WORLD WORLDWIDE RUSSIA News Journal Update - (en) Russia, avtonom: By Their Fruits You Will Know Them: Trends in Order and Chaos, Episode 106 (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 1. Responses to comments ---- Since we have copyright trends and today I make

them, I would like to give feedback on some comments that relate specifically to
my entries. Firstly, thank you for your support, I'm glad that my rather husky
voice is liked by those who call it inspiring, or compare it with the voice of
Alexandra Kollontai, although of course there is a difference. But I'm trying.
---- Criticism about the microphone, well.... Well, no, comrade major, I
understand that you are supposed to listen or even watch at work, but you can
also read. We also publish texts. Maybe you will even think about the content,
repent and start a new life? No, well, really, well, is it really a little girl,
or a boy, when she watched or watched a movie about the war as a child, she
really dreamed, dreamed of becoming a fascist policeman? And How? Pride takes for
its work - to read denunciations, to look for underground workers to send them to
torture? Or did you think when you went to the police that you would catch
criminals? If you thought so, then I will even tell you the name of the leader of
the largest criminal group, on whose conscience many of the dead, including
children. Maybe you yourself know Vovan Pitersky? Well, why then do you drag
people into jail, sometimes they wear flowers to monuments, sometimes they write
that war is a crime? In general, isn't it time to think?

Coming back to the comments: to the perplexity that the Bible is quoted in the
anarchist text, I will answer that when I prepare the issue of "Trends", I quote
it quite often. Why? Well, first of all, I know very well. Secondly, I think that
in addition to any harmful, you can find useful things there. I have always been
interested in the story of how a certain pacifist preacher managed to gain so
many supporters that even the local clergy were so excited that they had to turn
to the occupation authorities for help in a demonstration execution. Actually,
Pontius Pilate was the representative of these same authorities. And now, it
would seem, after the crucifixion - this is the end of the fairy tale, and
whoever listened - well done, but after all, the disciples of this very pacifist
suffered to preach further and, despite all the persecution, quite successfully.

Therefore, I consider some of the tips for spreading agitation given in the New
Testament to be quite successful and not lost their relevance. Well, for example,
from the Gospel of Matthew: "Do not give anything holy to dogs and do not throw
your pearls before swine, so that they do not trample it under their feet and,
turning, do not tear you to pieces." (Matt. 7:6) In other words - "Don't feed the
troll!" (With)

So don't worry, as an anarchist and feminist, I'm not going to campaign for
Christianity. I have already been there and I confirm that it is an authoritarian
and patriarchal cult.

At the same time, I confirm that the organization called the ROC and claiming a
monopoly on Christianity, in fact, has nothing to do with it. You can read the
New Testament and look for yourself where Jesus calls for war and murder. And if
the Russian Orthodox Church lives according to the Old Testament, then they are
Pharisees, and what does the teaching of a certain Jesus called Christ have to do
with it?

I also want to remind everyone who listens to us that "Trends" are written by
different people and these are reflections of the author's view. And it is
precisely this opportunity that is important and interesting to us. When some
like-minded people think and act in exactly the same way, it already smacks of a
sect or hmm ... a Bolshevik party, for example. And we are anarchists. And we are
united by a common goal. And we never tire of repeating it.

2. About criticism
This week, as in the previous ones, there have been quite a few scandals within
the liberal opposition, who owes what to whom and who does not owe what. Among
the anarchists, too, there is no unity, and there never was. And some are just
looking for an excuse to throw another accusation against other anarchists. Well,
maybe enough to find out whose anarchism is more anarchist?

We remind you again that there is a war going on. And our friends and comrades
are dying in this war. With the same Dmitry Petrov, I personally discussed this
problem more than once. It was not in vain that Dima took the idea of "takmil" -
a time for weekly criticism and self-criticism from the Kurdish Apostles (and
they took it from the Maoists). Criticism is important, but self-criticism is
also important, and this is what some of the "most important anarchists" forget
about. Moreover, in the post-Soviet space, the culture of dispute and criticism
is completely absent, as an instrument of comradely relations. When it is a way
to help see and change something, and not to humiliate, insult and destroy.

Some anarchists manage to go even further in non-constructiveness, accusing other
anarchists only on the grounds that they are from Russia, and some kind of slave
nation lives there. You know, anarcho-Nazism is the same anarchism as
anarcho-etatism, for example.
So those who divide people into nations, and among these nations there are some
nations of slaves, then either you are not anarchists, or set aside the skull and
ruler for measurements.

