#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #RUSSIA #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) #Russia, avtonom: The meat grinder of war has come to the white collars: Trends in Order and Chaos, episode 61 (July 3) (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Hello! Today is Sunday, July 3rd and we continue our podcast "Trends of Order and

Chaos". This is episode 61. Here are the highlights of the past week's agenda.
---- 1. Mobilization of sales managers ---- In the previous episode of Trends, we
talked about how the workers of the Ural Compressor Plant are not paid,
explaining this by the fact that " in the Great Patriotic War, no one asked about
their salary ." And now we are witnessing a new radical development of this
discourse. ---- On June 30, the government of the Russian Federation sent a bill
to the Duma under the interesting title " On Amendments to Certain Legislative
Acts of the Russian Federation on the Issues of Supporting the Armed Forces of
the Russian Federation, Other Troops, Military Formations and Bodies in
Conducting Counter-Terrorist and Other Operations Outside the Territory of the
Russian Federation " .

In fact, this is permission for state authorities to force private offices (well,
that is, business) to work in the interests of the army and special services. The
explanatory note explicitly states that "In the context of the RF Armed Forces...
conducting counter-terrorist and other operations outside the territory of the
Russian Federation, in particular a special military operation in the territories
of the Donetsk People's Republic, the Lugansk People's Republic and Ukraine,
there is a short-term increased need for the repair of weapons and military
equipment and provision of material and technical means.That is, no one hides
that everything - the economy is being transferred to a military footing. The
"special operation" to take Kyiv in three days failed completely, we need to
prepare for a protracted war. At the same time, the Labor Code is being changed
so that employees can be forced to work after hours, including at night.
Pretending that "everything is as usual" will no longer work for anyone.

It is clear that at state and near-state enterprises it was impossible to refuse
the state order anyway. I wonder how the Kremlin is going to extend the effect of
all this to private business. Well, that is, for example, some aluminum plant of
Deripaska: it will be very interesting to see how the Russian government comes
there and orders aluminum to be sent to the Ministry of Defense, and not for
export, and lose a lot of money on this. Or how data analysts from Sber research
laboratories are forced to plow at night for free and mark up datasets for facial
recognition systems for Ukrainian prisoners of war - because the FSB ordered. Any
white-collar workers and sales managers are now at risk. All this will give rise
to powerful contradictions between the elements of capitalism and feudalism in
the political and economic system of Russia.

In general, the sanctions and the general degradation of the Russian economy are
making themselves felt. They have already banned the export of rice, rice groats
and feed amino acids to any countries except supposedly "allied" Belarus, etc.
Apparently, because they themselves are not enough. Most likely, Putin and
company are dreaming of something like the mobilization of Soviet industry during
the Second World War. Frankly, we are not fans of the behavior of the USSR during
the last world massacre, but the imperialist aggression of the Russian Federation
against Ukraine does not even amount to such a "people's war, holy war." So it is
unlikely that people will show such enthusiasm.

2. Stormy enthusiasm of Russians
Indeed, according to a recent HeadHunter survey, 38% of Russians have difficulty
making ends meet at all , and another 40% believe that they do not have enough
salaries to cover basic expenses. These are workers, doctors, and other
specialties. Half of the population of the Russian Federation spends their income
mainly on food. All signs of a degrading economy are evident.

Under these conditions, it is not surprising that (as we predicted) even ordinary
people, not activists, are beginning to realize that the war clearly does not
help their well-being. For example, in Buryatia, the wives of the military
demanded that the head of the region return their husbands home . These are still
timid and inconsistent protests, but their number will grow. If you are in
non-capital Russian cities - closely follow such actions, join them, cheer, share
experience, spread anarchist methods of organization.

But in Russia there are not only peaceful exits to the streets. Surprisingly,
June 29 is still quite officially celebrated as "the day of partisans and
underground fighters." And it was on June 29 that 14 freight cars derailed in
Transbaikalia . Traffic on the Trans-Siberian Railway was stopped, and this, for
a moment, is the largest railway line in the world. It connects the western and
eastern parts of Russia.

We do not know the reason for the derailment of the wagons, but some partisan
movements (for example, "Stop the Wagons") have already claimed responsibility
and declared that this was an act of struggle against the military aggression of
the Russian Federation. And I must say that the railway tracks are indeed an
extremely important element of the Russian military machine. And extremely
vulnerable.

3. War straw chopper
Everyone already knows that on June 29, the Russian army launched a missile
attack on a shopping center in Kremenchug. 18 people were killed and 20 more were
missing. If the collapse of several boxcars prevents the delivery of new murder
weapons to the front, is it worth pitying these cars? The question is rhetorical.
The answer to all such questions was already given a hundred years ago by the
great revolutionary poet Velimir Khlebnikov in his "Straw Cutter of War":

Those who are on scooters

Ride given

In glass tents

Hear the howl

human beef

Slaughter and blue cattle.

"Where are my sons?" -

A howl rushes out the window.

