El pasado 8 de julio en el edificio de la corte regional deNizhny Novgorod, se realizó una audiencia para hacer una revisión de los testigos y los peritos a participar en el juicio de Ilya Romanov. A pesar de la negativa de los expertos en responder directamente las preguntas de la defensa de Romanov, llegaron a un consenso sobre lo que puede ser considerado un petardo o un artefacto explosivo.
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Nestor Makhno
En los albores de la abolición del despotismo zarista, con la revolución de 1917 se abrieron perspectivas de relaciones sociales nuevas y libres para el mundo del trabajo, hasta entonces bajo el violento yugo del Estado ruso. La noción de una autodeterminación integral, incluyendo una ruptura completa con el Estado ruso, se abrió paso de modo natural entre la población. Aparecieron multitud de grupos que propagaron todo tipo de ideas entre la población ucraniana: cada uno de ellos tenía su propio punto de vista e interpretaba la idea de la autodeterminación de acuerdo a sus intereses fraccionales. Pero las masas trabajadoras de Ucrania no se identificaron con ninguno de estos grupos ni se unieron a ellos.
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L’anarchismo ci prendeva per intiero perché ci chiedeva tutto, ci offriva tutto: non c’era un solo angolo della vita che non rischiarasse, almeno così ci sembrava. Si poteva essere cattolici, protestanti, liberali, radicali, socialisti, anche sindacalisti senza nulla cambiare del
la propria vita, e per conseguenza della vita: bastava dopo tutto leggere il giornale corrispondente; a rigore frequentare il caffè degli uni o degli altri. Intessuto di contraddizioni, dilaniato in tendenze e sottotendenze, l’anarchismo esigeva anzitutto l’accordo tra gli atti e le parole (cosa che in verità esigono tutti gli idealismi, ma che tutti dimenticano, addormentandosi):
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Upon the outskirts of the old capital of Russia, just where that half Asiatic city, immense as the antique Babylon or Nineveh, is at last lost in the distance, and its houses, becoming fewer, are scattered among the market gardens and fields, and the immense uncultivated plains which surround it on all sides, as the sea surrounds an islet; on these outskirts is a little cottage, one story high, old, grimy with age, and half in ruins.
Although in a capital, this poor dwelling is not out of harmony with the district. The other houses round about have the same mean and rough aspect; and all this part of the immense city resembles a little village lost in the plains of Russia, rather than a district of one of the largest capitals in Europe. In summer, grass grows in the streets, so high that a cavalry regiment might exercise there; and in the rainy autumn, these streets are full of puddles and miniature lakes, in which the ducks and geese swim about.
There is no movement. From time to time a passerby is seen, and if he does not belong to the district the boys stare at him until be is out of sight. If by chance a carriage, or a hired vehicle, arrives in these parts, all the shutters, green, red, and blue, are hurriedly opened, and girls and women peep forth, curious to see such an extraordinary sight.
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Continue reading Court hearings on the case of political prisoner’s Ilya Romanov to start June 16
Actions to demand the release Alekxander Kolchenko will take place in France from June 27 to 30, 2015. Demonstraions and meetings will be organised in Paris, Lyon, Strasbourg, Marseille and Biarritz. We strongly encourage you to join the solidarity campaign and to do something in support of Alexander Kolchenko from June 30 to July 5.
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The victorious revolution of the workers and peasants in 1917 was legally established in the Bolshevik calendar as the October Revolution. There is sane truth in this, but it is not entirely exact. In October 1917 the workers and peasants of Russia surmounted a colossal obstacle to the development of their Revolution. They abolished the nominal power of the capitalist class, but even before that they achieved something of equal revolutionary importance and perhaps even more fundamental. By taking the economic power from the capitalist class, and the land from the large owners in the countryside, they achieved the right to free and uncontrolled work in the towns, if not the total control of the factories. Consequently, it was well before October that the revolutionary workers destroyed the base of capitalism. All that was left was the superstructure.
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Mikhail Shlyapnikov, a farmer in the isolated Russian village of Kolionovo, thought he had found a way to make economic transactions in the cash-strapped settlement easier: He began printing kolions, exchange notes to be used by villagers instead of cash.
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Victor Yarros (1897)
The individualistic or philosophical anarchists favor the abolition of ‘the State’ and government of man, by man. They seek to bring about a state of perfect freedom of anarchy.
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Voline
The Russian Revolution has just entered its thirteenth year, a lapse of time sufficient for a social upheaval, even one of this scale, to prove itself.
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