Russian Union Leader Alexei Etmanov Attacked and Threatened with Death

The Fight Is Effective When the Fighters Know How to Defend Themselves
 
On the night of November 8, Alexei Etmanov, the chair of the trade union committee at the Ford-Vsevolozhsk plant, returned home from the second shift. He parked his car in a lot and headed for his house. On Heroes Street three men jumped in [...]

People’s Resistance (Moldova)

Rezistenţa Populară (Moldova)
Rezistenţa Populară/Народное сопротивление (People’s Resistance; henceforth, RP) is a Marxist political movement that conducts popular protest actions and works to help the working class achieve self-identity and unity. The RP is convinced that the world of private entrepreneurs, thieving speculators, private banks, chronic unemployment, and armies of poor people—a world where the rich [...]

Chto Delat Weekly Reader No. 6

Another week, another bundle of articles from our electronic magazine rack. This week’s offerings include: a fabulous interview with David Harvey; a mindblowing analysis of the meaning of class by a Hungarian we’ve never heard of (but probably should have); more reflections on the crisis; an appreciation of Ralph Nader; the dangers of populism in [...]

Who Makes the Nazis, Part II: The Young Guards Declare War on Migrant Laborers in Russia

An Autumnal Anti-Immigrant Exacerbation
Hard on the heels of the Locals (Mestnye) movement, the Young Guards of United Russia (Molodaya Gvardiia Edinoi Rossii — MGER) have joined the anti-immigrant campaign that is now underway in Russia. The expansion of this campaign is a particularly worrisome sign against the backdrop of preparations for November 4th celebrations [i.e., [...]

Peter Watkins: La Commune

David Riff: The Paris Commune as Seen by Nineteenth-Century Television
La Commune by Peter Watkins is probably one of the best films I have ever seen online. It is also one of the longest. In fact, its duration is five and three quarter hours long to be exact, and the film can be found on YouTube [...]

No Country for Old Men: Pensioners Take to the Streets in Barnaul

Massive Street Protests in Barnaul: Unhappy with the Governor’s Actions, Hundreds of Old People Blocked the City’s Main Boulevard
On October 26, traffic was stopped for three hours on Leninsky Prospect, Barnaul’s central boulevard. In terms of the intensity of outrage and format, such spontaneous popular protests have not taken place in the Altai Krai since [...]

Chronicles of Perestroika

Chronicles of Perestroika
This film by Dmitry Vilensky is intended to be viewed before Perestroika Songspiel (see below). Vilensky turned two hours of archive footage into sixteen minutes of video. This footage of demonstrations in Leningrad during perestroika (1987-1991) was provided by the Petersburg Documentary Film Studio. The filmmaker is especially grateful to the unknown cameramen who recorded these [...]

Vlad & Friend Boris: “Song for Sarah (Mrs. Palin)”

Hello Sarah Palin we wrote this song for you because we see you from Russia! Plz respond to our emails!! We like to hear from you!!

Chto Delat Weekly Reader No. 5

More news from the invisible front in the war of all against all. This week’s topics include: Eric Hobsbawm, Paul Virilio, Steven Shaviro, and Rick Kuhn on the world financial crisis; the effects of the crisis in Russia and the government’s attempts to pretend that Russia is an “island of stability”; Sarah Palin as “absolute [...]

The Fascist Regime in the US: Police Nearly Kill Iraq War Vet at Peaceful Protest

This shocking report comes to us via Brian Holmes on the nettime mailing list. Here is how he prefaced it:

Sorry for any cross-posting, but this material from Emily Foreman is important to get out. Despite the good news from the polls we are still living under the boot here in the USA. Poor people’s lives get wasted [...]