Return Address: Moscow

Early 1980's publication of "The Group for the Establishing Trust" between the USSR and the US. Issued by those from the USSR living in New York City.

From the archives of New York Workers Solidarity Alliance

Submitted by syndicalist on August 29, 2016

This scan and posting is dedicated to the memory of anarchist and all around trouble maker Bob McGlynn who did so much to foster solidarity and contact between East-West activists, political prisoners and movements over three decades.

Initial 1980's efforts by exiled USSR and North American disarmament, peace, libertarian socialist, anarchist non-affiliated and syndicalist at fostering ties between those in the East and West. Not an anarchist project, this initial effort lead to others with were more libertarian in orientation.

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syndicalist

7 years 8 months ago

Submitted by syndicalist on August 30, 2016

In Bob's own

In Bob's own words:

... in 1983, this crew joined with Soviet exiles in the US—particularly Sergei Batovrin—to form the New York Trust Group (NYTG), a sister organization to the Moscow Trust Group (MTG), a semi-aboveground and much persecuted organization that opposed nuclear weapons. (Following the Moscow lead, other Trust Groups formed elsewhere n the USSR.) Some in the committee were also members of the New York Anti-Nuclear Group and the Brooklyn Anti-Nuclear Group (BANG), such as myself. The NYTG and BANG helped pioneer putting the struggles of the subjugated within the Soviet empire on the agenda of the anti-nuclear movement in the US. The Brooklyn group's newsletter BANG Notes was the first anti-nuclear periodical in the West to chronicle parallel Eastern scenes. http://countervortex.org/node/13923

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