Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by KAGARLITSKY Boris
There was nothing unexpected about the racially motivated rioting and attacks that took place in Moscow and other cities during the past 10 days. But many people are still shocked by the image of Russian youth giving Nazi salutes against the backdrop of the Kremlin wall and by reports of an (…)
, by Correspondent(s)
Global action day 2.0
November 12–15, Close the Khimki Case and Drop All Charges against Gaskarov and Solopov
November 12–15, 2010: New International Days of Action
We Demand that the Russian Authorities Close the Khimki Case and Drop All Charges against Alexei Gaskarov and Maxim Solopov (…)
, by BJORK Tord
The release of Maxim Solopov today, a Latin American studies researcher in Moscow and antifascist accused of actions in connection with the Khimki forest conflict is great news, see press release below. Now we have one more possibility for historic victories against repression this year after (…)
, by ALI Tariq, KIRSTY Jane
Today’s guest contributor, Tariq Ali, is a writer, activist and political commentator. A leading figure of the Trotskyist movement in the sixties and seventies, Ali’s engagement with Trotsky goes far beyond party politics. I met up with him at the Edinburgh Book Festival, where he was (…)
, by Campaign for the Release of the Khimki Hostages
A Call for International Days of Action in Support of Alexei Gaskarov and Maxim Solopov, September 17–20, 2010
On July 28, 2010, more than two hundred young antifascists and anarchists carried out a spontaneous demonstration outside the town administration building in Khimki, a suburb of (…)
RUS 002 / 0810 / OBS 099 12 August 2010
The Observatory has been informed by reliable sources, including the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society (RCFS), about the arbitrary arrest and judicial harassment against Ms. Evgenia Chirikova, Coordinator of the Campaign for the Defence of the Khimki (…)
, by BJORK Tord
More than hundreds activists have gathered at Eda climate camp North of Stockholm 2-8 of August organized by Friends of the Earth Sweden and educational organizations. Here we were reached by the news from Moscow. Right wing extremists have been used to attack environmentalist protecting the (…)
, by Antifa
In the morning of July, 29 antifascist Alexei Gaskarov was called in for a conversation to the local Internal Affairs Department. From there he was passed on to Extremism Department officers and taken away in the unknown destination. Most of the regulations of the law that determines the (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
On July 30, Maxim Solopov and Alexei Gaskarov, two antifascist activists, were arrested in Moscow without formal charges of any kind. Maxim and Alexei are well-known public spokesmen of the growing movement of young people against neo-Nazi violence, and in recent years they have done much to (…)
, by Antifa, BURANOV Ivan, CHERNYKH Aleksander, KOZENKO Andrey, MASHKIN Sergey
In recent days, the battle to stop the destruction of the forest in the Moscow suburb of Khimki has heated up. Activists have been protesting the building of an $8 million high speed toll highway between Moscow and Petersburg. This highway would destroy beautiful forestland around Moscow. (…)
, by BENJAMIN Alan
July 24, 2010
Dear Friends:
I am writing this letter to ask for your support for the “International Friends of the Leon Trotsky Museum” in Mexico City.
I — along with many others around the world — was asked by the Museum’s new director, Olivia Gall, and by Trotsky’s grandson, Esteban (…)
, by KAGARLITSKY Boris
A new bill has been passed in Russia that will extensively roll back Government funding of education, the arts and social services - by introducing per capita financing - that will punish smaller towns and downgrade quality in the larger ones. When initial reports appeared in the media that a (…)
, by CLÉMENT Karine
At the beginning of 2009 Russian workers took the crisis in a rather passive way, even though in May-July we witnessed a surge of activity, initially in the form of an explosion of street actions and other forms of protest that were fairly uncontrolled and not envisaged by the legislation on the (…)
, by CLÉMENT Karine
There have been an increasing number of demonstrations in various cities in Russia since the beginning of this year. People are rising up to protest against the brutal increase in the cost of living, income and other tax as well as the drop in salaries. Unemployment is also affecting an (…)
, by CHRIKOVA Yevgeniya
The plan to construct a section of the new Moscow-St.Petersburg motorway through the legally-protected Khimki Forest Park will destroy a rare eco-system. Dogged local resistance has turned this into a national, even international issue. But it has not derailed the plan (…)
, by LE BLANC Paul
In response to my critical review of Robert Service’s biography of Trotsky , a reader of the journal Links wrote the following response, with a question and suggestion:
“As usual, a very good article by Paul. I would describe myself as a socialist (or communist) and I think all the usual (…)
, by LE BLANC Paul
A review of: Robert Service. Trotsky: A Biography. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009. 600 pages, including end notes, bibliography, index. $35.00.
Robert Service has written, to great acclaim, a new biography of Leon Trotsky. “Trotsky moved like a bright comet across the (…)
, by LE BLANC Paul
* Simon Pirani, The Russian Revolution in Retreat, 1920-24: Soviet Workers and the New Communist Elite (London/New York: Routledge, 2008), 289 pages. $160.
* Soma Marik, Reinterrogating the Classical Marxist Discourses of Revolutionary Democracy (Delhi: Aakar Books, 2008), 537 pages. $55. (…)
, by PORTER Bernard
Amid all this celebration of the fall of the Berlin Wall twenty years ago, I’m left wondering whether I was the only one to have jumped the other way at the time. It turned me into a Marxist. All my adult life before then I had thought that Marx had been wrong, for example in predicting that (…)
, by RAMONET Ignacio
PARIS, Nov (IPS) It’s been twenty years since the Berlin Wall came down, on November 9, 1989. Today, as capitalism staggers beneath the blows of a historic crisis, what can we say about the intervening two decades? Why have other equally offensive and unacceptable walls not fallen? (…)
Twitter
Facebook