I write about this so much because, unfortunately, such accusations are also
trends. How much effort could be saved in order to do business. And there are a
lot of things. And when the war is over, there will be no less of them. And
personally, while observing the split in Russian society, I foresee a civil war.
And anarchists in it are still in the vast minority. If you do not learn to look
for allies among other anarchists and oppositionists who also oppose Putin's
fascism, then everything will be bad both in the Resistance and in the further
struggle, since social justice will not come by itself. So let's remember who is
our main enemy for this historical period, not forgetting what makes us
anarchists, and continuing to remain so.

3. Don't despair
Here, a left-wing Finn I know writes to me: "Nina, this is fucked up! Forgive me
for swearing, but I have no other words! Nina, my wife is Russian, and we have
children. Where is the Russia that I loved? What will our children think? This
Finn with his eldest son signed up for local defense a year ago. He helps
Ukrainian refugees and Russian political emigrants. But it already seems to him
that the war is forever. And I convinced him that it wasn't. For a long time, but
not forever. And that Ukraine will win. He is already winning. And I told him
what people in Russia are doing, who may not be able to kill Putin, but are
resisting. And even after leaving Russia due to political persecution, they
continue to act to hasten the end of the Putin regime.

However, the regime itself is also doing a good job, hastening its death, but,
unfortunately, involving an increasing number of victims in it.

4. Locked riot police
This week, the trial of Vitaly Koltsov continued, who threw a Molotov cocktail
into a paddy wagon on Revolution Square on March 2, 2022. A man of liberal views,
a father of three children, whom all his friends knew as kind, responsible and
not prone to violence, made a rather symbolic gesture from the impossibility of
finding a way to express his protest in any other way. From the press releases
that you can see on the page created by Vitaly's friends, you can find out that
one bottle flew off the wall of the paddy wagon and set fire to only a piece of
asphalt, and the other broke the glass, but the riot police quickly extinguished
the fire, it took less than a minute. At the time of the throw, the paddy wagons
were empty, and the riot police themselves were on the street.

That's what they said at first. At the next hearing, however, the two suddenly
remembered that they were inside and resting on the bus, locked in the detention
unit. It is clear that Vitaly is going to be convicted not for a symbolic act,
but for an attempt on the riot police.

And in such cases, I always wonder if the prosecutors who demand terms for
robbery and murder for a symbolic act or for an anti-war post understand that
they provoke people to think, what, and what is the actual difference? A live
riot policeman, a dead riot policeman, one dead riot policeman or twelve dead
riot policemen, the term is the same in any case. But I suspect that the Russian
security forces are generally incapable of calculating the logical chain and
thinking about the consequences. Otherwise, they would not have gotten involved
in a war against Ukraine.

Before taking a desperate step, Vitaly published this poem.

5. Krasnoyarsk anti-fascists
Despite the oddities of so-called justice, there is some good news. According to
the channel of the Anarchist Black Cross - Irkutsk, on May 18, in the Oktyabrsky
District Court of Krasnoyarsk, a verdict was passed in the case of Krasnoyarsk
anti-fascists. Krasnoyarsk residents Danil Ivanov and Ilya Vinogradov were given
5 years of probation each, 4 of which were probationary. The court sentenced
Denis Kozyrev to 3 years and 6 months probation.

According to lawyer Daniil, the case against the guys was initiated after
listening to and reading correspondence on the VKontakte social network.

What I want to say about this: firstly, donate to the ABC, help political
prisoners. And once again we warn everyone: Get out of contact! Drop some!

6. Moscow, Savelovskaya
On May 19, news came that in Moscow, near the Savelovskaya metro station,
agitators were attacked for serving in the Russian army under a contract. The
attacker smashed their point and scattered the agitation. Unfortunately, the guy
was detained by the police. I must say that I have already heard the story of how
much earlier such a campaign center disappeared and did not appear again near the
metro, where it was out of sight of the security cameras.

