The St. Petersburg Times
Issue #1524 (86), Friday, November 6, 2009
Antifascists Beaten, Then Arrested
By Sergey Chernov
Staff Writer
Four antifascist activists were detained by the police after being beaten by nationalists at a “Russian March” rally in St. Petersburg on People’s Unity Day, a recently introduced public holiday, on Wednesday. They were charged with disorderly conduct and forced [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘antifa’
November 6, 2009
“National Unity Day”: Antifascists Beaten by Fascists, Then Arrested by Police
February 9, 2009
“In This Building They Decide Who Lives and For How Long”
Honoring the memory of the murdered lawyer Stanislav Markelov and the journalist and anarchist Anastasia Baburova has very quickly become a matter of low-scale partisan warfare in Russia. The police have been quick to interfere with or altogether stamp out spontaneous (i.e., “unsanctioned”) collective expressions of grief and outrage. First, there was the antifa/anarchist march [...]
July 27, 2008
Shadowboxing (Petersburg Antifa)
Anna Rudnitskaya
Shadowboxing
Russian Reporter 25 (55) 3 July 2008
It is hard to believe that the war against fascism is once again being fought on the streets of Russia’s cities. This war is waged by young people who for some reason don’t like the sound of the slogan, “Beat the blacks [i.e., people from the Caucasus region [...]
February 25, 2008
BASTA! Special Issue: RASH, “We Have to Take People to the Next Level”
This is the fifth in a series of translations of the articles in BASTA!, a special Russian-only issue of Chto Delat that addresses such pressing issues as the fight against racism and facism, the new Russian labor movement, the resistance to runaway “development” in Petersburg, the prospects for student self-governance and revolt, the potential [...]
