov 18 2018 07:28
Next year, 2019, the Father Frost against Putin-festival will once again
take place in Helsinki. From the 5th to the 6th of January you can join
discussions about the state of affairs in Russia and the x-USSR region,
and get a chance to meet various social and political activists without
the fear of police or special service operations. (fear of infringement
from the side of police and special services).
Kaliningrad Anarchist Vyacheslav Lukichev Interrogated for 36 Hours and Beaten
Submitted by R Totale on Nov 17 2018 14:42
A report, translated by the Russian Reader, on the ongoing repression against Russian anarchists. Russian anarchists have also published a call for international solidarity.
The untold history of armistice and the end of World War I
Submitted by Jared on Nov 10 2018 04:20
‘The best antidote to ideology is detail,’ writes Paul Mason. And the detail that’s missing this Armistice Day is that working people, when they take power into their own hands, can end whatever catastrophe is imposed on them.
