Russia

Car industry disputes, 2005

Submitted by Steven. on Jan 8 2010 16:44

Short roundups of various workers' struggles in the global automobile industry by Prol-Position in 2005.

Update on Car Industry: More strikes

Bolshevik Razverstka and War Communism

Lars T. Lih on the Bolshevik policies of war communism and what they meant for workers and peasants.

Political Testament of Lenin and Bukharin and the Meaning of NEP

NEP-period marketplace.

Lars T. Lih on Lenin, Bukharin and the new economic policy of the Bolsheviks. In PDF format.

Popov, Dimitri Ivanovich, 1892-1921

Submitted by Battlescarred on Jan 4 2010 22:34
Dimitri Popov

A short biography of Dimitri Popov, sailor, Left Socialist Revolutionary and then anarchist and Makhnovist

Dimitri Popov was born in to a peasant family in the village of Kononova in the Klin district of Moscow province. After leaving school at fourteen he worked in the Moscow factories. In 1914 he was called up to active duty in the Baltic Fleet. He may have been in a group of anarchist sailors in spring 1917 but by summer of the same year he had joined the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries.

Sentence of Yuri Mishutkin overturned – funds are needed for the new court

Submitted by S2W on Dec 30 2009 15:56

15th of December of 2009 regional court of Primorsky overturned sentence of anarchist anti-fascist Yuri Mishutkin, who was given a one-year probational sentence for manslaughter due to exceeding necessary limits of self-defence

15th of December of 2009 regional court of Primorsky overturned sentence of anarchist anti-fascist Yuri Mishutkin, who was 12th of October given a one-year probational sentence according to statute 108 part 1 of the Russian criminal codex (manslaughter due to exceeding necessary limits of self-defence).

Russia. At the bottom.

Short article about the situation in Russia. Has been released as an introduction to the ARS magazine "Maximalist".

One must be lazy to not talk of the crisis nowadays. In a song defiantly titled “Anticrisis”, Seva, a popular Russian Internet rapper, even raps about smiling more and taking chances to free ride as the crisis endures.

White Collars & Horny Hands: the revolutionary thought of Waclaw Machajski - Max Nomad

Submitted by Red Marriott on Dec 18 2009 15:29

Nomad describes Machajski's theory of the socialist movement as a bid for power over the working class by the middle class intelligentsia. His critique was based on observations of the legalism and state-capitalist goals of the European Social-Democratic parties of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

In 1938 - 12 years after Machajski's death and his few followers had ceased to have any influence or activity - the USSR's Stalinist regime denounced 'Makhaevism';

What is "Makhaevism"? - Paul Avrich

Submitted by Spassmaschine on Dec 16 2009 00:25

Paul Avrich looks at the life of the Polish theorist and activist, Jan Wacław Machajsk.

When the Short Course history of the Communist party was published in Pravda in 1938, it was accompanied by a decree which emphasized the role of the intelligentsia in the construction of Soviet society.

Vanya Bonecrusher in his own words

Ivan “Vanya Bonecrusher” Khutorskoy was shot in Moscow by an unknown nazi assassin on the 16th of November 2009. This interview with him (where he uses a pseudonym) was published on the punxunite.ru website on the 29th of September this year. Take the time to read it in order to know about this man and his ideas, share it with your friends and translate it.

Talking about nothing

It's 4 a.m. we are... on the air with radio "Modern" and we have a live guest from our series "talking about nothing", the estemed cultural worker, the modest Christophorovich Kostopravov. So... the first question is...

I [emcee]: How did you get into punk? How did it allbegin?

A gentle bonecrusher - The life and death of Ivan Khutorskoy

Submitted by S2W on Nov 17 2009 22:42

Yesterday evening, Monday the 16th of November, 26 year old anti-fascist
Ivan “Vanya Kostolom” Khutorskoy was shot to death at the entrance to
his home at Khabarovsk street in the east side of Moscow; according to
some information with two shots to his head.

Vanya was a great figure in the Russian anti-fascist movement, and I am sure many people will write down their memories of him in thedays, months and years to come. But as of today most of his friends are too angry and too shocked, at the loss of this friend and comrade.