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Red Fascism (1934) – Pogrom (1934) – Letter from Russia (1930)

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Red Fascism

I’ve just been reading an extract from a letter from our valiant comrade A[lfonso] Petrini [1] who is in the USSR, under banishment. There I came upon the following lines: “(…) They’re locking us all up, one by one. Real revolutionaries may not enjoy freedom in Russia. Freedom of the press and freedom of speech have been wiped out, so there is no difference between Stalin and Mussolini.”
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“Prison united all of us”

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Interview with anarchist prisoners in the so-called “Bolotnaya Case”, former sailor Alexei Polikhovich, 22 (pictured), and historian Stepan Zimin, 21. They are amongst the many people charged with participation in the May 6, 2012 clashes with police during an opposition rally in Moscow’s Bolotnaya Square. Both face a sentence of five-and-a-half year in penal colony, having spent over a year in pre-trial detention.
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Historia del Ejército Negro anarquista en la Guerra Civil Rusa

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El Ejército Negro fue un grupo armado de anarquistas con base mayormente ucraniana y uno de los cuatro ejércitos que participaron en la Guerra Civil rusa, donde combatieron además, bolcheviques integrando el Ejército Rojo, pro-occidentales, conservadores y mencheviques agrupados en el Ejército Blanco, y nacionalistas que formaban el Ejército Verde.
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ABC-Moscow: Repressions summary for March-April 2014

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We continue to publish news about repressions against anarchists,
antifascists and social activists and about the obstacles we face from
the side of police state. In February, March and April issue you can
read about Maidan ghost, letters from the prisons and senseless trials.
If you recognize that we’ve missed anything or you are informed about
other cases of repressions, let us know by writing to address abc-msk <>
riseup.net.
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Some Nihilists I Have Met

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by Voltairine de Cleyre

[From Worthington’s Illustrated Monthly Magazine (Hartford CT), October 1893]

The word nihilist is so generally associated with darkness, secrecy, dynamite, assassination and blood, that had someone whispered five minutes before the encounter, “You are about to meet a Russian nihilist,” I should, no doubt, have hastily retreated to the shelter of law-abiding domiciles, far from the dirty, tortuous, downtown quarter, where, amidst a labyrinth of alleys and deceitful little streets that mockingly led against walls, and then turned back into one another, I found myself one snowy afternoon, picking my way somewhat disgustedly with no very clear idea concerning my exact whereabouts.
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