Our choice is self-government

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Original title: "Our choice is self-government – anarchists on a march in Warsaw 26.01"

On January 26, we joined the march of the Belarusian diaspora in Warsaw to protest against the performance called “Elections” held today in Belarus. Our disagreement concerns not only Lukashenko falsifications, not only farce at polling stations this year. We do not agree to manage the country in this way: once every 5 years, choosing a leader.

Anarchism on the periphery: struggle under emigration and war

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This text was written by a small group of Russian anarchists. We are not in Russia and are actively engaged in revolutionary struggle in another country.In this article we examine the current situation of the anarchist movement in the Russian Federation and in emigration, draw conclusions about its readiness for revolutionary events, and share our thoughts on what should be done now.

Destabilization of Russia as a way to freedom in Belarus

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If you ask Belarusian anarchists today what they think about Russian society and the Russian anarchist movement in particular, you are unlikely to hear positive responses. And although the gap between the movements in BUR (Belarus, Ukraine, Russia) existed before 2022 and even before 2014, once the full-scale invasion began, the differences in priorities had a very strong impact on inter-regional relations. I don’t want to offend anyone, but the anarchist movement in the Russian Empire today is in a complete shambles.

Dogma in text format – anarchists on the war in Ukraine

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A year and a half after the original dogma podcast series, we have converted the audio to text format. This is a collection of interviews with anarchist activists from Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Poland, Germany, France, Greece and Finland. Inside you will find different views of anarchists on the war in Ukraine and how anarchist movements in different parts of Europe reacted to it. Original conversations happened in January-February 2023, but since then many points remained the same.

Was any money stolen from Operation Solidarity?

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Almost 2 years after the collapse of Operation Solidarity and the formation of the Solidarity Collectives, we decided to take a closer look at the story of the disappearance of the money and put a stop to this conversation. The reason for writing this article was the repeated discussions of the members of our collective about this story and the lack of a full description of the situation in the network for those who did not follow the organization at the time of its split.

Conflicts and anarchists

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We were prompted to write this critical text by a situation that happened recently in social networks. In brief: we were invited to an anarchist group, where there was a person X., who was responsible for some pretty big problems within the anarchist movement. As a result of a conversation about X. we were removed from the chat room because we were considered to be engaging in “policing” and “blackmail”.

Belarusian anarchists took part in the congress in St. Imier

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Members of the Pramen collective, activists of the ABC-Belarus and other Belarusian anarchists took part in the international anarchist congress in St. Imier, dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the creation of the Anarchist International. The congress itself was attended by more than 4,000 people from different parts of the world, including South America, Africa and Asia.

Anarchists at the back of history?

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For many years the anarchist movement in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine has participated in major political events with varying degrees of success. Maidan in Ukraine, protests against slavery and 2020 in Belarus, actions in Russia – wherever the struggle against authoritarianism began, anarchists were at the forefront. The same situation developed when Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Many comrades from various parts of the former Soviet Union took up arms to fight against Putin’s inhumane regime. Today there are more than a hundred anarchists and anti-fascists fighting in Ukraine, scattered across different units and sections of the front. Some have been able to create their own small fighting group of comrades and friends, while others fight on their own in the ranks of the ZSU.

“Now it’s definitely time to act”– interview with a member of the Anti-Authoritarian Squad

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After the war began, many of our comrades in Kiev became either volunteers or members of the Anti-Authoritarian Squad within the Territorial Defense. Now the squad is mainly engaged in training and guard duty. When the enemy was still in the Kyiv region, the guys went to frontline positions to help the Ukrainian Armed Forces (AFU) with surveillance from drones, participated in transporting refugees through the green corridor, and went out on calls from citizens about sabotage groups.

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