Sons!

Where did you fertilize

Page powder?

Are these legs, are the ribs hanging on the bushes?

The old mother shakes her head.

Straw chopper war

Rural Russia

Draws into the gills.

"Shit! Run from the fields to the huts, "-

The dying brave cries.

Through the glass of the scooter

In the ears of rich scooter riders,

Untouchable war,

Rushing: "Where are my sons?"

 From a humpbacked furry hut.

Russian meat

Export forge!

Became Russia

Huge signboard.

And on her

Fat finger outstretched

World ruble.

"More, more

Ord

In the trenches of Poland

To the mountains of Galicia!

The planer of war is plowing, scrape,

Russian meat,

Fluttering in the capital.

Lots of shavings -

Dead people!

Monster steamboats

With frozen corpses

The sea is dug with screws,

Howling at the pier

Waiting in line.

  No sons!

There are no fathers!

Daughter look wild

Looks and sees

Eyeless, mouthless sack

With a white grin

In a familiar coat.

He was a birth father

In a distant hut.

Breathing badly

He wheezes: "Bread, daughter ..."

4. Bad news for the Kurds
We have already talked about how Turkey, as a member of NATO, has blocked the
entry of Sweden and Finland because they give shelter to activists of the PKK and
other Kurdish liberation movements.

Well, on June 28, these countries agreed to cooperate with Turkey in the fight
against the PKK. In response, Turkey kindly allowed Sweden and Finland to join
NATO. In practice, this means that 1) these countries will lift the arms embargo
on Turkey, 2) Kurdish activists hiding in Scandinavia are under a real threat of
extradition right into the clutches of Erdogan. Now Turkey is demanding the
extradition of 33 people, but this list will obviously grow.

Turkey considers "terrorists" all Kurdish movements, including semi-anarchist
regions like Rojava. Now it will become much more difficult for them to receive
international support. So, paradoxically, the desire of Sweden and Finland to
protect themselves from one dictatorship (Russia) turns into the strengthening of
another dictatorship (Turkey). And this is an inevitable trap of interactions
between states. As Peter Gelderloos writes:

"States inevitably create wars and conflicts because their own interests always
conflict with the interests of other states. They think they are protecting
themselves, but in reality they are all locked in a seemingly hopeless situation
in which there are very few options - either try to conquer the world, either
submit to another state that has a better chance of conquering the world, or fall
apart. That's why we don't give a damn about the interests of states, and instead
we seek to destroy them all."

5. Bloodshed in Karakalpakstan
In Uzbekistan, they are trying to amend the Constitution, removing the
sovereignty of Karakalpakstan, and its right to secede from the country. People
took to the streets of Nukus, the capital of Karakalpakstan, there were clashes
with the police, several dozen deaths are reported.

The President of Uzbekistan promised not to make amendments to the Constitution
that angered the inhabitants of Karakalpakstan, but now a state of emergency has
been introduced in the region for a month. Given the traditions of the
post-Soviet republics, this means that we should expect brutal repression and
complete blocking of any communication, including the Internet. So, Kazakhstan,
Gorno-Badakhshan, and now Uzbekistan. For several decades now we have been
witnessing the process of disintegration, first of the Russian and then of the
Soviet empire. And often it is accompanied by bloody violence on the part of
those same post-Soviet authorities. Each time, these are points of bifurcation -
protests can lead to the strengthening of dictatorships, or they can lead to
their collapse and the establishment of more human political regimes. Or even
semi-anarchist, as happened in Kurdistan. We can influence this if we are active.

6 . Trial of Pavel Krisevich
On July 5, the trial of libertarian actionist Pavel Krisevich was to begin in the
Tverskoy District Court of Moscow . However, in the end, the trial was postponed,
the date is still unknown .

In any case, when the court is nevertheless appointed, come support Paul and
write letters to him!

Recall that he is behind bars for a performance - shooting himself in the head
with a fake pistol on Red Square. He did this on June 11 last year and in a sense
anticipated the current war.

7 . Zashkvar DPR
A little funny. After the Moscow government renamed the square in front of the US
embassy "the square of the Donetsk People's Republic," the residents of the
embassy decided to continue the exchange of symbolic courtesies. A rainbow flag
of support for LGBT rights now flies over the embassy .

In principle, this is quite logical: gay pride weeks are traditionally held in
many countries now, rainbow flags can be seen on the streets of many European and
American cities. But here is a special case. Given the total homophobia of the
Russian, and even more so the Donetsk authorities, it is difficult to even
imagine what they experience when they see a rainbow flag over the "DNR square".
It is possible that some of the big Russian or Donbass bigwigs are now tempted to
repeat Krisevich's action with live ammunition. Well, hardly anyone will be sorry.

Well, that's all for today! We remind you that in "Trends of Order and Chaos" the
participants  of " Autonomous Action "  give anarchist assessments of current
events. Listen to us on  Youtube ,   SoundCloud  and other platforms, visit our
website  avtonom.org!

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