7. "Erdogan is a mustachioed cockroach"
 From foreign news - the participation of the current Turkish President Erdogan
in the elections. Traditionally, it has no support in big cities and relies on
the rural majority. But now there is a chance that he will lose his throne. Let
me remind you that Erdogan sent troops to the Kurdish canton of Afrin, which is
located on the territory of Syria, and also sent troops to the territory of
Rojava, allegedly to fight terrorism.
There is now a second round of elections. Since Erdogan relies on all sorts of
"spiritual bonds" and conservatism, in his election campaign he decided to accuse
his opponents of being LGBT. "We know that Mr. Kemal Kiliçdaroglu is from LGBT.
The entire IYI (Good Party) party is also LGBT, the HDP (Peoples' Democratic
Party, created by the Kurds) is LGBT, they are all LGBT. And all those who sat at
that table and prophesied greatness are also from these," Erdogan said. Well,
just like Putin, who also likes to scare that if Russia loses the war, then not
just NATO will come, but with lesbians. And also Erdogan is afraid that the
opposition will impose sanctions against the Russian so-called Federation.

And now, some pseudo-leftists, licking the president's ass (by the way, this
phrase of Yuri Shevchuk is a year old) and supporting Russian fascism with all
their might, write that Erdogan needs to be supported. Here, Oleg Yasinsky, for
example, who wrote a lot about Latin America and knows well about which dictator
it was said "he, of course, is a son of a bitch, but he is our son of a bitch,"
writes:

"Erdogan's electoral victory would give noticeable stability to the current
instability. He is definitely a scoundrel, but the victory of the bright-faced
oppositionist, on whom the US and NATO staked, would be a disaster and the price
of this in human lives would be incomparably higher.

...blah blah blah

Survival instinct suggests that the current salvation is in uniting against the
main monster. Everything else (sincere, just, untimely) should be postponed for
the time being. Otherwise, there is no chance at all."

In fact, the same thing: "son of a bitch", but for people like Yasinsky "ours".
Moreover, I suspect that Yasinsky's claims to Erdogan are not for the left and
the Kurds, but for the "bayraktars" delivered to Ukraine.

And I remind you that you should never expect something good from the
communists-sovkodrocherov. They will always support the most disgusting reaction.
They will lick the most vile dictatorship. It is thanks to them that at the word
"communism" people shudder, imagining not a society of social justice, in which
there will be neither wars nor oppression, but Stalinist camps and mockery of
human dignity.

8. Therefore, by their fruits you will know them.
What can we say about the relationship between communists and anarchists. It's
May, so let's remember the "May events" in Barcelona. On May 3, 1937, Eusebio
Rodríguez Salas, head of the Barcelona police (a branch of the "Communist Party
of Spain"), ordered the Civil and Assault Guards to occupy the central telephone
exchange in Plaza Catalunya in Barcelona, which had been controlled by the
anarchists since the beginning of the civil war. This marked the beginning of
street fighting, which only ended when the anarchist leaders persuaded the people
of Barcelona to cease fire in the name of anti-fascist unity. Then the
repressions organized by the communists began.

The current communists do not like to remember this, or they lie just as
selflessly, as they always used to do. "Where is Andreas Nin? He left for
Berlin!" they joked about the leader of the Marxist anti-Stalinist party POUM,
which supported the anarchists. In fact, he was kidnapped and tortured in order
to get a "confession" that the POUM was allegedly in cahoots with the Nazis.
Unable to break, Andreas Nin was secretly killed.

Now the Spanish communists are demanding not to give Ukraine weapons, their
representatives willingly pose for photographs with Russian ambassadors,
expressing their support for the war and Putin. They also spread lies that
allegedly the Russian language was banned on the territory of Ukraine, that
Zelensky burned people in the House of Trade Unions, and similar nonsense. They
haven't changed. And if suddenly some communist statesman finds himself on the
same side of the barricades with you, always expect a stab in the back from him,
no matter what ideals he talks about. As you can see, he can put ideals aside.

Not everyone who calls himself a communist or anti-fascist is actually one. And
not even every anarchist. And how to distinguish? Well, I can't resist another
quotation, it's painfully true that it is said: "Beware of false prophets who
come to you in sheep's clothing, but inside they are ravenous wolves. You will
know them by their fruits. Do they gather grapes from thorns, or figs from
thistles? So every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A
good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. Every tree
that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. So by their
fruits you will know them." Matthew 7:15-20

The fruits of Putinism are clearly visible. Anyone who supports him supports
fascism, no matter what he hides behind.

Well, that's all for today! We remind you that in "Trends of Order and Chaos" the
participants of "Autonomous Action" and other authors give anarchist assessments
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Issue prepared by Nina.T

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